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A group of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers is urging a collegiate athletic conference to ban transgender women from competition after reports of a trans student competing on the s women’s volleyball team of a participating university. “Under these guidelines, it is only fair that biological males play men’s sports and biological females play women’s sports.”“Clearly, the Mountain West Conference has dropped the ball,” it continues. In September, SJSU volleyball player Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen women athletes against the NCAA, which oversees collegiate athletics, about trans athletes’ participation in school sports. The lawsuit argues that the NCAA violated the Title IX rights of cisgender female athletes by allowing transgender women to compete against them. Just last week, Slusser and 10 other former and current athletes in the Mountain West Conference filed a separate lawsuit against the conference and three SJSU staffers, accusing them of violating players’ Title IX rights.

Persons: Utah’s Sen, Mitt Romney, Sen, Mike Lee, John Curtis, Blake Moore, Burgess Owens, Celeste Maloy, Idaho’s Sen, Mike Crapo, James Risch, Russ Fulcher, Mike Simpson, Wyoming’s Sen, John Barrasso, Cynthia Lummis, Harriet Hageman, SJSU, Brooke Slusser, Lia Thomas, University of Nevada and Southern Utah University —, Michelle Smith McDonald, ” Organizations: Republican, Mountain West Conference, NCAA Division, Rep, San, NBC, NCAA, University of Pennsylvania, — Utah State University, University of Wyoming, Boise State University, University of Nevada and Southern Utah University Locations: San José State

A Wyoming judge ruled Monday that two laws restricting and banning abortion in the state violate its constitution, making the procedure legal up until fetal viability for the time being. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens imposed an injunction on the pair of state laws in a ruling that said they ran afoul of the state constitution, which says every person has a right to personal autonomy in making medical decisions. The statutes were therefore “facially unconstitutional,” Owens wrote, as they placed “unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions” on pregnant women’s rights to make their own health care decisions. Owens has blocked the state's abortion laws three times now. One of the plaintiffs in the current suit, Wellspring Health Access, opened as Wyoming’s only full-service abortion clinic last year.

Persons: Melissa Owens, Owens, ” Owens, ”, general's, Roe, Wade Organizations: Google, Wyoming Supreme, U.S, Supreme Locations: Wyoming, Teton County, Teton, Courthouse, Jackson

☆ American Battleground: The fight to the finish — and what lies beyond the 2024 campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( Tom Foreman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

“Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?” Anderson Cooper asked her in a CNN town hall just two days earlier. They are indeed the ‘enemy from within.’”Former President Donald Trump addresses the crowd during his campaign rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden on October 27. You’re a sh*t vice president.’”It’s crude, it’s rude, but for Trump’s campaign it is right on target. “We know what Donald Trump wants,” Harris says in DC just outside the vice presidential residence. As Trump’s 2020 campaign communications director Erin Perrine puts it, “Donald Trump is a political anomaly.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Read, Trump, Kamala Harris, ” Anderson Cooper, “, ” Harris, Rebecca Wright, John Kelly, Trump “, Defense James Mattis, John Bolton, Mark Esper, Bob Woodward, Staff Mark Milley, Republican Sen, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Mike Johnson, ”, Harris, ” “, Tony Hinchcliffe, Puerto Rico, ’ ”, Anna Moneymaker, ” Trump, Ezra Klein, Maggie Haberman, He’s, Edward, Isaac Dovere, …, ” Demonizing Harris, Frank Luntz, CNN’s, Michael Duncan, you’ve, Erick Erickson, Arnold Palmer’s, ’, Jenny Kane, Jeff Zeleny, Gloria Borger, he’s, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong, “ She’s, Eva McKend, ” Zeleny, CNN’s Laura Coates, Biden, ” Coates, Julia Roberts, Eminem, Oprah, Beyonce, Michelle Obama, CNN’s Dovere, Barack Obama, Jonathan Drake, Reuters Trump, ” McKend, Erin Perrine, “ Donald Trump, Daniel Dale, Hurricane Helene, Mike Pence, “ Let’s, Let’s, Sinéad O’Connor, Hillary Clinton, We’ve, Norm Eisen, Eisen, – Trump, –, Stephanie Cutter, Evelyn Hockstein, Reuters Harris, Abraham Lincoln Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, ABC, ”, Trump, Trump’s, New York Times, Defense, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Republican, Marxist, Madison, Democratic, Puerto Ricans, New, Garden, GOP, Fox, WIN, Political, Illegal Voters, The New York Times, ” CNN, Fox News, Reuters, Biden, Univision, Capitol, “, United States Capitol Locations: Delaware County , Pennsylvania, York City, Puerto, Mexico, Portland , Oregon, Pennsylvania, DC, Georgia, In Michigan, Detroit, Charlotte , North Carolina, Trump, Hurricane, Madison, Washington ,

☆ Wyoming reporter caught using artificial intelligence to create fake quotes and stories
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

“The 2024 Cody Stampede Parade promises to be an unforgettable celebration of American independence, led by one of comedy’s most beloved figures,” the Cody Enterprise reported. In an editorial published Monday, Enterprise Editor Chris Bacon said he “failed to catch” the AI copy and false quotes. “It matters not that the false quotes were the apparent error of a hurried rookie reporter that trusted AI. It was my job,” Bacon wrote. Another story — about a poaching sentencing — included quotes from a wildlife official and a prosecutor that sounded like they came from a news release, Baker said.

Persons: HELENA, CJ Baker, Larry, Cable Guy, ”, Baker, Aaron Pelczar, Buffalo Bill Cody, Chris Bacon, “, ” Bacon, Pelczar, Bacon, I’ve, ” Baker, —, Mark Gordon, ” Michael Pearlman, It’s, Alex Mahadevan, ” Mahadevan, Megan Barton, Cody Enterprise’s, ” Barton, Poynter Organizations: Powell Tribune, Cable, Cody, Stampede, Cody Enterprise, Enterprise, Buffalo, ” Journalists, Associated Press, AP, Sports, Wyoming Gov, OSHA, Wyoming, Fish Department, Poynter Institute Locations: Mont, Wyoming

☆ How Does Your State Make Electricity?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Nadja Popovich | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +58 min

Wind turbines provided just 1 percent of the electricity produced in the state in 2001 and nearly 60 percent last year. How Kentucky made electricity from 2001 to 2023 Percentage of power produced from each energy sourceCoal still generates the majority of the electricity produced in Kentucky, a longtime coal mining state. Since then, virtually all of the electricity produced in the state has come from renewable sources, including hydropower, biomass, wind and solar. It has supplied more than 85 percent of the electricity produced in the state every year for more than two decades. Last year, wind supplied more than a fifth of the electricity produced in the state.

☆ Gabby Petito letter to Brian Laundrie signals tensions prior to road trip
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Dakin Andone | Jean Casarez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Gabby Petito once asked Brian Laundrie to stop calling her names, according to a letter she wrote released in a collection of FBI documents, signaling tensions between the couple prior to the 2021 road trip that would end with Laundrie killing his 22-year-old fiancée. Also included are scores of photographs of items recovered by authorities after the execution of a search warrant on September 20, 2021, including Petito’s letter to Laundrie. CNN has reached out to an attorney for Petito’s parents for comment on the letter. There is no context for Petito’s letter, and it’s unclear why the couple was at odds when she wrote it. The footage shows Moab police officers talking to Petito and Laundrie, who admitted having a fight in which Petito said she struck her fiancé first.

Persons: Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie, “ Brian, we’re, ” Petito, “ I’m, there’s, Wyoming’s, Laundrie –, Petito –, Petito, Laundrie, Steven Bertolino, Laundrie “, I’ve, ”, ” Bertolino, “, Brian, Gabby, ” James W Organizations: CNN, FBI, Moab Police Locations: Wyoming’s Bridger, Teton, Forest, North Port , Florida, North Port, Moab , Utah, Moab, Petito

☆ Mountain Landslide Destroys Section of Highway to Jackson, Wyo.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Mike Ives | More About Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A landslide in the Teton mountains destroyed part of a highway that links Idaho to Jackson, Wyo., forcing the authorities to close the road indefinitely on Saturday just as the area was entering its summer tourism season. No one was injured when a section of the Teton Pass “catastrophically failed,” the Wyoming Department of Transportation said in a statement on Saturday. The highway west of Jackson had been closed to traffic before the road gave way, and crews were working to build a detour around a section where a crack had appeared in the surface days earlier. The department said it expected a long-term closure. Travel and tourism is Wyoming’s second-largest industry, according to the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board, and the county took in about $1.7 billion in travel-related spending in 2022.

Persons: Jackson, Mark Gordon of Wyoming Organizations: Wyoming Department of Transportation, Gov, Teton County ., Jackson, Travel, Tourism Board Locations: Idaho, Jackson, Teton County

☆ Wyoming Bans Gender Transition Care for Minors
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-22 | by ( Amy Harmon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mark Gordon’s signature, Wyoming joins 23 other states that have passed partial or total bans on gender-affirming care in recent years. Wyoming’s bill, known as Senate File 99, was approved by lawmakers in both chambers earlier this month. Under the legislation, doctors, pharmacists and other health care providers who provide gender-affirming care could have their licenses suspended or revoked. As in other states, proponents of the measure have argued that the treatments in minors are relatively new, and that the long-term effects are not well studied. “I signed SF99 because I support the protections this bill includes for children,” Mr. Gordon said in a statement.

Persons: Mark Gordon’s, Anthony Bouchard, ’, Gordon, “, ” Mr, ’ ’ Sara Burlingame Organizations: Democratic Locations: Wyoming

☆ Parents of Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie set for mediation in emotional distress lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Dakin Andone | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Christopher and Roberta Laundrie denied being told by their son that he killed Petito, though Roberta Laundrie said the thought “probably went through my mind.”Petito’s family reported the 22-year-old missing on September 11, 2021, 10 days after Brian Laundrie returned to his parents’ home in North Port, Florida. He vanished soon after, igniting a weekslong manhunt that ended with the discovery of his remains in a Florida nature reserve. The latest lawsuit names Christopher and Roberta Laundrie and their attorney, Steven Bertolino, as defendants, claiming the trio’s actions during the search for Petito caused her parents severe emotional distress. Nichole Schmidt, mother of Gabby Petito, speaks alongside, from left, Tara Petito, Petito's stepmother; Joseph Petito, her father; Richard Stafford, the family's attorney; and Jim Schmidt, her stepfather; during a news conference in September 2021 in Bohemia, New York. Their statements were not intended to cause emotional distress but to “express” their “sincere wishes,” they argue.

Persons: Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie, Petito, Petito’s, Wyoming’s, Roberta Laundrie, “, ”, ’, Brian Laundrie’s, Christopher, Steven Bertolino, Joseph Petito, Nichole Schmidt, Tara Petito, Petito's, Richard Stafford, Jim Schmidt, John Minchillo, Miss Petito, Bertolino “, CNN’s Jean Casarez, Elizabeth Wolfe Organizations: CNN, Wednesday’s, Bertolino, Miss, ” Locations: Wyoming’s Bridger, Teton, Forest, North Port , Florida, Florida, Bohemia , New York

They eat a lot.”Many states have rejected federal funds on principle or for technical reasons. Twenty-two states have turned down the mostly federally funded expansion of Medicaid eligibility to provide health insurance to more lower-income adults. Photos You Should See View All 33 ImagesThe Summer EBT program, a response to increased child hunger when school is out, involves much less money. Bill Lee's office said the initiative is a pandemic-era benefit and that other food programs already exist. But Crystal FitzSimons, director of school programs at Food Research and Action Center, cited research that families buy more nutritional food when their grocery subsidies increase.

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☆ What Christian Nationalism Has Done to Wyoming Is a Sin - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Susan Stubson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

What followed was an uncomfortable master class in racism and xenophobia as the man decanted the reasons our country is going down the tubes. I now understand the ugliness I heard was part of a current of Christian nationalism fomenting beneath the surface. And in large part, it’s my faith community, white, rural and conservative, that got them there. As my faith grew, so did Tim’s political career in the Wyoming Legislature (he served in the House from 2008 to 2017). Christian nationalists have hijacked both my Republican Party and my faith community by blurring the lines between church and government and in the process rebranding our state’s identity.

☆ Jackson Hole Ranch Spanning 49 Acres Asks $22.5 Million
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Libertina Brandt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Be the first to know about the biggest and best luxury home sales and listings by signing up for our Mansion Deals email alert. In Wyoming’s Jackson Hole, a 49-acre property is hitting the market for $22.5 million.

☆ New Gun Research Center Funded by Firearms Executives Aims to Diversify Debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-29 | by ( Cameron Mcwhirter | Zusha Elinson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The University of Wyoming’s law school has launched a new center for gun research funded in part by executives from the firearms industry, which its founders say will bring new viewpoints to the field of study. While Second Amendment advocates have funded academic studies and research before, the new Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming is the first venture of its kind at an academic institution in recent decades, according to gun researchers.

The committee had been planning to hold another hearing on Wednesday but postponed it due to the hurricane approaching Florida. “Nothing provided by the Jan. 6 committee can be considered credible, or unedited or not manipulated," Stone told NBC News Tuesday. The committee has also obtained a trove of Secret Service documents from the period around the Jan. 6 attack. "I think it’s certainly something that will be explored," at the hearing, said the committee member who requested anonymity. “We all swore the same oath to the Constitution,” Cheney told NBC News in a statement, responding to the GOP criticism she’s faced.

☆ ‘Chaos and Confusion’ in States Where Abortion Is On Again, Off Again
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-11 | by ( Allison Mccann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

In some of these states, whether abortion is legal has changed from week to week. The state’s trigger ban has been blocked and reinstated three times in the course of six weeks. On July 14, a federal judge lifted an injunction on Kentucky’s 15-week abortion ban, allowing it to take effect. On July 14, a federal judge lifted an injunction on Kentucky’s 15-week abortion ban, allowing it to take effect. But even though abortion remained legal in those states, providers said that patients and medical professionals did not always know what was going on.

This season, they have gone on 28 flight missions for cloud seeding in Wyoming. This photo shows flares fixed on the aircraft's wing that house the silver iodide used for cloud seeding. Weather Modification International 2022Once the pilot flies into the storm, they ignite the cardboard casings full of silver iodide and “seed” the clouds. Their results, published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, managed to quantify how effective cloud seeding is. The amount of precipitation produced by cloud seeding — up to 10% — isn’t enough at all to quench the drought-stricken West.

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