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President Joe Biden created the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Pennsylvania on Monday to underscore the oppression Indigenous people faced there, reports @ShauneenMiranda.
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Update: I have received more information from the First Foundation regarding this project and will be writing a followup later today that, hopefully, addresses some of the unknowns
The West Virginia First Foundation on Monday approved committing $20 million to a regional addiction recovery project, reports @caitycoyne.
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Increasingly, women say they are being denied routine miscarriage care in states where doctors face imprisonment if they perform an abortion unless a woman is at risk of dying, reports @SofiaResnick
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The West Virginia First Foundation on Monday approved committing $20 million to a regional addiction recovery project, reports @caitycoyne.
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President-elect Donald Trump vowed to sign an executive order on his first day in office to end the constitutional right to U.S. citizenship for anyone born in the country, reports @ArianaLFigueroa.
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West Virginia's Republican-led Legislature is trying to figure out how to help teachers deal with worsening elementary student behaviors that are crippling teaching time, reports @AmeliaKnisely.
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President-elect Donald Trump wants to jail former and current members of Congress who investigated his incitement of the violent Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, he told NBC News Sunday, reports @Ashley_Murray.
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Weeks after the city of Clarksburg passed a law aimed at homeless people camping in public, a group of residents is asking city council to reconsider the law, or put it to a city vote, reports @LoriKerseyWV.
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Applications are now being accepted for a drought relief program funded by the state of West Virginia.
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Congress will not expand access to in vitro fertilization for active duty military members and their families in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that sets policy for the Pentagon, reports @JenniferShutt.
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State and local leaders gathered on Wednesday to discuss challenges with West Virginia’s drug and overdose epidemic, including ongoing difficulties in both identifying and preventing HIV and hepatitis among people who use drugs, @caitycoyne reports buff.ly/4f1wP9b
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Randy Smith, former coal miner turned politician, nominated as next Senate President, @ameliaknisely reports buff.ly/3VsKHT0
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Republican AGs sue BlackRock, other investment firms over ‘woke’ climate action efforts buff.ly/3Zh3nX2
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Federal appeals court upholds rapidly approaching TikTok ban buff.ly/3D39rLo
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Panel on Trump assassination attempts wraps up with Secret Service pledge of improvements buff.ly/4goYsKq
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From @ameliaknisely: Special session idea comes and goes after confusion about who could vote buff.ly/3Vr4ySN
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Hundreds submit applications, policy ideas to Governor-elect Morrisey as inauguration approaches buff.ly/3Bjz61N
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PEIA finance board approves rate increases for 2026 , @lorikerseywv reports buff.ly/3CW9NmQ
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Just seven states now require students to pass a test to graduate, and one of those — New York — will end its Regents Exam as a requirement by the 2027-28 school year, reports @espovich.
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