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West Virginia
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 30 stories to West Virginia since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from West Virginia.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In West Virginia
10 storiesProPublica reporters open private schools in two of three states, one for $45 and a flag in Arkansas, where an official suggests tapping taxpayer money.
West Virginia can't oversee microschools
Scouting America cuts jamboree spaces for gay youth, girls and scouts of color after Hegseth threatens its century-old Pentagon partnership.
Compliance memo only surfaced through lawsuit
West Virginia Del. Elliott Pritt submits a one-sentence resignation after federal charges he sexually abused a student he met teaching public school.
Governor was readying expulsion session
Ohio grand jury indicts 8 men on terrorism and murder conspiracy charges in a foiled drone and sniper attack targeting Trump's June White House UFC event.
Trump, Vance, Netanyahu among planned targets
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
27 states already restrict
The Trump administration cancels 53 of 67 federal teen pregnancy prevention grants worth $68 million, calling the evidence-based programs misaligned with its priorities.
Trump's Justice Department killed a criminal pollution investigation into the coal empire of Republican Senator Jim Justice, a close Trump ally.
Career prosecutors believed the case was strong
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk's X.
Settlements include DEI in protected criteria
Federal Judicial Center removes 90-page climate science chapter from official reference manual for U.S. judges after Republican attorneys general call it biased.
2 climate cases on Supreme Court docket
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesCNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Stars and Stripes' editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Fired after USS Lincoln morale story
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