Day: March 8, 2024

Women’s pro golf tour updates policy to only allow biological females, banning trans golfer Hailey Davidson

5:56 pm March 8, 2024

The NXXT Women’s Pro Tour, a professional women’s golf tour based in Florida, has updated its policy to ban transgender athletes from competition, announcing Friday that only competitors who are “biological female at birth” will be able to participate in tour-sanctioned events. This decision follows transgender golfer Hailey Davidson’s controversial win at the NXXT Women’s […]

McCaul calls for dropping charges against Gold Star dad who protested State of the Union

5:52 pm March 8, 2024

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, called for the charges against the Gold Star father who interrupted President Biden’s State of the Union address to be dropped. Steve Nikoui, 51, is the father of Marine Corps Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed when an ISIS-K suicide bomber […]

Americans exposed to nuclear radiation by government would be compensated under approved Senate bill

5:09 pm March 8, 2024

The Senate passed legislation Thursday that would compensate Americans exposed to radiation by the government by renewing a law initially passed more than three decades ago. The bill by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., would expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to include more people who believe that exposure caused their […]

Naomi Barber King, civil rights leader and sister-in-law to Martin Luther King Jr., dies at 92

5:06 pm March 8, 2024

Naomi Barber King, a civil rights activist who was married to the younger brother of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at age 92. She died in Atlanta on Thursday, according to family members who issued a statement through the A.D. King Foundation. Naomi King established the organization in May 2008 with a […]

USA Today writer: ‘It matters that the faces of the future’ of women’s college basketball are Black

5:06 pm March 8, 2024

A USA Today writer posted an op-ed on Thursday stating that “the Black players who built women’s hoops…haven’t been acknowledged,” and “it matters that the faces of the future look like the faces of the past.” In the piece, with a headline, “Women’s basketball needs faces of future to be Black,” Lindsay Schnell, an enterprise […]