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Utah officials secretly looked into female athlete's gender
Read full article: Utah officials secretly looked into female athlete's genderA Utah high school athletics association secretly investigated a female athlete without telling her or her parents after receiving complaints from the parents of two girls she had defeated in competition questioning whether the girl was transgender.
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Memorial Day tempts Americans outdoors, raising virus fears
Read full article: Memorial Day tempts Americans outdoors, raising virus fearsMany Memorial Day commemorations have been canceled or downsized, including concerts and fireworks shows. āI know I am.āIn Virginia Beach, Virginia, the famed 40-block boardwalk and sandy shoreline reopened, but with spacing guidelines and groups limited to 10. For the hard-hit tourism and hospitality industry, there is modest hope Memorial Day will mark the start of something resembling recovery. Data and consulting firm Tourism Economics projects travelers will spend $4.2 billion on Memorial Day weekend, compared with $12.3 billion last year. Oklahoma resident Seth Rott this week boarded a plane for the first time since the pandemic to visit a friend in Washington for Memorial Day.
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Loosened restrictions, holiday weekend to test California
Read full article: Loosened restrictions, holiday weekend to test California(AP Photo/Noah Berger)SAN DIEGO George Cruz relaxed at an outdoor beach restaurant as a waitress wearing a face covering rushed by, carrying a tray with a Pina Colada in a pineapple-shaped cup. Cruz could only imagine the crowds over the holiday weekend. The coinciding factors are sure to test the nation's most populous state, which has just started seeing a decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations. California was the first in the U.S. to issue such a statewide mandate, and it was among the last to loosen restrictions. Still, the 21-year-old student wasn't sure she was ready for restaurant dining yet.