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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Over the past several years, Missouri voters have amended the state constitution to create abortion rights, legalize marijuana and sports betting and expand Medicaid healthcare coverage for low-income adults. None of those initiatives would have passed under a ballot measure getting decided by voters Tuesday.

The Horace Jackson Legacy Scholarship, named for the Riverside Unified School District’s first Black full-time principal, was founded in 2022 by North High School alumni, according to a news release. Jackson served at North High School from 1970 to 1976. Since its founding, the scholarship has been awarded to 14 North High School graduates, according to the news release. The scholarship supports students attending community college.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A strengthening El Nino has already broken records for intensity at its early stages, and it likely will spark even more wild weather worldwide as it grows, “adding fuel to a planet already on fire,” United Nations officials warned Friday.

DETROIT (AP) — The jokes practically wrote themselves as an eclectic group of progressive pastors, imams and a rabbi walked into a room, finding their seats around a table to talk about religion and politics. Though there was no shortage of levity, a sense of urgency filled the Detroit meeting room as Abdul El-Sayed, a former gubernatorial candidate who is running as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, began speaking about how his Muslim faith informs his progressive views.

By The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate announced Friday that he would give up his position after six GOP incumbents who opposed President Donald Trump on his congressional redistricting push in the state lost their primaries. Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray drew the ire of Trump in December when he voted against the redistricting plan after saying for weeks that it didn’t have enough support to pass.

The Disneyland resort reopened three rides in July and will bring back two more attractions in August and another in September following seasonal refurbishments during the busy summer season. Matterhorn Bobsleds and King Arthur Carrousel reopened in July and Haunted Mansion and Main Street Cinema will return in August following standard refurbishments at Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. The new Soarin’ Across America debuted in July.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. DUXBURY, Mass. (AP) — Jurors walked through the Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, a rare visit Friday that let them see firsthand the place where an outwardly ordinary family life unraveled into tragedy.

Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices and investigate businesses themselves. Consumer protection work, long a growing focus of state AGs from both parties, has ramped up considerably more in the past two years, legal experts say.

California elections need a speed boost, a state nonprofit that works to improve the election process says — and that may come in the form of shortening the time voters have to fix issues with their ballot. In California, every registered voter is mailed a ballot about a month before Election Day, and while voters have myriad ways to return or cast their ballots, most choose to mail them back.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis across political and religious lines are worried about the weakening connection with younger Jewish Americans — who, according to a recent AP-NORC poll, tend to consider support for Israel less crucial to their Jewish identity than older adults. “It’s extremely important to us,” said Itai Nixon, who leads the diaspora department for Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs.