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Partly sunny and breezy with a brief morning shower or 2, high 92
Virgin Islands Free Press
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August 24, 2025
[August 24] Today’s Main Hazard Risks Extreme Heat: Extreme Heat Warning and Heat Advisory! Stay hydrated and seek shade! Rip Currents and High Surf for the U.S. Virgin Islands, northern Puerto Rico, Culebra and Vieques / Don’t go in the water!...
States must ax transgender references from sex ed or risk losing funds, HHS says
NBC San Diego - California
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The Trump administration directed 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C., to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a...
Attorneys general urge tech companies’ action against nonconsensual deepfake pornography
Golden State Today - California
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August 26, 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with 47 other attorneys general, has sent letters to search and payment platform operators regarding their indirect roles in the creation and distribution of nonconsensual deepfake pornography....
States must ax transgender references from sex ed or risk losing funds, HHS says
NBC News
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August 26, 2025
The Trump administration directed 40 states, five territories and Washington, D.C., to remove references to transgender people from their sex education programs or risk losing federal funding. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a...
Worthington natives embark on world travel
The Globe - Minnesota
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August 26, 2025
WORTHINGTON — When Worthington natives Andrea Magana and Che Peralta began dating a little over two years ago, they discovered they shared a passion for travel. So, in early February, the couple set out on a six month trip full of adventures...
Why do HBCUs play football in NE Ohio? Pride, history and visibility are at stake
Cleveland.com - Ohio
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August 26, 2025
CANTON, Ohio – To understand the significance of historically black colleges and universities, you have to go back more than 150 years - not to educational institutions, but to churches. It was a time when laws restricted Black Americans from...
Politician profile: Albert Bryan Jr.
Pasquines
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August 26, 2025
Albert Bryan Jr. (D) has been the governor of the United States Virgin Islands since January 2019. Prior to his time in office, Bryan served his community in a variety of ways. He co-founded a nonprofit, worked for the Department of Labor, and...
Police shoot Seattle suspect dead in response to burglary at Frenchman’s Bay
Virgin Islands Free Press
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August 24, 2025
CHARLOTTE AMALIE – At approximately 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, August 24, 2025, the Virgin Islands Police Department’s (VIPD) Central Dispatch received a call from a female resident reporting a burglary in progress at her home in Frenchman’s Bay on St....
Estimated $750M Powerball jackpot up for grabs Monday night, drawing live at 11
CBS 12 - Florida
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Someone will get the chance to join the millionaire ranks. That's if they hit the jackpot and win the Powerball game. The Florida Lottery said the Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $750 million after no...
The Home Depot Announces Extension Of Tender Offer To Acquire GMS Inc.
MENAFN
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August 25, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) ATLANTA, Aug. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Home Depot ® announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Gold Acquisition Sub, Inc. ("Purchaser"), has extended the expiration date of its tender offer to purchase, subject to...
Kentucky Air National Guard to Conduct Island-Based Military Training Exercise on St. Croix
The Virgin Island Consortium
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The V.I. Police Department has informed residents that the Kentucky Air National Guard (KY ANG) will conduct a military training exercise on St. Croix from August 25 to September 4, 2025. The exercise is designed to simulate countering an enemy...
Powerball jackpot climbs to a staggering $750m, the 10th largest in lottery history
The Mirror US
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August 25, 2025
The Powerball jackpot is expected to rise a whopping $750 million on Monday's drawing, a prize that marks the 10th largest in the lottery's history, after no single player matched all numbers drawn on Saturday, Powerball said early Sunday....
Trump’s Crackdown on D.C. Homelessness Targets Black Residents Despite Declining Numbers
The Washington Informer
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August 20, 2025
Washington, D.C., is one of only six places in the United States where homelessness has fallen since 2019. Alongside its neighbor, Maryland, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mississippi, and Wyoming, the District posted reductions...
Penfed Credit Union Introduces Mobile Cash Deposit At Participating Retail Stores
MENAFN
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August 20, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) "PenFed is excited to offer our 2.9 million members the convenience of banking where they shop in tens of thousands of retail locations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands," said PenFed Chief Marketing...
Humanity is losing its war against an impossible predator
Daily Star
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August 25, 2025
From Beowulf's Grendel to Camus' plague-stricken Oran, literature has long grappled with terrors that haunt humanity—monsters, contagion, and invisible adversaries that test the limits of survival. Yet, no antagonist has been so enduring, so real,...
Where Are Chikungunya Cases Coming From in 2025
Precision Vaccinations
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(Vax-Before-Travel News)Before 2006, chikungunya fever infections were rarely identified in the United States. However, starting in 2014, cases of chikungunya began to appear among U.S. travelers returning from affected regions in the Americas....
Study suggests local source of Georgia melioidosis cases over the years
CIDRAP
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New research published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases provides another hint that a rare bacterial infection that's typically linked to travel to tropical regions might have domestic sources in the United States and could be tied to...
When does daylight saving time end? Here's when clocks fall back this year in Illinois
NBC 5 Chicago - Illinois
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August 23, 2025
There are still several weeks left in summer, but fall isn't too far away. The Chicago area is poised to get a taste of cooler temperatures this weekend, and before you know it, the fall season and shorter days will be here. Along with that, it...
‘The power of nurses must be apparent’ in these times: Dr Alicia Georges, RN
Caribbean Life - New York
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August 19, 2025
Registered Nurse Dr. Catherine Alicia Georges, a St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands-born professor and chairperson emerita of the Department of Nursing at Lehman College and professor at Meharry Medical College, says that the “power of nursing must be...
Prince Andrew’s sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre to publish bombshell tell-all autobiography from beyond the grave
The Scottish Sun
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August 24, 2025
PRINCE Andrew's sex abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre is to publish a bombshell autobiography from beyond the grave, The Sun can exclusively reveal. Virginia's self-penned memoir called 'Nobody's Girl' is set to hit bookshelves in October - six...