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Family
Columbia should stop fighting Boone County school choice
Judge Emily J. Fretwell rejected Columbia Public Schools’ challenge to SB 727, but the district says it will appeal as Frontier Charter prepares to open in 2027.
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New York is losing its families, and its own enrollment report proves it
A comptroller’s report says enrollment fell by nearly 187,000 students since 2013–14, while city leaders face further declines and families leave as children grow.
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Culture
Texas must protect children online—and the Fifth Circuit has reopened the fight
The Oct. 28 order vacated the panel ruling that blocked Texas’s monitoring-and-filtering rule, giving the full Fifth Circuit a fresh chance to uphold it.
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News
Pedro de Corpa and four friars beatified for defending marriage
In Savannah on Oct. 31, Cardinal Frank Leo declared the five Franciscan martyrs “blessed,” renewing the Church’s witness to marriage and family.
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Libs of TikTok links Texas check-theft case to ballots
The post says a Texas USPS employee was charged over city checks, then invokes mail-in ballots; local reports identify school-tax checks in the case.
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Babies aren’t commodities. Ban surrogacy after California abuse case
Prosecutors allege daily beatings in the California case, while @BillboardChris says babies aren’t commodities and calls for a ban on surrogacy.
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Mike Rogers’ pro-life record is a credential, not a scandal
Days before Michigan’s Senate election, Rogers’s pro-life record puts the stakes for families and Democrats’ attack on it before voters.
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Penn is running out the clock on the women it failed
A federal court has kept the former Penn swimmers’ Title IX case on hold indefinitely, even after the university apologized to affected female swimmers.
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Stefany Shaheen’s “case-by-case” answer fails girls’ sports
In the final debate before Tuesday’s election, Shaheen rejected a federal rule and left girls’ sports to case-by-case local decisions.
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Britain’s draft bill puts parents’ right to guide children at risk
Britain’s draft sets a five-year maximum and leaves parents without an express exemption as Parliament’s committee scrutinizes the bill.
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