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South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has vowed to fight back against the Biden administration's proposed set of Title IX rules to expand the meaning of sexual discrimination to include gender identity that would prevent schools and colleges from barring biologically male transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams. Under the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rule, no

The body of a South Carolina teenager believed to have been murdered on or near a dark road several years back has been exhumed, a family attorney said in a statement released Sunday. Stephen Smith was found dead on Sandy Run Road, of blunt force trauma, in Hampton County, on July 8, 2015. Shifting narratives plagued the case. According to his mother, Sandy Smith, the family was told her son

(NewsNation) — Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi and obliterating buildings in their wake. Along with the almost 2 dozen deaths, even more people are injured, and four are missing, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said on Twitter. “Unfortunately, these numbers are expected to change,” the agency wrote.

At least 20 people were shot, three of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported that the weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 7:00 p.m. Friday night following a verbal altercation. Seventeen-year-old Daniel Rios was shot “in the 670- block of West Belmont Avenue” after the altercation. He died later in a hospital. At