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- Olympics bids: What a ‘below-the-radar’ IOC team… Snow on the K10/20 ski jump melts revealing the grass underneath at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City on Monday, April 25, 2022.Mengshin Lin, Deseret News After three days of touring proposed 2030 or 2034 Winter Games venues along the Wasatch Front with an International Olympic Committee team of technical experts, Fraser Bullock sounded more sure than ever that the Olympics are coming back to Utah. “This is exactly what we hoped to receive from the IOC: a partnership (and) great input ... that’s what we’ve felt the last few days,” Bullock, president and CEO of the Salt Lake…
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- Justice Dept files a challenge to Alabama transgender law By KIM CHANDLER MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday challenged an Alabama law making it a felony for doctors to treat transgender people under age 19 with puberty-blockers and hormones to help affirm their new gender identity. The Justice Department filed a motion seeking to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit challenging the law as unconstitutional and seeking to block it from taking effect on May 8. The action comes after the department sent a letter to all 50 state attorneys general warning that blocking transgender and nonbinary youth from receiving gender-affirming care could be an…