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26+ min ago (961+ words) ["Here are the selections for the Wooster Daily Record All-Area Volleyball team for the 2025 season: More: Top 25 Ohio high school girls basketball players ahead of the 2025-26 season ...","See what volleyball players made the Wooster Daily Record All-Area team this fall."]...

30+ min ago (1007+ words) More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the "biggest waves of censorship" on its platforms in years. Repro Uncensored, an NGO tracking digital censorship against movements focused on gender, health and justice, said that it had tracked 210 incidents of account removals and severe restrictions affecting these groups this year, compared with 81 last year. Meta denied an escalating trend of censorship. "Every organisation and individual on our platforms is subject to the same set of rules, and any claims of enforcement based on group affiliation or advocacy are baseless," it said in a statement, adding that its policies on…...

38+ min ago (917+ words) For decades, biologists have suspected a fundamental bargain in nature: energy spent making offspring is energy not spent maintaining the body." A sweeping new analysis led by the University of Otago puts fresh, cross-species numbers behind that idea." Drawing on records from zoos and aquariums worldwide, the team reports that blocking reproduction is linked to longer life in both males and females across 117 mammal species, with gains typically in the 1020% range." The research also teases apart why the longevity boost arises, and why the reasons differ by sex. Because many animals under human care receive veterinary oversight and live in relatively protected conditions, their life histories form a powerful dataset for questions that are nearly impossible to test at scale in the wild." Here, researchers combined two lines of evidence: survival data for living mammals that had undergone contraception or…...

58+ min ago (425+ words) Drive aims to raise awareness, challenge stigma and strengthen the services victims and survivors rely on The BMA warmly welcomes the first Domestic Abuse Awareness Day. Domestic abuse is a profound public health issue, affecting individuals, families and communities across the UK. As doctors, we witness the lasting physical and psychological harm it causes " and we must also recognise that members of the medical profession are not immune." Doctors, too, can experience abuse, often in silence and under immense professional pressure and they deserve the same protection, support and understanding as any other survivor." This national day is an important step in raising awareness, challenging stigma, and strengthening the services that victims and survivors rely on. The BMA remains committed to working with partners across health and social care to ensure that everyone affected by domestic abuse " including those within…...

1+ hour ago (983+ words) CNA Staff, Dec 11, 2025 / 09:30 am When Virginia father Tom Vander Woude's 19-year-old son, a boy with Down syndrome, fell into a toxic sewage tank, Tom jumped into the tank with him, pushing him to the surface even as the toxic fumes filled his own lungs. The father of seven, whose sainthood cause is now under investigation, will be posthumously awarded this year's Walk for Life "Saint Gianna Molla Award for Pro-Life Heroism" on Jan. 24, 2026 at the West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco." "When we heard Tom's story years ago, we were touched by the love of a father for his child," Dolores Meehan, co-chair of the West Coast Walk for Life, told CNA. "The fact that his son has Down syndrome made it all the more important to share his story of love and sacrifice and joy." Unborn children…...

1+ hour, 8+ min ago (660+ words) On Tuesday, December 9, the City Council of Sudan, Texas (pop. 958) became the 88th city in the nation, and the 71st city in the State of Texas, to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance. The "Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, declaring Sudan a Sanctuary City for the Unborn" passed in a unanimous 5-0 vote. [] The post This Texas Town is the 88th City Nationwide to Ban Abortions appeared first on LifeNews.com. On Tuesday, December 9, the City Council of Sudan, Texas (pop. 958) became the 88th city in the nation, and the 71st city in the State of Texas, to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance. The "Ordinance Outlawing Abortion, declaring Sudan a Sanctuary City for the Unborn" passed in a unanimous 5-0 vote. The City of Sudan, located between the cities of Muleshoe (pop. 5,158) and Amherst (pop. 671), is the second city in Lamb County to consider…...

1+ hour, 21+ min ago (721+ words) E-mail rules my life. Nine different accounts. Work. Departments. Personal. I check them all, all day, every day. Somewhere in that blizzard of messages sits one lonely account that I reserve for the unhinged corner of the world: the abortion lobby and its favorite high priestess, Jessica Valenti. That is the inbox I open only when I have the stomach for madness. Today I clicked. I should not have. Sitting at the top was Jessica's newsletter,Abortion Every Day, wrapped in a subject line that felt like a dare: "A 2025 Gift Guide " For Abortion Rights." A gift guide. For abortion. I had to see how low the bar could drop. It did not disappoint. First up in this carnival of cruelty is a cheap button, slapped together in all caps: "ABORTION IS NORMAL." That is supposed to pass for wit....

1+ hour, 28+ min ago (1171+ words) BATTLE CREEK " It was a big season on the court for the area high school volleyball teams. Some district titles, league and conference success by the area teams. And there were plenty of standout individual performances behind those accomplishments deserving of postseason honors. MORE: 2025 Battle Creek Enquirer All-City Volleyball Team Meet the Battle Creek Enquirer 2025 All-Area Volleyball Team below. The squad is made up of non-city teams, selected based on nominations from area coaches and the Enquirer sports staff: A returning starter as a senior setter, Aleah Brackett is a returning member of the Enquirer all-area team. Brackett was named all-league and was voted MVP of the Big Eight. Leading her team to a conference and district title, Brackett had 315 assists and 382 digs at setter. Needing her as an outside hitter as well, she had a team-high 671 kills and 71 blocks…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (190+ words) The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a multimillion-dollar business that promotes an extreme version of free birth, meaning women giving birth without medical assistance. The Guardian can now reveal that the organisation has been linked to dozens of cases of maternal harm and baby deaths around the world. After a year-long investigation, Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne explain why some women they interviewed found FBS's views so appealing, and why medical professionals say their claims about birth are dangerousThe Birth Keepers: I choose this " episode one Continue reading... The Birth Keepers: how the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world " video The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a multimillion-dollar business that promotes an extreme version of free birth, meaning women giving birth without medical assistance. The Guardian can now reveal that the organisation has been linked…...

1+ hour, 30+ min ago (215+ words) HanWay Films has come aboard Nigerian-born writer-director Olive Nwosu's debut feature "Lady," which was recently unveiled as among the world premieres in Sundance 2026. Starring Jessica Gabriel's Ujah, Amanda Oruh, Tinuade Jemiseye, Bucci Franklin and Seun Kuti, the film charts one young woman's quest for sisterhood and freedom set in the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos. It's set to play in the World Cinema Competition category at Utah. HanWay will represent worldwide sales. Nwosu is an alumna of the Sundance Lab. To research the film, she spent time with Nigerian sex workers, with the film also featuring a standout soundtrack of contemporary African jazz and dance music and cast with local talent. Executive producers are Ama Ampadu for the BFI; David Kimbangi, Max Park, Ben Coren for Film4; Kieran Hannigan for Screen Scotland; Adrienne Becker, Brent Zachery, Abigail E. Disney for Level Forward;…...