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North Carolina Law May Risk Federal Aid

The Obama administration is considering whether North Carolina’s new law on gay and transgender rights makes the state ineligible for billions of dollars in federal aid for schools, highways and housing, officials said Friday.

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Donald Trump Sued In Kentucky By 3 Who Say He Incited Violence

Three people who claim they were assaulted at a Donald Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky, last month have filed a lawsuit against the Republican presidential candidate, saying he “incited a riot.”

Molly Shah, Kashiya Nwanguma and Henry Brousseau filed the lawsuit on Thursday in Jefferson Circuit Court in Louisville, claiming that Trump’s repeated calls of “get them out” at a rally at the Kentucky International Convention Center on March 1 was intended to direct his supporters to “use unwanted, harmful physical force to remove protesters, including the plaintiffs.”

The lawsuit also names as defendants the Trump campaign and three individuals who the plaintiffs claim assaulted them at the rally.

The three plaintiffs, all Louisville residents, claim they suffered physical injuries, emotional distress and humiliation, and are seeking unspecified damages, according to the lawsuit.

“Peaceful protest is an American tradition, especially in the context of presidential politics,” Dan Canon, the attorney for the plaintiffs, told Reuters in a Twitter message. “But what you see all over the country, time and time again, is violence employed against protesters at Trump campaign events. These plaintiffs are saying ‘enough is enough,'”

The lawsuit said Trump stopped his 30-minute speech five times to point out protesters and, in most cases, told supporters to “get ’em out of here,” according to the lawsuit.

A spokeswoman for Trump’s campaign could not be reached for comment.

The lawsuit claims that Trump “incited a riot as defined under the Kentucky penal code.”

The individuals named as defendants are Matthew Heimbach, described in the complaint as a Trump supporter and Ohio resident who is “affiliated with the Traditionalist Worker Party, a recognized hate group”; Alvin Bamberger, 75, described as a Trump supporter and an Ohio resident; and an unknown female.

According to the lawsuit, at the rally, Heimbach, who was wearing a Traditionalist Worker Party T-shirt, attacked Shah and Nwanguma. A spokesman for the Traditional Worker Party could not be reached.

A website for the Traditionalist Worker Party describes it as a grassroots political organization that believes, among other things, that “European-American identity is under constant attack.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization that monitors groups it considers extremist, classifies the Traditionalist Worker Party as a white nationalist hate group.

According to the lawsuit, Nwanguma was assaulted by numerous protesters at the rally, of whom Heimbach and Bamberger were the most aggressive. Video of Nwanguma, a 21-year-old college student, being repeatedly pushed at the convention went viral after the rally, the lawsuit said.

Bamberger could not be reached immediately for comment.

The lawsuit also claims that Shah was assaulted by Heimbach and that Brousseau was assaulted by the unknown female defendant.

(Reporting by Steve Bittenbender; Editing by Ben Klayman and Leslie Adler)

Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.

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Obama: 'No Doubt' Civilians Have Been Killed In Drone Strikes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday there is no doubt that civilians have been killed in U.S. drone strikes targeting suspected terrorists, and procedures are constantly evaluated.

He told a news conference at the end of a nuclear security summit that there had been “legitimate criticism” of the legal framework for the drone strikes and “there is no doubt that civilians were killed that shouldn’t have been.”

(Reporting by Washington Newsroom; Editing by James Dalgleish)

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Tom Conrad: Beer Tour Alert: 5 Tips For The Best Craft Beer And Brewery Tour To Germany [Photos ]

Fall beer season is just around the corner. And as craft beer rides a seismic wave of popularity that shows no sign of letting up, beer travelers are more sophisticated and beer tours are getting more interesting.

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Obama Is Going To A Baseball Game: Rays vs. Cuba At Home

President Barack Obama plans to attend an exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national baseball team on March 22 in Havana, a historic event in both international relations and sport.

White House official Ben Rhodes tweeted the news Tuesday evening:

BREAKING: @POTUS will attend an exhibition game between @MLB’s @RaysBaseball & the Cuban National Team in Cuba: t.co/3aRAAjEodz

— Ben Rhodes (@rhodes44) March 2, 2016

Charting new #CubaPolicy means stronger ties between Cubans & Americans – we all share a love of baseball: t.co/3aRAAjEodz

— Ben Rhodes (@rhodes44) March 2, 2016

“We are very excited to…strengthen ties between our countries through our love & passion for the game of baseball.”-@MLB_PLAYERS #CubaPolicy

— Ben Rhodes (@rhodes44) March 2, 2016

Obama will see the game at Latin American Stadium during his even more historic visit to Cuba, the first time a sitting U.S. president has been to that country since 1928. In December 2014, the U.S. and Cuba agreed to end decades of enmity that began in the Cold War, and the restoration of diplomatic ties started in 2015.

“Americans and Cubans share a love of baseball, and this is yet another powerful reminder of the kinship between our peoples as well as the progress we can achieve when we leverage those natural ties,” a White House official told ESPN on Tuesday.

The game will also represent the first time a Major League Baseball team has played in Cuba since 1999. The Rays were selected in November to participate in the exhibition, which will be shown on ESPN.

Obama is a Chicago White Sox fan, but presumably on this occasion he’ll root for the Rays.

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