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Relief, 21st-century style: As wildfires burn, GoFundMe becomes a repository of harrowing stories
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)As California's massive wildfires burn, thousands of GoFundMe campaigns for victims have become an outlet for onlookers transfixed by the blazes and eager to do something to help.
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Antwan Staley: 6 players to watch during the CFP national championship between Ohio State and Notre Dame
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)After the first year of the expanded 12-team playoff, the national championship game is almost ready to kick off. Notre Dame (14-1) will try to win its first national championship
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Judges allow some Capitol riot defendants to return to DC for Trump’s inauguration
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Thousands of Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Four years later, some of them are allowed to return.
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New Orleans attack raises familiar debate: Can Bourbon Street be made safe?
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Shock and grief have given way to finger-pointing over whether additional security could have stopped — or mitigated — the recent attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans.
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Vital yet undervalued: Funding shortfalls stunt growth, progress at Montana tribal colleges
Saturday, January 18th, 2025
via Billings Gazette (Montana)While the injection of federal coronavirus relief dollars offered a glimpse of what's possible when these schools are adequately resourced, future funding remains in limbo.
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Israel’s Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and release of hostages
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Israel's Cabinet approved a deal early Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages held there and pause the 15-month war with Hamas.
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LA’s Olympic venues were spared by wildfires, but the city’s rebuild could impact Games
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)The runup to LA hosting the 2028 Olympics will coincide with massive rebuilding of housing and infrastructure at a time when the region's resources figure to be stretched.
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DMV boosts pay for employees, ahead of state salary review
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has been raising pay for more than half of its employees since August, based on a study by an international consulting firm.
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The 19th explains: Can trans rights survive in a Republican-controlled Congress? • Michigan Advance
Friday, January 17th, 2025
via Michigan Advance (Michigan)Originally published by The 19th. The Michigan Advance is a partner with the 19th. For two years, as states pushed anti-trans laws, Republicans in Congress filed dozens upon dozens of bills that would…
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Capitol Talk: Lawmakers debate bathrooms and homesteads. Sheehy wedges-in his joke
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
via Montana Public Radio (Montana)Gender identity and anti-trans legislation are a repeat focus this session. Lawmakers begin work on property tax changes. The governor is quiet about Medicaid expansion. Sen. Sheehy wants to know how…
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Legislation to bar transgender women from women’s sports in Virginia fails first test
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)A push to ban transgender women from participating in women's sports – an issue pressed hard by President-elect Donald Trump during his campaign last year – failed in its first General Assembly test.
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Athletes of the Week for Jan. 9 through 15
Thursday, January 16th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Notable performances from across the area.
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Virginia GOP leaders call for ban on trans women in women’s sports
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via NewsAdvance.com (Virginia)Virginia's top Republicans joined to call on the General Assembly to keep transgender women – who they called 'biological males' – out of women's sports.
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Heart Butte man admits to sexually abusing children, authorities say
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Independent Record (Montana)Bradley Joseph Guardipee, 26, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and commission of a sex offense by a registered sex offender.
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U.S. House passes bill banning trans athletes from competing in women’s school sports • Wisconsin Examiner
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Wisconsin Examiner (Wisconsin)The House passed an amendment to Title IX: 'sex shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.'
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Will Trump’s position on DEI further affect Georgia? State has already opposed it before
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via The Telegraph (Georgia)Education groups predict growing resistance to DEI policies in Georgia public schools under Trump's 2nd term, potential effect on classrooms
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Trump says he will create an ‘External Revenue Service’ agency to collect tariff income
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Independent Record (Montana)Economists have said the tariffs' costs will be passed on to consumers, and are generally skeptical of them, considering them a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money.
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U.S. House passes bill banning trans athletes from competing in women’s school sports • Missouri Independent
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Missouri Independent (Missouri)WASHINGTON — A measure that would bar transgender students from participating on women's school sports teams consistent with their gender identity passed the U.S. House on Tuesday. The legislation —…
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U.S. House passes bill banning trans athletes from competing in women’s school sports • Georgia Recorder
Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
via Georgia Recorder (Georgia)WASHINGTON — A measure that would bar transgender students from participating on women's school sports teams consistent with their gender identity passed the U.S. House on Tuesday. The legislation —…
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