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A child in West Virginia will be allowed to try out for her middle school s track and field team next week after a federal appeals court ruling temporarily paused the state ban preventing transgender students from joining girls sports teams.The 4th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday, by a 2-1 vote, to reinstate a preliminary injunction that for a time froze the ban which was originally signed into law by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice in 2021. A federal judge dissolved the injunction last month, saying the ban mdash; which applies to middle school, high school and college sports
stanley cup teams statewide mdash; was constitutional and could remain in place. That decision also said the ban did not violate Title IX, the landmark 1972 legislation that ruled against sex-based discrimination in any school or education program that receives federal funding.This week s ruling will prevent school districts from enforcing the law while an app
stanley cup eal is heard. After the ban was first passed nearly two years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union and its West Virginia chapter filed a lawsuit on behalf of Becky Pepper-Jackson, then an 11-year-old transgender student-athlete who hoped to compete on the girls cross country team at her middle school in Harrison County. We are thrilled that Becky will get to continue to participate
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WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department on Friday released the names of two Army Rangers who died during a raid on a compound in Afghanistan on Thursday.Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, were killed by small arms fire during an operation targeting the emir of the Afghan branch of the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq ISIS in Nangarhar province,
stanley cups the Pentagon said.The Pentagon is investigating whether the soldiers died as a result of friendly fire. That may have been what happened here, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said dur
converse ing a briefing Friday. Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, were killed in action in Afghanistan on April 27, 2017 Defense Department The firefight in which they were killed took place south of an ISIS cave complex targeted in April by the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the U.S. in combat, CBS News national security
mizuno correspondent David Martin reports. The target of the raid was Abdul Hasid, the emir of ISIS Khorasan, the group s Afghan branch. Hasid was believed to be hiding in the compound close to the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The raid was conducted by 50 Army Rangers and 40 Afghan commandos on Thursday, the Pentagon said.The mission was considered high-risk and Gen. John Nicholson, commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, per
