内容摘要：David, an Indigenous child from the Wayuu community, swings in a hammock in Mayapo, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

David, an Indigenous child from the Wayuu community, swings in a hammock in Mayapo, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

The pride flag has regularly flown over Boise’s City Hall for years, and Mayor Lauren McLean kept the flag aloft even after Idaho’s law took effect. McLean said she believed the law was unenforceable.But Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador recently warned he would ask lawmakers to add an enforcement mechanism in the 2026 legislative session.

The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise adopted new city flags this week showing support for LGBTQ+ people in defiance of their states’ Republican-controlled Legislatures, which have banned traditional rainbow pride flags at schools and government buildings.Under the Utah law, state or local government buildings can be fined $500 a day for flying any flag other than the U.S. flag, the state flag, a city or county flag, military flags, Olympic and Paralympic flags, official college flags or tribal flags. Political flags are not allowed.Last week, McLean responded to the Idaho law by issuing a proclamation retroactively making the pride flag an official city flag, along with a flag honoring organ donors. It allowed both to be flown alongside Boise’s traditional blue flag featuring the Capitol building and the slogan “City of Trees.”

The city council voted 5 to 1 for the proclamation during a packed and sometimes rowdy meeting Tuesday night.“Removing the flag now after years of flying it proudly would not be a neutral act,” said council member Meredith Stead. “It would signal a retreat from values we’ve long upheld and send a disheartening message to those who have found affirmation and belonging through its presence at city hall.”

Some in attendance held pride flags while others waved the U.S. flag. At times, shouts erupted, prompting a brief recess.

Utah in March became the first state to enact a ban on unsanctioned flags at all government buildings. Republican Gov. Spencer Cox let the bill become law without his signature. He said he thought it went too far in regulating local governments but chose not to reject it because his veto would likely be overridden by the Legislature.A first-round draft pick who took Kansas to the NCAA Sweet 16 four years in a row and won it all with the 2008 Boston Celtics, Pollard was virtually bedridden by 2024, unable to walk around the block or even conduct an interview without needing a rest because of a virus that had weakened his heart.

Since receiving the life-saving transplant last winter, he has dedicated himself to, a mission that earned him the honor of serving as the Grand Marshal for the Indy 500 Festival Parade on Saturday. Angell’s family rode along on the float with him.

“Any time we get to see them and be around them is a great moment,” Pollard said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “But also just to be able to share this experience of being grand marshal with them, and be part of their lives.”At 6-foot-11 and a playing weight of 260 pounds, Pollard inherited his size from his father along with a genetic heart condition that doctors say was triggered by a virus that left him no other choice but a transplant. The problem would be