Republican leaders urge college conference to ban transgender athletes amid San Jose State controversy

Republican leaders from Congress expressed “serious concern” with the Mountain West Conference about transgender women participating in women’s sports. Thirteen officials signed a letter to Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez, urging the conference to prohibit transgender athletes from playing against biological women. “We write with serious concerns about the safety and fair competition standards for…

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Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Apple urged a federal judge to dismiss the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against it, saying the government’s complaint includes speculative arguments and the government doesn’t plausibly argue it has monopoly power. “The court is allowed to use common sense,” countered DOJ…

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