Milwaukee, WI

Elkhorn, WI

ELKHORN, Wis. (Civic Media) — A federal court has issued a preliminary injunction allowing a transgender 13-year-old to use the girls’ restrooms at Elkhorn Area Middle School. The decision, granted on August 1st comes as the student, identified as Jane Doe, prepares to return to school in September.

Federal Court Allows Transgender Student Access to Girls’ Restrooms in Elkhorn School

A transgender student from Hanover County will be allowed to try out for her middle school girls’ tennis team after all. U.S. District Court Judge M. Hanna Lauck delivered a favorable ruling Wednesday in a lawsuit filed against the school system for denying the 11-year-old student a spot on the team.

Federal judge rules in favor of trans athlete in Hanover

The start of the school year often brings questions for families about schedules, supplies and new teachers. But for some students in Virginia, the most pressing question is a simple one: What should they call their school?. Briana Brown and A.D. Carter are starting their senior year of high school...

Students divided after returning to schools with Confederate names restored

New Hampshire State

Two transgender teenagers and their families filed a lawsuit Friday against New Hampshire education officials over a new state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools.

Transgender teens sue New Hampshire officials over new state law prohibiting them from competing on girls’ sports teams

The Associated Press

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. The issue of how to treat transgender athletes has been fiercely debated...

Trans teens file lawsuit challenging New Hampshire law banning them from girls’ sports

Texas State

Wide Open Country

A 12-year-old Texas cheerleader is dead after her parents refused to take her to the hospital. Instead, they tried to treat "life-threatening" injuries with a combo of smoothies and vitamins. Smoothies and vitamins are good for a lot of things, but curing injuries isn't one of them. The Atascosa County...

Texas Cheerleader Dies After Parents Allegedly Treat Life-Threatening Injuries With Smoothies And Vitamins

Minnesota State

As soon as Tim Walz was announced as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Republicans wasted no time going after the Minnesota governor’s pro-LGBTQ+ record, which includes making his state a safe haven for transgender youth seeking medical care. But perhaps fittingly, the most hilariously incompetent attack of them all has come from the man at the top of the GOP ticket.

Trump Attacks Tim Walz, Saying He’s “Very Heavy Into Transgender”

Virginia State

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Kentucky Vibes.net

Disclaimer: This article was written with the help of A.I. software. On July 28, 2024, a TikTok video posted by Erica W., known as @tasteofmelanin on the platform, garnered significant attention after she exposed disturbing racist decorations in an Airbnb rental. The incident occurred in a rental property that Erica had booked, although the exact location remains unspecified. The video has since gone viral, prompting widespread concern and leading to the removal of the listing from Airbnb's platform.

Airbnb Listing Taken Down After Black Woman Finds Hanging Monkeys and Cotton Used As Decor

Alabama State

Mobile, AL

The sun sets over Mobile Bay in this undated photo. The Clotilda, the last ship known to have carried enslaved men and women into the United States, left Mobile in early 1860 and arrived later that year with 110 men and women in chains. (Mindy Flanigen/Getty Images) The Clotilda isn’t...

The unpunished crimes of the Clotilda — and Alabama

Chalkbeat

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.A new coalition is on high alert for violations of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that guarantees children the right to a free public education regardless of their immigration status.Known as Education for All, the campaign is working to counteract anti-immigrant rhetoric and conservative policy proposals seeking to limit the educational rights of undocumented children, which are protected by the 1982 Supreme Court decision Plyler v. Doe.The campaign, which launched in May, comes as The Heritage Foundation, a think tank with ties to...

Undocumented kids have a right to attend public schools. This coalition wants to keep it that way.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden administration cannot enforce its expanded federal protections for transgender students in the 26 states that have asked to block them while ongoing court challenges to the rules play out. The Biden administration unveiled its revisions to Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination measures...

SCOTUS Blocks Expanded Protections for Trans Students From Taking Effect in 26 States

Booneville, MS

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Mississippi News Group

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. According to the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department, a Booneville man has been charged with multiple counts of molestation following an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of a child.

Man Charged with Child Molestation; Woman Accused of Contributing to Delinquency

Livingston County, MI

Howell, MI

Former President Donald Trump speaks in Grand Rapids, Michigan on Biden's border policy, flanked by members of law enforcement, as well as Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt (R-Porter Twp.) and former Michigan U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers on April 2, 2024. (Photo: Anna Liz Nichols) Less than a month after white...

Trump plans Howell visit to talk ‘crime and safety’

Salem, OH

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

North Carolina State

USA TODAY

Michele Morrow thinks children are being 'indoctrinated' by public schools and wouldn't answer if the 2020 election was stolen.

She 'sarcastically' said Obama should be killed. Now she wants to control kids' education.

Albert Lea, MN

Fox News

A Minnesota grandmother and former small business owner jailed for defying Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's COVID lockdown shares her story with America.

Minnesota grandma jailed for defying Walz COVID lockdown orders warns 'you do not want tyranny at this level'

Oklahoma State

Pottawatomie County, OK

Law & Crime

A former sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma was arrested for harboring her fugitive boyfriend at her home and tipping him off to a police task force investigating him, authorities said. ​Alicia Briones, 34, was arrested on Aug. 6 for harboring Emanuel McClain, who had a warrant out for his arrest...

‘Delete these damn text bc clearly someone reading the mfers’: Deputy harbored fugitive boyfriend at her home and tipped him off to police investigation, prosecutors say

West Virginia State

The Hill

West Virginia will take its fight over whether its Medicaid program must cover gender-affirming surgeries to the Supreme Court, the state’s Republican attorney general announced Thursday. “Once again, the state of West Virginia is going to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said at a news conference...

West Virginia asks Supreme Court to allow Medicaid to deny coverage for gender-affirming surgery

Tennessee State

No Tennessee school district has expressed interest in training teachers to carry guns at school, following passage of a law permitting them to do so. (Photo: Karen Pulfer Focht) (This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free daily...

Tennessee law to let teachers carry guns in schools caused a ruckus, but has drawn little interest

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to let President Joe Biden's administration enforce a key part of a new rule protecting LGBT students from discrimination in schools and colleges based on gender identity in 10 Republican-led states that had challenged it.

US Supreme Court won't allow LGBT student protection in certain states

NewsBreak

Federal court allows transgender student to try out for Virginia school sports team

(Stock photo by Vladimir Vladimirov/Getty Images) A federal judge ordered Hanover County Public Schools late Friday to temporarily cease blocking a transgender middle school student from...

Federal court allows transgender student to try out for Virginia school sports team

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