Residents of a small <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio</a> town were ordered to evacuate after a massive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fire</a> was caused by a 50-car train derailment Friday. 
People living in East Palestine, Ohio, were told to evacuate if they lived within a one-mile radius of the train crash, which spawned a massive fire that lit up the night sky at around 9:00 p.m. Friday.
“If you are within a one-mile radius of the James Street crossing please evacuate,” <a href="https://www.whsv.com/video/2023/02/04/mayor-orders-evacuations-after-ohio-train-derailment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Mayor Trent Conaway, who added that the EPA was monitoring the air quality around the town of just over 4,700 people. 
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During the derailment, several trains caught on fire and were carrying hazardous materials, <a href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/local/2023/02/04/train-derailment-fire-cause-evacuation-in-east-palestine/69873130007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to East Palestine Fire Chief Keith A. Drabick. “If you have to come to East Palestine, don’t,” he said. “Stay out of the area.”
According to Norfolk Southern, the train&#8217;s operator, <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2023-02-04/ohio-train-derailment-causes-causes-fire-home-evacuations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about</a> 20 of the train’s 100 cars had hazardous materials including “flammables, combustibles, or environmental risks.” The train, bound for Conway, Pennsylvania, was coming from Madison, Illinois. There have been no reported injuries or deaths yet as a result of the crash and subsequent fire. 
While the cause of the crash is currently unknown, a team from the National Safety Transportation Board is being sent out to investigate. Firefighting teams from three states came to help, according to Conaway, though they struggled to douse the fire because of frigid conditions. East Palestine is not far from Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 
Evacuation shelters at a local high school and community center were opened for those residents (between 1,500-2,000) who were told to leave. &#8220;We&#8217;re glad to be here for the community,&#8221; <a href="https://www.wfmj.com/story/48310981/east-palestine-families-seek-shelter-following-massive-fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> East Palestine City Schools Superintendent Chris Neifer. &#8220;There&#8217;s really nowhere else to go unless you&#8217;re going out of town at this point.&#8221;
One local, William Hugar, told WFMJ that the fire came near his house. “When the fire started spreading behind my house, I knew it was time to go,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Police came up and told me. I knew it was time to evacuate.&#8221;
Another local, Ann McAnlis, said she learned of the fire from a neighbor. “And my neighbor texted me and she asked me if I knew that there was an accident with the trains. She took a picture of the glow in the sky from the front porch. That&#8217;s when I knew how substantial this was,” she said.

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A woman working at a Dollar Tree in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> was brutally murdered by a man with a machete on New Year&#8217;s Day.
Chronicles Magazine Senior Writer Pedro Gonzalez, who lives near where the murder took place, shared the story on Twitter Monday. He also shared a GoFundMe for the family&#8217;s funerary expenses. According to local news reports, the man allegedly walked into the store and slashed the woman to death, before turning himself in to police.
&#8220;On New Year’s Day, Bethel Bekele entered a Dollar Tree with a machete, approached Keris Riebel while she was working, and hacked her to death,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1610016320749174784?s=20&amp;t=wlEs0N2cFxf56PWKs6DQ8Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gonzalez</a> wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Police don’t have a motive and, for some odd reason, this isn’t a national story.&#8221;
&#8220;Riebel, 22, was just married, which is why pretty all public pictures of her are proposal/wedding related,&#8221; he added in a <a href="https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1610016973206786048?s=20&amp;t=KoJrmQweQ9lrkjiRyxRJOQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> that linked to her family&#8217;s GoFundMe. As of the publication of this piece, the fundraiser has taken in more than $38,000, surpassing the $30,000 goal.
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1adg3ll r-1udh08x">The Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Police Department released a statement of their own on Facebook detailing the events of the day. &#8220;On January 01, 2023, at 4:25 p.m. the Upper Sandusky Police Department was dispatched to Dollar Tree for a man waving a weapon around inside the store,&#8221; police chief Jared Lucas wrote in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UpperSanduskyPolice/posts/538558128301611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;Before police arrived, the man left the store. Officers arrived and found a female employee deceased. A short time later an officer located a suspect and he was taken into custody. Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is currently processing the crime scene. The Wyandot County Major Crimes Unit is currently investigating the incident.&#8221;</div>
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Lucas added some details to the story in an interview with local news outlet <a href="https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/-dollar-tree-store-employee-worker-weapon-woman-dead-upper-sandusky-police-northwest-ohio-wyandot-county-murdered-with-machete-attack-new-years-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC 6</a>. According to Lucas, the suspect, &#8220;Bekele entered the store with the machete, approached Riebel, and struck her numerous times with the machete.&#8221; He said that other people were in the store at the time. Bekele then drove to the Wyandot County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. Deputies there approached him, and he surrendered to them.
The suspect has no apparent criminal history, and police are still investigating the connection between him and the victim. It is unclear what the motive was.
The machete attack in Ohio came just a day after three <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-nypd-officers-injured-in-new-years-eve-machete-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> police officers were attacked by a man wielding a machete.
The attack happened at West 52nd Street and 8th Avenue outside the security screening zone Saturday at roughly 10:11 p.m., NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said during a news conference, noting that she was sharing preliminary information.
The suspect, identified as a 19-year-old man, approached one officer from behind “unprovoked” and attempted to strike him over the head with a machete, Sewell said. The suspect then allegedly struck two other officers in the head with the weapon.
One of the officers shot the suspect in the shoulder, Sewell said.
All three officers were taken to a hospital and are in stable condition. The suspect was also taken to the hospital for treatment. The NYPD shared a photo of the weapon allegedly used in the attack on social media.
One officer, identified as an eight-year veteran, sustained a laceration to the head. Another officer, who graduated from the police academy on Friday, suffered a skull fracture and large laceration, Sewell said.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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A disease that U.S. health officials declared as eliminated at the turn of the century has surged back in recent weeks, sending dozens of children to hospitals.
At least <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-measles-outbreak-82-children-infected-unvaccinated-babies-toddlers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">82 children</a> in central Ohio have contracted measles over the last two months, with at least 32 needing to be hospitalized due to the severity of the patient&#8217;s symptoms. The 82 cases represents a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/ohio-county-reports-more-than-measles-cases-majority-countrys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">majority</a> of the 117 cases in the U.S.
All of the cases <a href="https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/columbus/viz/MeaslesPublicReport/MeaslesPublicReport?publish=yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Columbus Public Health have involved individuals under the age of 17, with the majority being toddlers and infants.
The surge in cases comes decades after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared in 2000 that it had been eliminated from the U.S.
&#8220;Measles was declared eliminated (absence of continuous disease transmission for greater than 12 months) from the United States in 2000,&#8221; the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html#:~:text=Measles%20was%20declared%20eliminated%20(absence,control%20in%20the%20Americas%20region." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a past statement. &#8220;This was thanks to a highly effective vaccination program in the United States, as well as better measles control in the Americas region.&#8221;
When the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/patient-ed/conversations/downloads/vacsafe-mmr-color-office.pdf">declares</a> that a disease has been &#8220;eliminated,&#8221; it means that if the disease is introduced into a community it has a hard time spreading to other people because the overwhelming majority of people are immune to it.
The CDC warns that measles can be &#8220;serious&#8221; for many people who contract it, &#8220;especially for babies and young children.&#8221;
&#8220;Children younger than 5 years of age and adults older than 20 years of age are more likely to suffer from complications,&#8221; the CDC says. &#8220;Common complications are ear infections and diarrhea. Serious complications include pneumonia and encephalitis.&#8221;
Of the 82 cases reported in Ohio, 74 children were unvaccinated against the disease, four were partially vaccinated, none were fully vaccinated, and four children&#8217;s vaccination status was unknown, local health officials said.
&#8220;Measles symptoms appear 7 to 14 days after contact with the virus and typically include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes,&#8221; the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/measles/symptoms/signs-symptoms.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>. &#8220;Measles rash appears 3 to 5 days after the first symptoms.&#8221;

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Police searching for a kidnapped infant in Indiana found him at a restaurant, moments after they had given up searching.
Five month-old twins Kyair and Kason Thomas went missing last week. Police found Kyair hours later, outside the Dayton International Airport in Ohio. Police in Indianapolis spent most of Thursday searching for the car that Kason was believed to be in; officers gave up the search late Thursday afternoon and stopped at a local restaurant to eat. Right then and there, officers found the car and the boy.
“We stopped to decompress and talk about the day and what happen to Kason so as parents we understand,&#8221; Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer Shawn Anderson told local news station <a href="https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/baby-at-center-of-amber-alert-found-in-car-after-2-days-woman-arrested/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WISH-TV</a>. &#8220;It was time for us to decompress because we were disappointed that we could not find him and then God opened up the heavens to us and almost took him and put him right in our hands.”
According to WISH, the two officers stopped searching for the day and stopped to eat at a restaurant. Across the parking lot from the restaurant at a Papa John&#8217;s pizzeria, the officers spotted the black Honda Accord the kidnapper had used to steal the infant. An employee of the Papa John&#8217;s noticed the car sitting in the parking lot, but said that abandoned cars are fairly common so he thought nothing of it. “Fortunately, they found a baby in the car that had been sitting there for a few days,&#8221; the employee said. &#8220;Thank God he was OK.”
The employee also said that he saw the suspect on Tuesday when she inquired about a job. “She came in Tuesday morning probably around 8 o’ clock and was asking about bus passes and asking if we were hiring. I didn’t think too much about it. She was here for about 20 minutes and left and walked right past the car, and I didn’t see her again.”
Kason and Kyair were <a href="https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/ohio-amber-alert-issued-after-twin-babies-disappear-with-car-from-parking-lot/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kidnapped</a> on Monday. Their mother, Wilhelmina, was picking up a DoorDash order from Donato&#8217;s Pizza in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. She left the car running while she picked up the order.
The suspect, later identified as Nalah Jackson, reportedly left the restaurant out a side door, got into the running car, and sped away with the twins still inside. According to police, Jackson is homeless and had a previous criminal record that included theft, receiving stolen property, interference with custody, and endangering children.
Kyair was found in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday morning. A traveler walking around the economy parking lot at Dayton International Airport, nearly an hour&#8217;s drive away from Columbus, around 4:15 A.M. Tuesday, when he heard a baby crying. He found Kyair Thomas in a car seat, wrapped in a quilt, in the lot. The traveler called 911, and police arrived on scene and took charge of the infant. He has since been reunited with his parents.
Jackson was charged with two counts of kidnapping by the Franklin County court on Tuesday, and a warrant was issued for her arrest. She was <a href="https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/columbus-police-announce-charges-against-woman-accused-kidnapping-twin-5-month-old-boys/530-475879f4-f0fe-43b0-a4bb-17e5dfcfa407" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> on Wednesday. According to WISH, she faces charges in Ohio, and federal charges for taking Kason Thomas across state lines.

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A man was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of killing eight members of an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> family in 2016.
George Wagner IV sat in court as the victims&#8217; loved ones described their grief, with the former girlfriend of one of the slain individuals telling him to “burn in hell.”
One of the most tragic moments came when a letter was read from one of the victim’s 9-year-old son, who asked Wagner, “Why did you kill my daddy?”
Authorities alleged that Wagner, his brother, and their parents planned the murders as part of a dispute over custody of Wagner’s niece. The niece’s mother was one of the victims.
Wagner refused to speak during the sentencing, and his lawyer said the convicted murderer still says he is innocent. Wagner has repeatedly denied knowledge of his family’s involvement in the shooting deaths of seven adults and one teenager of the Rhoden Family more than six years ago, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/man-gets-life-sentence-for-killing-8-members-of-ohio-family?fbclid=IwAR3uMZO3GqxfTtwszs7ZEqHK3gh-jxdAaAhqhVUd7Fp_nQ7axJemFwg94FA">reported</a>. Prosecutors alleged at trial that the victims were killed while they slept, with some killed as they slept next to their young children, who were unharmed.
The murders took place at three separate mobile homes and a camper near Piketon, Ohio, and were initially suspected by residents as being the work of a drug cartel. Prosecutors alleged that Wagner was with his brother and father when they entered the homes and murdered the family members, helping to move two bodies afterward. The investigation into the crimes cost millions of dollars and has become one of the state’s most expensive murder investigations.
Wagner’s attorneys insisted that he didn’t kill anyone and that denying him &#8220;a meaningful chance of parole&#8221; constituted cruel and unusual punishment banned by the U.S. Constitution. His attorneys also requested a new trial, but Judge Randy Deering denied their motion.
Wagner was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/shootings-ohio-94153dcdd2b2e93b64581a4e76b3398b">convicted on 22 counts</a>, including eight counts of aggravated murder. He is one of four defendants in the murders and the first to face trial.
His brother, Edward “Jake,” pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and other charges, admitting his guilt in five of the shootings. He is expected to be sentenced to life in prison, the AP reported.
Wagner’s mother, Angela, pleaded guilty to her role in planning the murders. Prosecutors have recommended she receive a 30-year sentence. Angela’s husband, George “Billy” Wagner III, pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.

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An Ohio teacher is suing her former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education">school</a> after she was forced to quit her job for not using students&#8217; new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender">gender</a> identity pronouns, she says.
Vivian Geraghty, 24, a former English teacher, has filed a lawsuit against Jackson Memorial Middle School south of Columbus. She says district officials forced her out even though her Christian religious beliefs prevent her from using students’ preferred pronouns.
The teacher&#8217;s <a href="https://adflegal.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/Geraghty-v-Jackson-LSDBOE-2022-12-12-Complaint.pdf">lawsuit</a>, filed last week in federal court, accuses the school of retaliating against her for exercising her right to free speech as well as violating her right to practice her Christian religion. The suit also names the education board and two school district employees.
Geraghty quit her teaching position about a week later on August 26, according to her lawsuit.
The problem started when two students asked Geraghty to use new names that align “with their new gender identities rather than their legal names.” One of the students also requested that teachers use a preferred pronoun, the lawsuit alleges.
Geraghty went to the principal in hopes of reaching a solution, but the principal and his superior, the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, told her “she would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant,” according to the lawsuit. She was allegedly accused of insubordination and told that continuing to teach without participating with the students&#8217; gender transitions would “not work in a district like Jackson.”
She was informed that if she would not participate, she must resign immediately, the lawsuit claims.
Geraghty says she attempted to tell the principal that forcing her to resign was a violation of her free speech, but the principal repeated that as a public servant she must “set [her] religious convictions aside” or resign. The principal&#8217;s superior then handed her a laptop and told her to draft her letter of resignation immediately, the lawsuit says.
Geraghty is represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which <a href="https://adflegal.org/press-release/ohio-public-school-teacher-forced-resign-declining-put-religious-beliefs-aside">filed</a> the lawsuit on her behalf.
“No school official can force a teacher to set her religious beliefs aside in order to keep her job,&#8221; said ADF attorney Logan Spena. &#8220;The school tried to force Vivian to recite as true the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students. The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power.”
Geraghty is not the first teacher to be disciplined over refusing to affirm a student&#8217;s new gender identity.
In March, a veteran teacher in Kansas, also a Christian, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/teacher-suspended-not-using-students-preferred-pronouns-sues-school-1686518">sued</a> her school after she was suspended under the district&#8217;s bullying and diversity and inclusion policies. That teacher was also denied the religious exemption she requested for the district&#8217;s new policy that teachers must use students&#8217; preferred names.
Back in 2018, a Christian teacher in Indiana <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/doj-says-christian-teacher-must-use-students-preferred-pronouns">lost his job</a> after the school district decided to stop letting him refer to all students by their last names so he would not have to affirm &#8220;transgenderism.&#8221;

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New <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/books">author</a> Chelsea Banning was feeling sad following the low turnout at her book signing but then got support from some of the most famous authors in the world.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a> native posted about the event on her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">Twitter</a> account. Banning told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140833403/a-new-writer-tweeted-about-a-low-book-signing-turnout-and-famous-authors-commise">NPR</a> that nearly 40 people had responded that they would attend her signing at Pretty Good Books in Ashtabula, Ohio, but on that night, only two fans showed up.
&#8220;I was discouraged and bummed and I felt bad that the bookstore owner opened his store for me,&#8221; she said.
The first-time author had just published the fantasy novel “Of Crowns and Legends.” It’s meant to be the first book of a trilogy about King Arthur&#8217;s children.
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Rather than sulking away in shame, Banning shared her experience on social media and was shocked to find some of the best-selling authors of all time commiserating with her.
&#8220;Only 2 people came to my author signing yesterday, so I was pretty bummed about it. Especially as 37 people responded &#8216;going&#8217; to the event. Kind of upset, honestly, and a little embarrassed,&#8221; the author <a href="https://twitter.com/chelseabwrites/status/1599396859394789382">shared</a> with her followers.
Banning couldn’t believe it when some of her favorite authors replied to her tweet. &#8220;I stayed up until 1 a.m. in complete shock, just watching it happen,&#8221; she reportedly said.
“Terry Pratchett and I did a signing in Manhattan for Good Omens that nobody came to at all.  So you are two up on us,” British author Neil Gaiman, who wrote “Coraline” and “American Gods,” said in <a href="https://twitter.com/neilhimself/status/1599776707392679936">reply</a>. 
“I have sat lonely at a signing table many times only to have someone approach…and ask me where the bathroom is,” New York Times best-selling author Jodi Picoult <a href="https://twitter.com/jodipicoult/status/1599582446923567104">agreed</a>. 
“Can&#8217;t beat my record.  One (1) person turned up at a signing once.  We had a lovely conversation and went to coffee.  Lemonade!” fantasy and sci-fi writer Robin Hobb <a href="https://twitter.com/robinhobb/status/1599599893756379136">chimed in</a>.
“I did a book reading where only my husband’s cousin showed up. One person. I’ll never forget that reading,” Min Jin Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/minjinlee11/status/1599599120188026880">wrote</a>.
“The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood said it happened to her, too. “Join the club. I did a signing to which Nobody came, except a guy who wanted to buy some Scotch tape and thought I was the help,” she <a href="https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood/status/1599812088024924162">tweeted</a> in reply. 
Even Stephen King said he had a lackluster showing early in his career. “At my first SALEM&#8217;S LOT signing, I had one customer,” King <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1599875398191714304">wrote</a>. “A fat kid who said, ‘Hey bud, do you know where there&#8217;s some Nazi books?’”
After Banning’s tweet went viral, her book shot up to the number one best-seller on Amazon in the Arthurian Fantasy category, and she shared that all her signed copies <a href="https://twitter.com/chelseabwrites/status/1599830268394643456">sold out</a>.

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Ohio parents are suing their local <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school</a> board over a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> policy that allows students to use the bathroom and locker room that correspond with their gender identity.
A group of Muslim and Christian parents in Bethel, Ohio, filed a civil lawsuit in federal court on November 22 against Bethel Local School District&#8217;s school board, seeking to halt the district&#8217;s new bathroom policy.
The parents say the policy violates their parental rights and Constitutional religious rights, as well as Title IX and Ohio state law.
The <a href="https://aflegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Complaint-Bethel-Filed-Copy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> claims that children of the plaintiffs &#8220;hold their urine and avoid using the restroom at school if at all possible&#8221; due to the policy. If the children do use the restroom, it causes them &#8220;anxiety and emotional distress,&#8221; and they fear they will be exposed to the opposite sex, the suit says. One of the children, a ninth grade girl, takes a friend with her to make sure no boy &#8220;violates her modesty.&#8221;
The Bethel school district sits just north of Dayton and <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&amp;ID2=3904861&amp;DistrictID=3904861&amp;details=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serves</a> nearly 1,600 K-12 students.
The bathroom policy &#8220;blindsided&#8221; parents after it was implemented secretly, violating Ohio&#8217;s Open Meetings Act, the parents claim.
A district faculty member proposed the new bathroom policy at a school board meeting in September of last year, and the change was adopted in January with no public discussion, according to the lawsuit.
&#8220;The Board’s actions keep the community in the dark regarding its new rules and policies for intimate facilities by refusing to answer basic questions parents need to know to make decisions about their child’s education,&#8221; reads the lawsuit. &#8220;The parental right to direct the education, safety, and upbringing of their children is the oldest fundamental right recognized by the Supreme Court. And the Board’s actions deny these parents the same.&#8221;
Previously, transgender students could use a private single-stall bathroom, but the faculty member who proposed the new policy argued it was unfair to make a transgender student do this simply &#8220;because they were born a man,&#8221; according to the complaint.
Two Muslim parents even donated out of their own pocket to build a sex-neutral restroom next to the main bathrooms at one school, the lawsuit says, and the district built the bathroom, but introduced the transgender policy anyway.
The school board <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/muslim-christian-parents-sue-ohio-school-board-transgender-bathroom-locker-room-policies.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> it had &#8220;no choice,&#8221; saying the change was necessary to comply with Title IX since &#8220;the federal government was threatening school funding, and potential litigation was imminent.&#8221; The lawsuit calls that claim &#8220;incorrect&#8221; because Title IX&#8217;s language and regulations &#8220;expressly provide for Bethel’s historic practice of separating intimate facilities based on biological sex.&#8221;
The parents also complained that students as young as fifth grade are required to do assignments that promote LGBTQ views, including reading a story about &#8220;a queen who wanted to be a king and her noble struggle to be accepted as a boy.&#8221; Students are also asked to complete surveys about their attitudes on sexual and transgender issues without parental notice, the parents said.
America First Legal (AFL), the conservative legal group representing the parents, emphasized that it will continue to fight for parents&#8217; right to protect their children&#8217;s personal privacy.
&#8220;School districts across the country — the leadership of which have been captured by woke ideologues and weak-spined bureaucrats — are actively destroying fundamental rights,&#8221; AFL Vice President Gene Hamilton <a href="https://aflegal.org/afl-sues-bethel-school-board-in-ohio-for-forcing-children-to-share-bathrooms-and-locker-rooms-with-members-of-the-opposite-sex-and-for-violating-parents-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
&#8220;Generations of Americans have grown up in environments that have unquestionably respected students’ personal privacy in intimate spaces, separated by biological sex,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Yet here we are as a society in the year 2022 subjecting students across this country to the kinds of anti-science, social experiments that would have once been unfathomable and absurd a decade ago.&#8221;

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Republican Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has won Ohio&#8217;s Senate election over Democratic opponent Tim Ryan, DecisionDeskHQ <a href="https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1590193475550842880">projects</a>.
Decision Desk made the projection at 11:03 p.m. EST.
&#8220;We won, and we won big, ladies and gentlemen,&#8221; Vance said during his victory speech, noting that Ryan had called him to concede the election.
&#8220;We have a very simple j0b to do. It&#8217;s go to work every single day and fight for the people of Ohio,&#8221; Vance said to chants of &#8220;JD! JD!&#8221; from the crowd.
On the famous Mamaw, the woman who raised him and featured prominently in his bestselling book &#8220;Hillbilly Elegy,&#8221; Vance said, &#8220;We joked that if we could wheel her up today she would drop probably about five F-bombs on national TV, but she was a proud product of working people. She believed in the American dream. She believed in the prowess of this country &#8230; I will never forget the woman who raised me, I will never forget where I came from, and I will never forget the great people of Ohio.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been given an opportunity to do something, and that&#8217;s to govern, and to govern to make the lives of the people of Ohio better. That&#8217;s exactly what I aim to do, and because of you, I get a chance to do it,&#8221; he added.
Polls leading up to the election showed Vance with a razor-thin edge over Ryan. Vance pulled ahead of his opponent after the candidates faced each other in a pair of debates last month.
The senator-elect will succeed retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who announced last year that he would not seek a third term.
Vance, a venture capitalist who first became known through his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” <a href="https://jdvance.com/">ran</a> on a platform of being an outsider who “knows what it’s like to live in a left-behind community” and will fight for normal Americans.
Vance, who was endorsed by former President Trump in April, ran on a conservative platform that included reining in spending to slow inflation, ending abortion, gaining energy independence, restoring manufacturing jobs in Ohio, finishing the southern border wall, breaking up big tech companies, combating the opioid epidemic, and ensuring election integrity.
Ryan, who represents the Buckeye State&#8217;s 13th Congressional District, has served in the House of Representatives since 2003. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019 before dropping out of the race to run for re-election to Congress.
Ryan ran for Senate as a moderate Democrat, at times attempting to distance himself from Democratic Party brass like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden, whose job approval numbers have been in the basement recently.
His platform included codifying the abortion laws laid out in Roe v. Wade, expanding capital access for minority-owned businesses, investing in Ohio’s infrastructure, expanding Medicare, strengthening border security, and passing the Equality Act, which would change the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The election was one of the most closely watched Senate races this election cycle along with Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.
The winners of these races will decide the balance of power in the upper chamber. Democrats and Republicans currently hold 50 seats each, but Democrats currently control the majority due to the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Vance and Ryan sparred over a number of hot-button issues during the campaign, including racism, the economy, and election integrity.
During their last debate, Ryan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/10/us/ohio-senate-debate-ryan-vance">attempted</a> to paint Vance as part of a fringe element, saying he is “running around with the election deniers, the extremists.”
Vance responded that Ryan is focused on the wrong concerns.
“I find it interesting how preoccupied you are with this at a time when people can’t afford groceries,” Vance said.
The candidates appeared together again at a Fox News town hall just a week before Election Day, where they took questions from the audience and emphasized their top issues.
Vance said that he believes big technology companies “in bed with the communist Chinese” pose the greatest threat to American democracy. He also said the opioid crisis and the border crisis could both be stopped by finishing the border wall and classifying drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
Ryan meanwhile made a play for the moderate vote, acknowledging that &#8220;crime is an issue&#8221; and saying he supports a middle class tax cut. However, on the economy, he <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/vance-and-ryan-fight-for-ohio-moderates-at-fox-news-town-hall-235637723.html">admitted</a> that the renewable energy items in the Inflation Reduction Act, which Ryan supported, will probably not immediately help Americans struggling with gas prices.

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VANDALIA, OHIO &#8211; Former President Donald <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/my-dinner-with-trump">Trump</a> said Monday that he will make a &#8220;big announcement&#8221; next week, fueling speculation that he is planning a 2024 presidential run.
Trump teased the announcement at an Ohio rally where he joined forces with Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance in a final push for Vance&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-election">campaign</a>.
&#8220;I am going to be making a big announcement on Tuesday, November 15, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida,&#8221; Trump said towards the end of his remarks at Dayton International Airport.
&#8220;We want nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow,&#8221; he added, referring to Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections. Democrats’ control of both the House and Senate hangs in the balance.
Reports <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3723387-talk-of-early-trump-2024-announcement-heats-up-with-monday-bid-a-possibility/">circulated</a> earlier Monday that Trump was mulling announcing a 2024 run at Monday’s rally, although unnamed sources said the decision was not final. Trump currently leads potential rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, including his closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Trump beats DeSantis 49% to 25% in a hypothetical primary matchup, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/politics/trump-approval-polling-2024.html">according</a> to a July poll.
Trump teased a 2024 announcement over the weekend as well, telling a Miami crowd on Sunday night, “I will probably have to do it again, but stay tuned.”
&#8220;Hold On I&#8217;m Coming&#8221; played as Trump left the stage after his remarks.
At Monday&#8217;s rally, Trump called on Ohio voters to vote for Vance, whom he endorsed back in April during the primary. Since then, he has appeared with Vance at <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/17/trump-rally-vance-ohio-midterms-00057341">several</a> campaign rallies.
&#8220;If you want to stop the destruction of our country and save the American dream then you must vote Republican in a giant red wave that we&#8217;ve been hearing about,&#8221; Trump said.
Vance, a venture capitalist who first became known through his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” is <a href="https://jdvance.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running</a> on a platform of being a “conservative outsider” who “knows what it’s like to live in a left-behind community” and will fight for average Americans.
“When we get to Washington, D.C., Republicans, we need to govern like we won the majority the American people gave us, not like a bunch of cowards,” Vance told the crowd.
“No more RINOs [Republicans In Name Only], no more people who compromise and lose our country in the process,” Vance said. 
“Let’s make this country great again!” he said.
Vance leads his Democratic opponent, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, by 8 points as of Tuesday, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/oh/ohio_senate_vance_vs_ryan-7624.html">according</a> to the Real Clear Politics average of polls. He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-d-vance-takes-lead-in-ohio-senate-race-after-debates-poll">took</a> the lead over Ryan after facing him in a pair of debates in October.
In their first debate, Ryan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/10/us/ohio-senate-debate-ryan-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted</a> to paint Vance as part of a fringe element, saying he is “running around with the election deniers, the extremists.”
Vance responded that Ryan was focused on the wrong concerns.
“I find it interesting how preoccupied you are with this at a time when people can’t afford groceries,” Vance said from the debate stage.
Monday&#8217;s rally was held at the Wright Bros. Aero Inc., a fixed base operator at the airport. Trump held campaign rallies there <a href="https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/donald-trump-speaks-thousands-dayton-airport/xBSx5qSOTLcTv2LODKlZ0H/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in both 2016</a> and <a href="https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/crowd-starts-to-arrive-for-trump-visit-to-dayton/56BAPP3GWFBNZB3WR7MOQ4QVYE/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>. Rallygoers began arriving as early as 10 am, even though Vance and Trump were not scheduled to speak until after 6 pm. The crowd remained enthusiastic for several hours, even as the sun set and temperatures dropped into the 40s.
Several other speakers delivered remarks, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. Mike Carey (R-OH), Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), and Ohio GOP congressional candidates J.R. Majewski and Max Miller.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R), who is also endorsed by Trump, was also in attendance.
The vibe was upbeat as candidates wound down their campaigns by calling on rallygoers to vote and encourage their friends to do the same.
The Ohio Senate election is one of several closely watched Senate races this election cycle, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) backed another Democratic candidate on Tuesday, telling a journalist in Ohio that she would not vote for GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance.
Cheney shared the comment during a conversation with journalist Judy Woodruff in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday.
“I would not vote for J.D. Vance,” Cheney <a href="https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/politics/2022/11/01/liz-cheney-spurns-j-d-vance-backs-tim-ryan-in-ohio-race-for-senate/69610822007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
When asked if she would vote for Ryan if she was a resident in Ohio, she responded, &#8220;I would.&#8221;
Vance and Ryan are competing to become the state&#8217;s next senator following Republican Sen. Rob Portman&#8217;s decision not to seek re-election.
Cheney&#8217;s remarks come after she has expressed support for a growing list of Democratic candidates in the final days ahead of the midterm election. The GOP congresswoman previously expressed her public endorsement of Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in her re-election campaign against a Republican opponent.
“I’m proud to endorse Elissa Slotkin. Serving together on the Armed Services Committee, I have come to know Elissa as a good and honorable public servant who works hard for the people she represents, wants what’s best for the country, and is in this for the right reasons,” Cheney <a href="https://elissaforcongress.com/press-release-cheney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement released by Slotkin&#8217;s campaign website.
“While Elissa and I have our policy disagreements, at a time when our nation is facing threats at home and abroad, we need serious, responsible, substantive members like Elissa in Congress. I encourage all voters in the 7th district – Republicans, Democrats, and Independents – to support her in this election,&#8221; she added.
Cheney&#8217;s political action group, The Great Task, also recently announced that it is spending $500,000 on airtime to urge Arizona voters to oppose GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem.
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_17754662-F7A6-3F7F-2303-1F0450A70AFB@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">“You have a candidate for governor, Kari Lake, you have a candidate for secretary of state, Mark Finchem, both of whom have said that they will only honor the results of an election if they agree with it,” Cheney <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/liz-cheney-pac-arizona-ad-lake-finchem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> in the ad. “And if you care about the survival of our republic, we cannot give people power who will not honor elections.&#8221;
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_17754662-F7A6-3F7F-2303-1F0450A70AFB@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Lake has previously responded to Cheney&#8217;s vow to campaign against her, calling it a gift.
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_17754662-F7A6-3F7F-2303-1F0450A70AFB@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">“That might be the biggest, best gift I’ve ever received,” Lake said during an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biggest-best-gift-ive-ever-received-kari-lake-reacts-to-liz-cheneys-vow-to-campaign-against-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo in September. “I mean, the people of Wyoming can’t stand her, I’m pretty much sure that the people of Arizona don’t like Liz Cheney.&#8221;
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_17754662-F7A6-3F7F-2303-1F0450A70AFB@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Cheney announced her plans to campaign against members of her own party in September during a Texas Tribune interview.
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_17754662-F7A6-3F7F-2303-1F0450A70AFB@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Kari Lake is not elected.”
<p data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_17754662-F7A6-3F7F-2303-1F0450A70AFB@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">When asked if that included campaigning for Democrats, the congresswoman replied, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Liz_Cheney</a>: “I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Kari Lake is not elected.”
Does that include campaigning for Democrats?
“Yes.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TribFest22?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TribFest22</a> <a href="https://t.co/nWkdWVcWC6">pic.twitter.com/nWkdWVcWC6</a>
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Cheney lost her own state&#8217;s primary in August to Republican Harriet Hageman. The congresswoman had been censured by the Wyoming Republican Party and had fallen out of favor with the state&#8217;s conservatives after voting to impeach Trump after January 6, 2021, and joining the House committee to investigate the events of the Capitol riot.

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Liz Cheney Backs Another Democrat, Says She ‘Would Not Vote’ For Ohio’s J.D. Vance Over Tim Ryan

J.D. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vance</a> has taken the lead over his Democratic opponent in Ohio&#8217;s Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">race</a> since debating him earlier this month, according to the latest polling.
The Republican political outsider faced Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) in a pair of debates held on October 10 and 17, and since then Vance&#8217;s poll numbers have seen a bump.
Vance is up by 4.1% over Ryan in a Cygnal <a href="https://www.cygn.al/cygnal-momentum-tracking-poll-ohio-statewide-10-19-22/">poll</a>, beyond the poll&#8217;s 2.58% margin of error. The poll was conducted from October 14-18 and surveyed nearly 1,500 likely voters in Ohio.
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Ryan still leads by about 8% among Independents, but his popularity among those voters is not enough to put him in the lead.
Notably, Vance leads by a huge margin among Ohio voters who have an unfavorable view of President Joe Biden, 72% to 19%.
Biden has struggled to keep his favorability and job approval numbers above water in recent weeks. Nearly 53% of people have an unfavorable view of the president, compared to as low as 38% when he was elected, <a href="https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2021/02/03074817/2101110_crosstabs_POLITICO_RVs_v1.pdf">according</a> to some polls. His job approval numbers are even worse, with about 54% of people saying they disapprove of the job Biden is doing, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html">according</a> to Real Clear Politics.
Other polls had shown Vance beating Ryan but only within the margin of error, essentially putting the candidates in a dead heat.
According to the Real Clear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/oh/ohio_senate_vance_vs_ryan-7624.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">average</a> of polls, Vance now leads Ryan by 2.5 percentage points.
One earlier poll in September had <a href="https://www.nbc4i.com/news/your-local-election-hq/one-candidate-now-leads-ohios-u-s-senate-race-latest-poll-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shown</a> Ryan with a statistical lead, but the most recent polls either show Vance leading or the candidates tied.
Vance, a venture capitalist who first became known through his 2016 memoir &#8220;Hillbilly Elegy,&#8221; is <a href="https://jdvance.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running</a> on a platform of being a &#8220;conservative outsider&#8221; who &#8220;knows what it’s like to live in a left-behind community&#8221; and will fight for normal Americans.
On Monday in their last debate before the election, both Vance and Ryan went on the attack, sparring over racism and immigration, among other topics.
Ryan <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/10/18/jd-vance-tim-ryan-ohio-senate-debate-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> Vance of &#8220;peddling&#8221; an anti-immigration conspiracy theory called &#8220;white replacement theory.&#8221; Vance accused Ryan of &#8220;slander&#8221; and called him &#8220;disgusting&#8221; for those accusations.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s exactly what happens when the media and people like Tim Ryan accuse me of engaging in great replacement theory,” Vance said from the debate stage.
&#8220;What happens is my own children — my biracial children — get attacked by scumbags online and in person, because you are so desperate for political power that you’ll accuse me, the father of three beautiful biracial babies, of engaging in racism. We are sick of it,&#8221; said Vance, whose wife is Indian American.
Vance also defended his stance on immigration control.
&#8220;You can believe in the border without being a racist,&#8221; he said.
In their earlier debate, Ryan <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/10/us/ohio-senate-debate-ryan-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempted</a> to paint Vance as part of a fringe element, saying he is &#8220;running around with the election deniers, the extremists.&#8221;
Vance responded that Ryan is focused on the wrong concerns.
“I find it interesting how preoccupied you are with this at a time when people can’t afford groceries,” Vance said.
The Ohio Senate election is one of several closely watched Senate races this election cycle, including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.

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