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Christopher Vondracek

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Christopher Vondracek was a reporter on The Washington Times' National desk.

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Dmitri Moua, a suburban St. Paul high school junior, accused the Minnesota State High School League, the state’s official athletics governing board, of sex discrimination in a lawsuit filed last summer, saying he could not join the girl’s dance team because it did not allow for boys to compete. Another high school junior joined the lawsuit, and this month, after winning an injunction from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the MSHSL announced it would allow for any boy who wishes to compete in dance the opportunity to do so beginning in the fall of 2019. (photo courtesy of Pacific Legal Foundation)

Two Minnesota boys can join girls-only dance troupe next year

Two Minnesota boys who had been barred from dancing in their high schools' girls-only troupes will be able to join the team next year, after reaching a settlement in their sex discrimination lawsuit against the state's athletic association.

April 28, 2019
People look at damage inside the St. George's after a suicide bombing, in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in the northern Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria as worshippers were celebrating Palm Sunday, killing over 40 people and wounding scores more in assaults claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Attacks on Christians double since 2017

Violence against Christians -- like the bomb attacks that killed at least 311 people in Catholic churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday -- has been escalating steadily over the past few years, international observers say.

April 22, 2019
Ohio Rep. Derek Merrin stands while he advocates a yes vote on the Heartbeat Bill at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, April 10, 2019. The House members voted in the controversial "Heartbeat Bill" that bans abortion at the first sounds of a fetal heartbeat, which is around 6 weeks after conception. Many protestors shouted in the hallway outside of the meeting where House members decided to pass the bill. (Brooke LaValley/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Anti-abortion bills move ahead in North Carolina, Texas and Ohio

Anti-abortion bills are moving forward in state legislatures in North Carolina, Texas and Ohio, revealing more fallout from legislation passed earlier this year in New York that may have loosened abortion prohibitions in the Empire State but energized social conservatives in middle America.

April 10, 2019