“A Maine principals’ group is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice that seeks the names of all students playing interscholastic sports in the state as the DOJ attempts to ban transgender athletes from participating. President Donald Trump’s administration sued Maine in April for not complying with an executive order barring transgender athletes from sports. The Justice Department followed up with a subpoena of the Maine Principals’ Association, a nonprofit that oversees school sports in Maine, seeking a host of information. The full scope of the subpoena isn’t public because a judge sealed it. However, in a Sept. 4 legal filing, the principals’ association said the subpoena included ‘requests for the production of all athletic rosters for the state,’ and would require providing ‘personally identifiable information of students, many of whom are unrelated to the underlying controversy.'” (09/11/25)
“A man at the center of a police manhunt tried fleeing into a nearby home, then was gunned down by the homeowner, Texas police say. The suspect, who police have not publicly identified, is accused of shooting a woman and a police officer on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 10, kicking off an hours-long search, Austin Police Department Chief Lisa Davis said during a news briefing. … the accused shooter tried to escape by entering a house, Davis said. However, the homeowner was ‘prepared,’ and quickly opened fire on the intruder, shooting him in an arm and a leg, she said. The man was taken into custody, Davis said.” (09/10/25)
“In what Utah’s governor called a political assassination, a sniper shot and killed influential conservative Charlie Kirk on Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, as he engaged students in a question and answer-style debate. The killer remains at large, but Gov. Spencer Cox vowed that federal and state law enforcement officials would capture the shooter, even as President Donald Trump and other world leaders condemned the attack and the angry divides plaguing the country. … Kirk was in the middle of answering politically charged questions about mass shootings in America when he was murdered, said Deseret News reporter Emma Pitts, who together with Deseret News reporter Eva Terry was covering Kirk’s campus rally and each witnessed the shooting.” (09/10/25)
“Tehran and the UN nuclear inspectorate have reached an agreement that will allow UN inspectors to return to inspect all of Iran’s nuclear sites, including those bombed by Israel and the US in June. The breakthrough, confirmed by Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, came during a three-hour meeting on Monday between Grossi and the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Cairo. Agreement on the return of the UN inspectors is one of the preconditions set by European leaders for them to defer a plan to reimpose sweeping UN sanctions on Iran at the end of this month. … One of Iran’s concerns is that the IAEA, an agency distrusted by Iranian conservatives, would feed the information it garnered to Israel or the US on the state of its nuclear plans and this would be used to refine further military assaults on Iran’s nuclear sites.” (09/10/25)
“In a major decision, a state appeals court Wednesday ruled that Florida’s ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Second Amendment issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation’s ‘historical tradition of firearm regulation.’ ‘No historical tradition supports Florida’s open carry ban,’ Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. ‘To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly. That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation.'” [editor’s note: The Second Amendment says EXACTLY that the right to keep and bear arms is absolute and that there’ no such thing as “reasonable” regulation – TLK] (09/10/25)
“Rolling across the rugged, rusty red terrain on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover came upon some rocks with peculiar green, blue, black and white dots. After detailed image analysis, scientists have come to a potentially encouraging conclusion: If those speckled rocks were formed like they are on Earth, they might be evidence of past life on the dusty planet. The rocks ‘very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting,’ acting NASA administrator Sean P. Duffy said in a news conference Wednesday. The findings were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The rocks, or mudstones, are composed of finely packed sediment and covered in specks resembling poppy seeds and leopard spots. The colorful features, the study found, are minerals that — on Earth — have traditionally been created from microbial activity.” (09/10/25)
“The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex as ‘determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth.’ The court’s brief order was unsigned and gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. It applied to a single student and stressed that it was ‘not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation.’ Rather, in rejecting South Carolina’s request to bar the student from the boys’ bathroom for now, the order said the state had not cleared the high bar for securing an emergency ruling in its favor. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch noted dissents but did not offer reasons.” (09/10/25)
“Three former senior FBI officials summarily fired last month are suing FBI Director Kash Patel and the Trump administration, alleging that their terminations were part of a White House-directed purge driven at least in part by social media bullying from MAGA loyalists. Brian Driscoll, the former acting FBI director for a month at the start of the second Trump administration; Steven Jensen, who Patel installed as assistant director in charge the Washington field office; and Spencer Evans, who led the Las Vegas field office, allege that Patel has politicized the FBI to protect his own job. ‘Patel not only acted unlawfully but deliberately chose to prioritize politicizing the FBI over protecting the American people,’ the lawsuit states.” (09/10/25)
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Johnson & Johnson’s drug delivery system for a type of bladder cancer, offering a potential surgery-free option for patients. The drug release system, branded as Inlexzo, was approved for patients with a type of high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who did not respond to treatment with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin therapy, the current standard-of-care, and are ineligible for, or refuse to undergo bladder removal surgery. … The approval was based on data from a mid-stage study, in which more than 82% of the patients who received Inlexzo showed no signs of cancer, and over half of them remained cancer-free for at least a year.” (09/10/25)
“After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation. It was a sharp contrast from a January misdemeanor arrest, where it took more than six months for a court to order a mental evaluation after Brown told officers that he had been given a human-made substance that controlled when he ate, talked or walked. The Justice Department on Tuesday charged Brown, 34, with causing death on a mass transportation system last month when he allegedly killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in what has become the latest flashpoint for the White House’s efforts to paint Democratic-led cities as havens for violent criminals.” (09/10/25)
