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The Supreme Court Can Save Women's Sports | Opinion
Newsweek
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July 9, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases related to the protection—and the preservation—of women's sports. This news should gladden the hearts of female athletes across the country. The Court's decision promises a legal reckoning that...
RELIGION HEADLINES WED 7-2-25
SRN News
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July 2, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix ( SRN NEWS ) Iowa has become the first state to remove so-called “gender identity” from its civil rights code under a law that took effect this week. That means transgender and nonbinary residents are no longer part of a...
Morrisey Supports Parent's Lawsuit Over West Virginia Board of Education's Vaccine Guidance
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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photo by: W.Va. Governor’s Office Gov. Patrick Morrisey said he supports a new lawsuit aimed at blocking a West Virginia Board of Education directive requiring counties to follow current state law on school-age vaccine requirements. CHARLESTON —...
McCuskey submits filing to Supreme Court, asks to uphold West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act
MetroNews - West Virginia
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June 25, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear and uphold the State of West Virginia v. B.P.J. J.B. McCuskey McCuskey wants the Supreme Court to reverse the injunction from 4th circuit after they issued...
The Quiet Renewable Race: Private Equity’s Bid For Prime Energy Land
Forbes
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WHITEWATER, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 05 : Wind turbines produce energy at Whitewater Energy's Wind ... More Turbine Farm, December 5, 1997 in Whitewater, California near Palm Springs. (Photo by Getty Images/Bob Riha, Jr.)Getty Images Private equity...
GOP Medicaid cuts threaten to devastate key lifeline in West Virginia
The Exponent Telegram - West Virginia
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ROMNEY, W.Va. - Hampshire Memorial Hospital is nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, past more than 20 miles of winding mountain roads dotted with lush trees and ridges. It is the only hospital for a county that spans 645 square miles and,...
Attorney General asks Supreme Court to consider West Virginia law dealing with youth sports
WOAY 4 - West Virginia
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June 24, 2025
Oak Hill, WV (WOAY) – The fight over West Virginia’s law that would define girls and boys sports by biological sex could be headed to the Supreme Court. Attorney General J.B. McCuskey submitted a filing, asking the United States’ highest court to...
A West Virginia parent sues seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations
WTOP - District Columbia
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June 24, 2025
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking a religious exemption from required school vaccinations… CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking a religious exemption from...
Debate intensifies as lawsuit filed over religious vaccine exemptions in West Virginia
WCHS - West Virginia
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — It's been an ongoing debate since Gov. Patrick Morrisey took office and signed an executive order to grant religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements. During the legislative session, a law that would allow this...
No way a poll could unscramble the Big 12 race
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez and his Mountaineers sing “Country Roads following the 2025 Gold-Blue Spring Showcase. (Photo by Frank Salucci/BlueGoldNews.com) MORGANTOWN — As the Big 12 gathers for its annual football Media Days at...
DHS opens new CPB training center in West Virginia
KFDX - Texas
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June 24, 2025
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – Top federal officials, including Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, were in West Virginia Monday for the grand opening of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) training center a facility that...
From soccer to rugby to hockey, women’s sports in Pittsburgh are thriving
WESA - Pennsylvania
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July 8, 2025
Pittsburgh’s newest women’s soccer team, the Riveters, just wrapped up their inaugural season with the USLW league after clinching the Great Forest Division. The team is the latest to join a slate of women’s sports leagues, which many players say...
Groups urge Sens. Capito, Justice to protect West Virginians, vote against harmful cuts to health programs and energy tax credits
Appalachian Voice
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June 24, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 24, 2025 CONTACT Dan Radmacher, dan@appvoices.org CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Today multiple groups held a press conference outside the office of Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., to highlight the damaging cuts to vital programs...
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band Announce Tour, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Pitchfork
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July 22, 2025
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band have announced a headlining tour and shared “Better If You Make Me,” the final preview of their upcoming album New Threats From the Soul. Accompanying the single is a music video directed by Tijah Bumgarner that was...
Gassaway Days announces Rubber Duck Race winners
The Braxton Citizen - West Virginia
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July 8, 2025
In 2024, the Gassaway Days Committee started selling tickets for a Rubber Duck Race as a fundraiser. Approximately 500 toy rubber ducks were numbered and then launched from the Dairy Queen Bridge into the Elk River to float to the finish line. The...
Trump DOJ dismisses Biden-era lawsuit challenging law banning sex-change surgeries for kids
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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July 22, 2025
By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Trans activists and their supporters rally in support of transgenderism on the steps of New York City Hall, October 24, 2018, in New York City. The group gathered to speak out...
Today in Chicago History: White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle throws a perfect game
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 23, 2025
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 23, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 99...
The Trilogy Redefining Women’s Boxing
Saturday Evening Post - Texas
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July 8, 2025
Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! No sport celebrates a trilogy quite the way boxing does. Ali–Frazier. Gatti–Ward. Fury–Wilder. What makes these matches special are the combatants; their rivalry and their...
Mason County man sentenced to decades in prison for sexual abuse of children
WCHS - West Virginia
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MASON COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A Mason County man will spend decades behind bars after multiple instances of child abuse were reported. Owen Christopher Johnson, 28, of Ashton has been sentenced to 30-to-60 years in prison after being convicted on...
Noem helps cut ribbon at West Virginia Customs & Border Protection facility
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem joined U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, U.S. Rep. Riley Moore and Customs and Border Protection leaders to cut the ribbon for the newest facility on the CBP campus, Monarch Hall, at Harpers Ferry....