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RELIGION HEADLINES THR 6-26-25
SRN News
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June 26, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix ( SRN NEWS ) The sleeper cell behind a deadly church bombing near Damascus this week belonged to ISIS, which had plans to target a Shiite shrine in a similar attack. That’s the word from the Syrian government. The attack was...
Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional History & Education welcomes new leadership with open house
The Shepherdstown Chronicle - West Virginia
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New Byrd Center Archivist Melanie Garvey, center, chats with her mother, Dawn Garvey, and Martinsburg resident Denver Gaydon, at the open house on Saturday. Photo by Tabitha Johnston SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Robert C. Byrd Center for Congressional...
Immigrants drive population growth in a graying America, census shows
Anchorage Daily News - Alaska
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Thirty immigrants from 18 nations take the oath to become U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna) Immigration is driving U.S. population growth and helping...
Will state bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports be upheld? US Supreme Court to weigh in
Mint
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July 3, 2025
The US Supreme Court agreed on Thursday (July 3) to hear challenges to state laws banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports. The high court said it will take up appeals involving laws enacted in Idaho and West Virginia that...
Virginia ditches speech code for counselors as SCOTUS ramps up gender ideology reviews
Just the News
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July 3, 2025
Before the Supreme Court can review the constitutionality of Colorado's ban on minors receiving talk therapy to treat unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion, which nearly half of states have imposed, the blue state that elected...
Hailey Barrett 'perfect fit' as new Montana State women's tennis coach
KTVH - Montana
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July 3, 2025
BOZEMAN — Hailey Barrett, who recently completed her third season as an assistant at Rutgers University, has been named Montana State’s next women’s head tennis coach, announced MSU director of athletics Leon Costello on Wednesday. “I am pleased...
Red States Set To Defend Women’s Sports At Supreme Court
Daily Wire
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July 3, 2025
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear two cases revolving around state laws keeping transgender-identifying males out of women’s sports. The court is set to consider cases out of Idaho and West Virginia, where laws banning males who...
SCOTUS to hear cases of male athletes on women’s teams
World - North Carolina
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July 3, 2025
In a Thursday order, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases involving the issue of whether male athletes who identify themselves as women can play women’s sports. The high court agreed to hear Idaho Gov. Brad Little v. Lindsay Hecox and West...
U.S. Supreme Court will review case for Idaho's Fairness in Women’s Sports Act
KHQ - Washington State
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July 3, 2025
BOISE, Idaho – The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it has agreed to review Hecox v. Little, which determines the legality of Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. The Supreme Court will also be reviewing a similar case in West Virginia....
U.S. Supreme Court to hear WV Save Women’s Sports Act case
WSAZ - West Virginia
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July 3, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear State of West Virginia v. B.P.J, Attorney General JB McCuskey said. The case involves a challenge to West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act, which protects biological female...
Supreme Court takes up state bans on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports
News9 - Oklahoma
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider whether states can prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports, setting up a high-profile clash that could have far-reaching implications across the country. The...
Supreme Court Intervenes in Trump’s Trans Athlete Culture War
The Daily Beast
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July 3, 2025
The Supreme Court is wading into one of the most divisive cultural issues: transgender athletes in women’s sports. The court agreed Thursday to examine a pair of cases where trans athletes have challenged statewide bans on their participation on...
Women’s Basketball to Play in Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship
Gopher Sports University of Minnesota Athletics
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June 25, 2025
MINNEAPOLIS - The University of Minnesota women's basketball team has accepted an invitation to one of the premier non-conference tournaments of the upcoming season in the Bahamas - the 2025 Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship in Nassau, at...
Supreme Court to decide if federal law bars transgender athletes from women's teams
Los Angeles Times
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July 3, 2025
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to weigh in on the growing controversy over transgender athletes and decide if federal law bars transgender girls from women’s school sports teams. “Biological boys should not compete on girls’...
Trump news at a glance: Republicans pass bill that will cut federal safety net and boost immigration enforcement
The Guardian
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July 3, 2025
The US House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill on Thursday, handing the president the first major legislative victory of his second term, with the bill expected to supercharge immigration enforcement and slash...
Independence Day, Ranked-Choice Wins and Jacinda Ardern: This Week in Women’s Representation
Ms. Magazine
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July 3, 2025
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little...
US Supreme Court to take up issue of state bans on transgender women in sports
Pink News
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July 3, 2025
The Supreme Court with a person holding a trans flag outside it. (Getty/Canva) The Supreme Court has announced that it will take up multiple cases concerning state bans on transgender women in sports, which in turn could potentially lead to a...
Immigration raids: Will they happen on Ohio and Pa. farms?
Farm and Dairy
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June 25, 2025
SALEM, Ohio — Baldemar Velasquez knows what it’s like to bounce from place to place, picking fruit and vegetables in the hot and humid upper Midwest temperatures. Growing up, Velasquez, his parents and eight siblings traveled from Rio Grande...
Way Too Early NCAA Women's Cross Country Rankings 2025
FloTrack - Texas
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July 3, 2025
The landscape shouldn't change too much for the women's NCAA Cross Country season, and that should lead to thrilling battles throughout the course of the 2025 season. With the start of the 2025 Cross Country season officially in the windshield, we...
Cleveland & Akron metro areas join growing list of places where seniors now outnumber children
Cleveland.com - Ohio
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July 3, 2025
CLEVELAND, Ohio - People over the age of 65 now outnumber children in both the Akron and Cleveland metro areas as the region has joined a growing list of such places across the country. Nearly a third of the metro areas in the United States - 112...