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SPORTS:
FBN--RAIDERS-CHIEFS — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chiefs are welcoming the Raiders back to Arrowhead Stadium after a stunning loss to their longtime and bitter AFC West rivals last year. That game in which Las Vegas took advantage of two defensive touchdowns came on Christmas Day. It also served as a wake-up call for Kansas City, which didn't lose again on its way to repeating as Super Bowl champions. By Dave Skretta. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos. Game starts 2 p.m. CT.
BKC--T25-FLORIDA-WICHITA STATE — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — No. 18 Florida faces Wichita State in a matchup of unbeaten teams in the ESPN Events Invitational final at Disney World. UPCOMING: 300 words. Game starts at 2:30 p.m. CT.
LOCALIZATION
US--ELECTION 2024-FEMALE LEGISLATORS-LOCALIZE IT: Women will for the first time make up a majority of state legislators in Colorado and New Mexico next year, but at least 13 states saw losses in female representation after the November election, according to a count released Thursday by the Rutgers Center for American Women and Politics. While women will fill a record number of state legislative seats in 2025, the overall uptick will be slight, filling just over third of legislative seats. Races in some states are still being called. We break down the states with increased and decreased representation, offer reporting suggestions and provide an embed code for an interactive bar chart that looks at the numbers in each state. Find the latest Localize It guides.
US--TRUMP STAFF PICKS-LOCALIZE IT: President-elect Donald Trump is starting to fill key posts in his second administration, putting an emphasis so far on aides and allies who were his strongest backers during the 2024 campaign. Among his picks are Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state, former Democratic House member Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of health and human services. We break down his selections and their ties to U.S. states. Find the latest Localize It guides.
US--PHILANTHROPY-VOLUNTEERING-LOCALIZE IT: A new survey released Tuesday from the U.S. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps shows 28.3% or 75.8 million people in the U.S. volunteered with a nonprofit between Sept. 2022 and Sept. 2023. That is a rebound since COVID-19 public health shutdowns tanked participation by almost 7 percentage points to 23.2% in 2021, the last time the survey was conducted. It is not a full return to pre-pandemic rates of volunteerism. Nearly 47% of people in Utah volunteered, making it the state with the highest rate of volunteerism. A couple of states like Rhode Island and Nevada were below 20% participation.We provide reporting suggestions, dataso you can see where your state ranks, and an embeddable bar chart showing the rate of formal volunteerism for people in different education and income groups. Find the latest Localize It guides.
US--EDUCATION-TRANSGENDER STUDENTS-LOCALIZE IT: Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he becomes president. Trump’s administration can swiftly start work on one major change: It can exclude transgender students from Title IX protections. Those affect school policies on students’ use of pronouns, bathrooms and locker rooms. We provide additional context, reporting questions and resources, and two embeddable graphics looking at AP VoteCast responses to questions about transgender rights. Find the latest Localize It guides.
US—RAIL PROJECTS GRANTS-LOCALIZE IT: The federal government is handing out $2.4 billion in railroad grants to help pay for 122 projects nationwide with more than half of the money going to smaller railroads. The grants announced Tuesday will go to projects across 41 states and Washington D.C. We list out a number of the grants and link to a full list with further details. Find the latest Localize It guides.
US--EDUCATION-IMMIGRANT STUDENTS-LOCALIZE IT: In communities that have received large numbers of immigrant families, schools face particular challenges meeting the needs of the newcomer students — children who may not speak English and may have missed out on consistent schooling before reaching the United States. Immigrant families in the U.S. also can face hostile communities and difficulty getting housing and work, which affects their ability to attend school or thrive there. We provide additional context and resources for local reporting. Find the latest Localize It guides.
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