• Rochester schools spend $136K excluding white teachers

• South Carolina challenges Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding

• Cincinnati Children’s Hospital restricts opportunities by race

• Canadian company rejects pro-life Christmas billboard

• Biden trades prisoner convicted of child pornography

• Canadian MP claims Jesus was democratic socialist

• One Million Moms warns about ‘Wicked’ film adaptation

• Pastor tells schoolchildren Santa isn’t real

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• UMinn conducts transgender doll study with children

• California school assigns coming out roleplay exercise

• Pixar removes transgender storyline from upcoming series

• Newton school holds pre-Christmas “Queer Jeopardy” event

• ADF launches new Center for Free Speech

• Woman wins discrimination case over mask-inhaler incident

• DeSantis receives award for defeating Amendment 4

• Retail closures increase 69% through November

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• UCSF requires controversial racial training for doctors

• Netflix releases unconventional Christmas nativity animation

• Canadian assisted dying program reaches record numbers

• Sanders responds to UnitedHealthcare CEO murder

• DC restaurant workers plan service-based political protest

• Starbucks shifts focus back to coffee services

• Trump announces plan to end time changes

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• Congress bans gender transition surgeries

• Rob Schneider developing alternative talk show

• FEMA attends climate conference during hurricane

• Abortion clinics shift to mail-order pills

• CNN drops in primetime ratings

• Ohio considers felony flag planting law

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• UCLA student sues doctors over youth gender transition

• Meta donates $1M to Trump inaugural fund

• Pink News faces staff harassment allegations

• Michigan proposing new sex education legislation

• Caitlin Clark named TIME Athlete of Year

• Shoplifter arrested during police charity event

• Broward County vacating 1990s drug convictions

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• Washington creates ‘open division’ for sports competitions

• San Diego votes to expand sanctuary protections

• URI offers 51 race-restricted scholarships

• ExxonMobil requires Hispanic ancestry for fellowship

• Gen Z workers avoid interaction with older colleagues

• Sam’s Club to offer mifepristone medication

• Mexican Christian persecution reaches new peak

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• Google’s Christmas ad features bearded influencer in lipstick

• UK bans puberty blockers for minors

• Zero anti-trans bias murders reported in 2024

• Trump calls Trudeau “Governor of the Great State of Canada”

• Biden considers removing Al-Qaeda offshoot from terror list

• Canadian media claims male athletic advantages are “myth”

• First Nativity scene approved for U.S. Capitol steps

• TikTok claims constitutional protection against U.S. ban

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• Denver is bidding to host the 2030 Gay Games, incorporating gender-neutral facilities and indigenous ceremonies in their presentation

• Rep. Nancy Mace reported being attacked by a protestor on Capitol Hill, following transgender activists protesting her bathroom resolution

• HHS celebrated “Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day”

• A Southern California school district spent $12,000 for six hours of transgender activist training for 1,100 staff members

• FBI and Treasury Department conducted warrantless searches of bank records, flagging purchases from Bible stores and outdoor retailers

• Trump indicated he may not restrict mail-order abortion drugs

• California Democrats are working to protect abortion pill manufacturers from liability

• A British case resulted in a 12-year sentence for a man who secretly gave abortion pills to his pregnant girlfriend

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• German courts convicted a counter-jihad activist of “incitement to hatred” after surviving an Islamist knife attack

• Swedish law preventing prosecution of under-15s has led to gang recruitment of child assassins through social media

• Minnesota Governor Tim Walz reflected on election results and DEI initiative pushback

• Virginia realtor faces license loss over sharing religious content from 2015

• Contrasting German legal cases: American woman faces prison for self-defense while assault perpetrators received suspended sentences

• Fairfax County Schools suggests Christians avoid using pronouns and certain bathroom facilities

• YouTube announces demonetization of AI pornography creation tutorials

• Lawsuit targets youth gender medicine practitioner over treatment protocols and buried study results

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• Oregon mandates insurance coverage for gender surgeries, including for minors, based on WPATH guidelines, while not requiring coverage for detransition procedures

• Barrhead, Alberta voted to ban pride flags and rainbow crosswalks from public property with a 57% majority

• CDC’s 2025 vaccine schedule recommends 36 doses by age two and over 70 doses by age eighteen

• Conservative MP Jamil Jivani highlights 112 burned or vandalized churches in Canada since 2021 while Parliament displays Christmas tree

• Syracuse judge Felicia Pitts-Davis faced backlash for arranging alternative judge for same-sex ceremony

• LPGA implements new policy restricting male-bodied golfers from women’s tournaments starting 2025

• Canada plans to send confiscated civilian firearms to Ukraine, with indigenous weapons exempted

• EPA makes first climate-related arrest for “smuggling potent greenhouse gases,” with $1.7 billion in penalties and 480 open investigations

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