Texas Attorney General sues US Masters Swimming after controversial trans athlete controversy in San Antonio

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Thursday he is suing U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS), a competitive swimming membership organization with over 60,000 adult swimmers.  The lawsuit is a response to an event in San Antonio where a biological male trans athlete won five women’s gold medals.  Multiple female competitors told Fox News Digital after the…

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Trump Interior Department moves to dismantle ‘regulatory favoritism’ for wind, solar projects

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) said Thursday it was adding “enhanced oversight” of agency decisions about new wind and solar projects in an effort to end “favoritism” of these “unreliable” and “subsidy-dependent” energy systems from the previous administration. The new directive updates review procedures that will require senior leadership at the Interior Department,…

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PETA applauds GOP lawmakers’ demand to halt NIH funding for ‘cruel’ overseas animal testing

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is applauding a letter sent Thursday by Republican lawmakers to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, urging the agency to stop using taxpayer dollars for experiments on animals conducted in foreign laboratories.  The letter, signed by Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, and Sen. Rick Scott,…

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Legendary skydiver Felix Baumgartner, best known for free fall from space, dies in paragliding accident

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian skydiver best known for his record-setting dive from space, died in a paragliding accident in Italy Thursday, according to Italian officials. He was 56.  Baumgartner was reportedly flying a motorized paraglider in the coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio in the Marche region of Italy, where he was said to have crashed into…

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