NEWS OF THE DAY
From Across the Nation
1 Teachers strike: West Virginia’s striking teachers cheered, sang and wept joyfully Tuesday as lawmakers acted to end a nine-day classroom walkout, ceding them 5 percent pay hikes that are also being extended to all state workers. A huge crowd of teachers packing the Capitol jumped up and down, chanted “We love our kids!” The settlement came on the ninth day of a crippling strike that had idled hundreds of thousands of students, forced parents to scramble for child care and cast a spotlight on government dysfunction in one of the poorest states in the nation.
2 Porn star suit: A porn star who has said she had sex with President Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to invalidate a nondisclosure agreement that she signed days before the 2016 presidential election, which prevented her from discussing the alleged sexual encounters. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleges that the agreement is “null and void and of no consequence” because Trump didn’t personally sign it. Adult film actress Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she wanted to go public with the details of her alleged sexual relationship with Trump in the weeks leading up to the election, according to the lawsuit. Clifford said the relationship included encounters at Lake Tahoe and Beverly Hills.
3 Voting law: An attorney challenging a Kansas law that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote says the restriction has kept an estimated 22,000 people from voting, with a large percentage being young people and independent voters. Dale Ho, director for the Voting Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, offered that estimate during opening statements Tuesday in a lawsuit over the law’s requirement that people provide documents such as a birth certificate or passport when they register. 4 Gay pride parade: Leaders of a Mississippi college town now say they will permit a gay pride parade, reversing a previous denial after a lawsuit was filed. Starkville aldermen voted 3-3 Tuesday evening with the mayor casting the tiebreaking vote to allow the parade. The aldermen previously rejected the application 4-3 last month. Days ago, community group Starkville Pride and two organizers filed a federal lawsuit against the city, saying the city had denied their constitutional rights to free expression and equal protection. Starkville is home to Mississippi State University. 5 Child endangerment charges: An 8-year-old boy loaded a rifle, repeatedly shot his 4-year-old sister at home and then informed their mother, who left work to check the girl’s injuries, cleaned up a bloody bed cover and returned to work, leaving the children alone again, a prosecutor said. Alyssa Edwards, 27, was jailed on child endangerment charges related to the Saturday shooting in Hayesville, about 70 miles southwest of Cleveland. Edwards took the girl to a hospital hours after the shooting, and the hospital contacted police. The 4-year-old girl is in stable condition.