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Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen is up for reelection this year .
Her opponent, Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown , has publicly voiced support for the University of Nevada Reno volleyball team's decision to forfeit their upcoming match against San Jose State University .
The decision was made to protest the allowed participation of SJSU ’s Blaire Fleming , a trans-identifying male.
Slate Magazine
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Frida Ghitis: College football is not a sport where anything can happen.
She says the season has brought unique chaos, the kind of chaos that in some cases has never erupted before.
The most lopsided football and cultural matchup in any conference, for decades , has been the one between Alabama and Vanderbilt in the Southeastern Conference .
Ghitis asks: How much margin do Alabama , Notre Dame , and other blue bloods have?.
Will the national title eventually go to Georgia , Texas , Oregon , or Ohio State ? It sure will. Anarchy in college football doesn’t last forever. But the wide-open nature of the expanded playoff, coupled with the early failures of some giants, has made for an unusually uncertain environment. Meanwhile, a list of programs with very real playoff aspirations right now includes the following schools: Indiana , Iowa State and Pitt .
The American Spectator
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Last week , the U.S. Department of the Treasury , Financial Crimes Enforcement Network , and the Department of Justice levied an enormous $3 billion fine on TD Bank .
Peter Bergen : TD Bank was charged with inadequate monitoring of anti-money laundering protocols that allowed drug cartels to move over $670 million through its books over a six-year period ending in 2024 .
Canada 's hesitancy to fund its share in NATO is even more striking because of joint collaboration between Canada and the United States in the North American Aerospace Defense Command near Colorado Springs .
Frank Schell is a business strategy consultant and former senior vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago .
Schell : The next administration should call on Canada to strengthen its banking controls and accelerate its compliance with NATO ’s 2 percent requirement.
He says a new U.S. president should be Beijing , not Ottawa , and be neighborly.
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Former President Donald Trump pledged to keep trans-identifying men out of women’s sports if elected this November .
The moment came during a Fox News town hall with Georgia women voters moderated by Harris Faulkner .
Trump cited a recent incident of a trans-identified male volleyball player spiking the ball into the face of his female opponent.
The Daily Wire
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) hammered his leftist opponent, Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), over issues ranging from protecting girls’ and women’s sports to supporting Israel during a debate on Tuesday night .
Cruz blasted Allred over his record of support for boys competing in girl's sports.
Allred called Cruz a “threat to democracy” for objecting to certifying the 2020 Arizona election results.
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Former President Donald Trump sat down with the hosts of the “Bussin’ with the Boys’ podcast to talk about the election, the insanity of transgender athletes in women’s sports, and his resiliency.
Trump was asked how he planned to unite the country given the heated, divided state we have now.
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University of Nevada , Reno , is facing backlash over its refusal to support its women’s volleyball team.
The team had announced it would not be playing against San Jose State University’s women's team because of its trans-identifying male player.
The girls demanded “that our right to safety and fair competition on the court be upheld. We refuse to participate in any match that advances injustice against female athletes.” Later, the university released a statement showing it did not support the move.
The Daily Wire
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Gettysburg Area High School tennis coach David Yates , who goes by the name Sasha , resigned after pornographic videos surfaced.
In one video, Yates appears to be smoking meth, with the assistance of a woman, and asks, “Am I a good meth whore?” In another, Yates is seen bent over a counter wearing a black bra and having sex with a man wearing a ski mask.
Parents had long complained about Yates ’ behavior, including the time he went into the girls’ locker room and asked students about their underwear preference and menstruation.
America First Legal , a law firm representing Pennsylvania school districts, pressured school board members to renew Yates ’s contract by saying if they did not, they could be sued and held personally liable.
The board renewed Yates ' contract in a 6 -2 vote last month .
Yates resigned on September 30 , but the superintendent did not explain to the public why.
The Daily Wire
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The University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team announced on Monday that they would forfeit a match against San Jose State University rather than play against that school’s star player, a trans-identifying male.
The school is the first school to specifically cite fairness and safety concerns as reason for forfeit .
Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony (R-NV) also tweeted his support for the team.
Slate Magazine
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Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere in 2012 .
He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent.
He set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km ( 24 mi) and reached an estimated top speed of 1,357.64 km/ h.