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Biden administration exempts religious schools from LGBTQ mandate on lunch funding

In this file photo, a cafeteria worker packages hot lunches at an elementary school in Calhoun, Georgia, on Thursday, March 19, 2020. Private religious schools won't be required to comply with the Biden administration's gender mandate to qualify for student-lunch funding under a newly released exemption. (AP Photo/Angie Wang) **FILE**

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Private religious schools won’t be required to comply with the Biden administration’s gender mandate to qualify for student-lunch funding under a newly released exemption.

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the state's U.S. Senate seat, speaks after being introduced by his wife Gisele Barreto Fetterman, right, during a rally in Erie, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden exit Marine One at Charleston Executive Airport, S.C., Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. The Biden's arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family outside of Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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FILE - Salman Rushdie attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on Nov. 15, 2017, in New York. Rushdie was attacked while giving a lecture in western New York. An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage Friday at the Chautauqua Institution as Rushdie was being introduced. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., addresses attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla., in this file photo. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

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FILE - Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician, who has been fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, gives an interview to The Associated Press, at her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 6, 2021. A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Hadi Matar, 24, center, listens to his public defense attorney Nathaniel Barone, left, addresses the judge while being arraigned in the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, NY., Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Matar, accused of carrying out a stabbing attack against “Satanic Verses” author Salman Rushdie, has entered a not-guilty plea on charges of attempted murder and assault. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Actor Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 21, 2015. Baldwin said in an ABC interview that he didn't pull the trigger while on a New Mexico film set when the gun went off, killing a cinematographer in October 2021. He says he partially pulled back the hammer of the revolver, and it fired when he let go. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

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Cassandra Hunt of Lakewood, Colo., watches James Zillian of Falls Church, Va., sample a beer from the Ft. Collins, Colo., Odell Brewing Company, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004 at the 23rd annual Great American Beer Festival in Denver. Zillian, a self-proclaimed beer historian and collector of beer related advertising, claims to have notes on over 3,000 beers he has sampled. The brewing festival and competition is sponsored by the Association of Brewers and runs through Saturday. (AP Photo/Rob Stuehrk) **FILE**

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Chicago Cubs right fielder Seiya Suzuki plays against the Cincinnati Reds in the second inning during a baseball game at the Field of Dreams movie site, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in Dyersville, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Climate activists are clamoring for President Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency, calls the White House has so far not headed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden exit Marine One at Charleston Executive Airport, S.C., Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. The Biden's arrived in South Carolina on Wednesday to begin what is expected to be at least a seven-day vacation with members of his family outside of Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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China's President Xi Jinping delivers a speech after arriving for the upcoming handover anniversary by train in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Xi has arrived in Hong Kong ahead of the 25th anniversary of the British handover and after a two-year transformation bringing the city more tightly under Communist Party control. (Selim Chtayti/Pool Photo via AP)

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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the state's U.S. Senate seat, speaks after being introduced by his wife Gisele Barreto Fetterman, right, during a rally in Erie, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Traffic flows past workers in a construction zone along Interstate 55 in St. Louis, June 9, 2022. United States transportation officials announced $2.2 billion for local infrastructure projects on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, paving the way for new bicycle lanes, bridges, roads, railways and ports in scores of communities across the country. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

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Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., addresses attendees during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, July 23, 2022, in Tampa, Fla., in this file photo. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

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Bremerton High assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, front, walks off the field with his lawyer, right, Oct. 16, 2015, after praying at the 50-yard line following a football game in Bremerton, Wash. After losing his coaching job for refusing to stop kneeling in prayer with players and spectators on the field immediately after football games, Kennedy will take his arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, April 25, 2022, saying the Bremerton School District violated his First Amendment rights by refusing to let him continue praying at midfield after games. (Lindsey Wasson/The Seattle Times via AP) **FILE**

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The front pages of the Aug. 13 edition of the Iranian newspapers, Vatan-e Emrooz, front, with title reading in Farsi: &quot;Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie,&quot; and Hamshahri, rear, with title: &quot;Attack on writer of Satanic Verses,&quot; are pictured in Tehran Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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In this photo provided by Dakota Snider, a thunderstorm is seen from Highway 159 over Las Vegas on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. A summer monsoon thunderstorm season unseen in Las Vegas in the last 10 years brought lightning and heavy rain to some areas late Thursday, and ceiling leaks that soaked playing cards and gambling at some Strip casinos. No injuries were reported, and damage estimates were not immediately provided as Friday dawned sunny and clear. (Dakota Snider via AP)

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