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About three dozen people rallied outside the California Interscholastic Federation executive meeting in Costa Mesa on Friday before asking the CIF board to ban transgender females from competing in girls’ sports. Sophia Lorey, from a Christian advocacy group that organized the rally, also delivered to the board a petition she said was signed by nearly 20,000 Californians in support of repealing a bylaw that allows students the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner consistent with their gender identity. Sophia Lorey, a former CIF and collegiate athlete and current Outreach Director for California Family Council, urges the California…

By SARA CLINE and JACK BROOK NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional. The ruling on Friday marked a major win for civil liberties groups who say the mandate violates the separation of church and state, and that the poster-sized displays would isolate students — especially those who are not Christian. The mandate has been touted by Republicans, including President Donald Trump, and marks one of the latest pushes by conservatives to incorporate…

The Kings can never go through the preseason without their Real IDs and sometimes even their passports, and this upcoming exhibition schedule, released Friday, will be no different with seven games in seven different locales. There’ll be no exotic excursions (Australia in 2023 was their latest NHL Global Series trip) or homecomings (last year they traveled to Quebec, the native province of Phillip Danault and Luc Robitaille), but the Kings will chart new territory with a game in Boise, Idaho, this year. They’ll face the Utah Mammoth in that affair and another in Salt Lake City, in addition to traveling…

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ SAN FRANCISCO — California’s challenge of the Trump administration’s military deployment in Los Angeles returned to a federal courtroom in San Francisco on Friday for a brief hearing after an appeals court handed President Donald Trump a key procedural win. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer put off issuing any additional rulings and instead asked for briefings from both sides on whether the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits troops from conducting civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil, is being violated in Los Angeles. ALSO SEE: Appeals court lets Trump keep control of National Guard troops deployed to…

The 2024-25 NHL season just wrapped up but there’s already plenty in place for 2025-26 as the preseason schedules were released Friday, with the Ducks laying out their seven-game tuneup that will include three contests at Honda Center. They won’t leave the state for the entire exhibition docket. They’ll clash with the Kings four times, once in each home venue with additional Freeway Faceoffs scheduled in Ontario’s Toyota Arena and Bakersfield’s Dignity Health Arena, both of which are American Hockey League rinks. Additionally, the Ducks will play a home-and-home set with the San Jose Sharks and host the recently relocated…

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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with e-cigarette companies on Friday in a ruling making it easier to sue over Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking their products from the multibillion-dollar vaping market. The 7-2 opinion comes as companies push back against a yearslong federal regulatory crackdown on electronic cigarettes. It’s expected to give the companies more control over which judges hear lawsuits filed against the agency. The justices went the other way on vaping in an April decision, siding with the FDA in a ruling upholding a sweeping block on most sweet-flavored vapes instituted after…

IE VARSITY BOYS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR, 2024-25 Name: Eyan Turk School: Woodcrest Christian Year: Senior Sports: Cross Country, Track and Field Notable highlights: The final chapters of Eyan Turk’s storied career at Woodcrest Christian were riveting. Turk, a recent graduate who is headed to the University of Kentucky, defended his CIF State Division V individual cross country championship during the fall season. Turk then joined a select fraternity of Inland distance runners during the spring season, as he claimed the 3,200-meter title at this year’s CIF State Track and Field Championship and set a Riverside County record in the…

By TOM MURPHY A small, growing number of employers are putting health insurance decisions entirely in the hands of their workers. Instead of offering traditional insurance, they’re giving workers money to buy their own coverage in what’s known as Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements, or ICHRAs. Advocates say this approach provides small companies that couldn’t afford insurance a chance to offer something. It also caps a growing expense for employers and fits conservative political goals of giving people more purchasing power over their coverage. But ICHRAs place the risk for finding coverage on the employee, and they force them to…

By MICHAEL CASEY and REBECCA BOONE BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from withholding billions of dollars in transportation funds from states that don’t agree to participate in some immigration enforcement actions. Twenty states sued after they said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened to cut off funding to states that refused to comply with President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. barred federal transportation officials from carrying out that threat before the lawsuit is fully resolved. “The Court finds that the States have demonstrated they will face irreparable and continuing harm if forced to…