Conservative Gettysburg College Posters Torn By Leftist Student

There is a video circulating online by a member of a conservative campus group at a private Pennsylvania college that clearly captured a student tearing down its promotional flyers.

The Young America's Foundation (YAF) chapter at Gettysburg College hosted conservative author and speaker Vince Ellison on 20 November. Days before the event, the group posted advertisements for the event around campus.

However, according to Gettysburg College YAF Chairman Tyler Seeman, students who oppose right-leaning ideals tore down the chapter's flyers — something Seeman says happens every semester when the campus group hosts an event — and one of them was caught on camera.

"Every semester, Gettysburg YAF has a campus lecture. So, we invite one of the speakers from YAF's speaker list to come to campus and discuss whatever their specialty is," Seeman told Fox News Digital.

In the video, a YAF member climbs a flight of stairs after seeing a student pulling the group's flyers off the wall, and races to confront the alleged perpetrator.

"You having fun?" the YAF member asks.

"Yeah," the student quickly replies.

"You know that's against college policy, right?" the YAF member asks.

"OK," the student says, before falling silent.

The YAF member then chastised the student for not making it out of the building before being caught red-handed.

"We've got more of those [flyers] in the stairwell, you wanna go get those too?" the YAF member asks.

"I don't know," the student replies.

The YAF member then escorts the alleged perpetrator out of the building.

"Every semester, students on campus tear our flyers down because we're the only conservative 501(c)(3) on campus that actually hosts campus lectures," Seeman said. "So, some students feel, I would presume, that our views and our speakers' statements are contrary or dangerous to their own perspectives and their own worldview."

Seeman characterized the school as "apathetic" toward the chapter's plight. He said that on one occasion, the school sent out an email to some students condemning the behavior of YAF's opponents, but on another occasion, school administrators declined a request to admonish bad actors.

Seeman shared a message to those on campus who oppose YAF's views.

"Instead of tearing down flyers, show up to our events and ask questions, because we want to have that dialogue," he said.

"At the end of the day, that's just going to get everyone in the room thinking about these issues, and we'd rather have as many people thinking about these issues and talking about these issues as possible, rather than just tearing down flyers and trying to silence other people's speech, because that's not constructive."

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Chicago Public Schools Continue To Promote "Woke" Materials

A top parents’ rights advocacy group is sounding the alarm on "woke" LGBT literature being implemented into the curriculum at Chicago Public Schools, one of the largest public school systems in the United States.

The report from Defending Education, released recently, alleges that Chicago Public Schools has been issuing "Pride guidances" to teachers that encourages them to host a "Pride Week," display "Pride flags," and distribute other materials supportive of LGBT agendas in schools.

Additionally, the group says that the guidance includes a goal of every district implementing a "Gender and Sexuality Alliance" club which they have already made significant progress on over the past couple of years.

Defending Education exclusively spoke to Fox News Digital about its concerns over the materials being disseminated to children.

"Chicago Public Schools’ ongoing obsession with wasting classroom time — and district resources — on everything except educating students on core subjects is absolutely appalling," Nicole Neily, founder and president of Defending Education, told Fox News Digital.

"Families expect that their children will learn basic skills like reading, writing, and math that will provide them a path to a better life, a social contract that CPS has clearly broken. District test scores demonstrate that Brandon Johnson and his CTU cronies are failing Chicago families."

One document obtained by Defending Education suggests that teachers are being reminded that state law prohibits them from opting out of "LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum" and stating that they are required to teach "LGBTQ+ History."

"Pride is more than just a month of celebrations and recognition of the LGBTQ+ community," one of the documents posted by Defending Education says. "It’s a protest and a fight for equality. It’s collaboration and support across other marginalized communities."

A FAQ section in one of the documents asks, "Can I put Pride flags and other LGBTQ+ affirming materials in my classroom?"

The answer from the school system reads, "Yes! We encourage you to do so!"

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Caitlyn Clark Excluded From US Women's Basketball Graphics

USA Women's Basketball is once again facing some Caitlin Clark-related criticism with it’s latest decision ahead of next month’s training camp.

As the U.S. women’s national team begins preparations for the 2028 LA Olympics, Team USA revealed the roster of ladies participating in its inaugural camp being held in Durham, NC on 12 - 14 December.

The camp will feature 18 players, headlined by 2024 Olympic gold medalists Kahleah Copper, Chelsea Gray, Brittney Griner, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young and Dearica Hamby. As well as newcomers such as: Brionna Jones, Aliyah Boston, Lauren Betts, Cameron Brink, Paige Bueckers, Veronica Burton, Sonia Citron, Caitlin Clark, Kiki Iriafen, Rickea Jackson, Angel Reese and JuJu Watkins.

However in the organization’s promotional flier, Clark’s photo was curiously missing despite being arguably the biggest star in the sport. And that led to people calling it out on social media.

Among the first to point it out was longtime sports columnist and author Christine Brennan, who wrote a book on Clark this summer titled: "On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports."

"This is so interesting," Brennan said. "If USA Basketball really wanted to go all out promoting WBB, bring new fans in and get unprecedented attention for a team that dropped in TV viewership at the Paris Olympics, they would have added the photo of one other player to this graphic. But no."

Others agreed in Team USA’s mentions.

"Wheres Caitlin on the poster?" a user asked.

"Yes, let’s not put the most famous woman’s basketball player in the world Caitlin Clark on the poster 😂😂😂😂" an Indiana Fever fan laughed. "wtf Is wrong with the decision makers 🚨"

"It never gets old that the most popular player in the league is left off posters like this… can you imagine leaving Magic or Jordan off a poster? You all need to wake up!!!" another exclaimed. "While all these players are amazing and some may be better than CC- this is marketing 101."

"Leaving the picture of the most popular female athlete on the planet sure is an interesting marketing choice. At least women’s basketball is consistent," another person commented.

It’s definitely interesting that the WNBA doesn’t look to platform its biggest draw more than it currently does. But at the same time, the league is in as good a place as it’s ever been — even if it a lot of that has to do with it’s 23-year-old All-Star guard.

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World's Strongest Woman Organizers Stripped Title From Winner After Discovering He Is A Man

Britain's Andrea Thompson was finally crowned as the World's Strongest Woman after the original winner was disqualified from the championships for lying about his sex.

Official Strongman stripped American Jammie Booker of the title, stating that Booker had violated the rules after the organization claimed she was "biologically male". Australian Allira-Joy Cowley has been promoted to second in the championships.

Organizers said Booker, from Philadelphia, violated the contest’s rules, which clearly stipulate that athletes must compete in the category that aligns with their biological sex at birth.

"It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women’s Open category," organizers said in a social media statement announcing the decision.

"Official Strongman officials were unaware of this fact ahead of the competition and we have been urgently investigating since being informed."

"Had we been aware, or had this been declared at any point before or during the competition, this athlete would not have been permitted to compete in the Woman’s Open category," they added.

The move comes after Thompson, was filmed storming off the podium as she raged about the "bulls–t" decision to award the title to Booker.

Thompson is now the winner, which many online supporters had called her all along.

Organizers said the places will now be altered accordingly in the wake of Booker's disqualification.

"We are clear — competitors can only compete in the category for the biological sex recorded at birth," organizers said.

"Official Strongman is inclusive and proud to run events which do not discriminate against athletes based on personal characteristics. Any athlete is welcome. But it is our responsibility to ensure fairness and ensure athletes are assigned to men or women’s categories based on whether they are recorded as male or female at birth."

Three-time champ Rebecca Roberts led the backlash — quickly claiming that no one was aware of Booker’s gender at birth.

"Transgender women, people born male, should not be competing in the women’s category," she said in a statement prior to Booker being stripped of the title.

"What happened this weekend wasn’t transparent. None of us knew. Not even the organizers knew. And when fairness is taken by surprise, trust in the sport begins to crack."

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PWFT Is Now Ready For The Inaugural Futsal World Cup

As the host of the first-ever FIFA Women’s Futsal World Cup, the Philippine Women’s National Futsal Team (PWFT) says it is not feeling pressure and is focused on letting performance speak for itself.

The tournament is scheduled from 21 November to 7 December 2025 at PhilSports Arena in Pasig City.

National team mainstays Jaclyn Sawicki and Katrina Guillou said competing on home soil is inspiring.

"I don't think we're going to take that pressure on with us. I think we're going to just enjoy being here in the Philippines and just enjoy the experience and really not take it for granted because it is special to be part of this for the first time ever," midfielder Sawicki said during the 2026 PUMA Philippines x Philippine Football Federation Kit Launch on 15 November.

"So to be able to do that on the world's biggest stage, and in our home country with the crowd physically present this time, is truly special," she added.

Sawicki also noted that representing the country carries significant responsibility, which she described as an honour for every player wearing the red, blue, and white.

Guillou said the team is aiming for victory in the historic event, which has been in planning since 2022.

"I think it's not just me, but I can speak for everyone here that we stay focused, expecting to win, and we're going to give our best," Guillou said.

Tickets for the tournament are available at FIFA.com and range from PhP 499 to PhP 2,999.

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IOC Moves To Ban Transgender Women In Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is closely edging closer towards implementing of a complete ban on transgender women competing in the female category in time for the Los Angeles Olympic Games.

Multiple sources expect such a ban to come into effect over the next six to 12 months with the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry, making clear she wants to drive through her campaign pledge to protect the female category.

Such a policy would also avoid potential conflict with the US president, Donald Trump, before the LA 2028 Games, after he signed an executive order to prevent transgender women from competing in female sport in February.

The IOC, however, is still facing some internal resistance to a ban on athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD), who were reported female at birth but have male chromosomes and male testosterone levels.

Such athletes, which include the London 2012 and Rio 2016 gold medallist Caster Semenya, have now been barred by World Athletics from the female category. But football’s governing body, Fifa, does allow athletes with a DSD to compete in the women’s game.

However, the majority of insiders expect that Coventry’s campaign pledge will mean any athlete who has gone through male puberty will be banned from the female category.

Speculation that the IOC would introduce a new policy as soon as January intensified recently after it was reported that its director of health, medicine and science, Dr. Jane Thornton, had given a science-based review of the evidence to its members last week, showing there were permanent physical advantages to being born male.

Thornton, a former Canadian rower, also explained how some sports bodies, such as World Athletics, were now using the SRY cheek-swab gene test to determine the biological sex of athletes in what was said by one source to be "a factual and dispassionate presentation".

The IOC, however, quickly denied any decision had been made. It is also understood that its working group on the issue is still continuing its deliberations, and the summer of 2026 is a more realistic timeframe for the new policy.

Yet while the IOC is set on bringing in a new policy, much remains unclear. Will it follow the lead of World Athletics, with its cheek‑swab test? And can it ensure that any new policy does not face a legal challenge?

A statement from the IOC read: "An update was given by the IOC’s director of health, medicine and science to the IOC members last week during the IOC commission meetings. The working group is continuing its discussions on this topic and no decisions have been taken yet. Further information will be provided in due course."

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Vaping Is An Alarming Trend For Teens

The latest data revealed that West Virginia teenagers are leading the nation — not in academics, but in vaping.

As cigarette smoking becomes more taboo, many young people have turned to e-cigarettes, unaware that they may be trading one danger for another. According to The Jackson Star & Harold, nearly 17 percent of middle schoolers and 35.7 percent of high schoolers in West Virginia vape — the highest rates in the country.

"The student doesn't know what was in the vape," said Jody Sperry, Harrison County Schools coordinator of health services. "They're kind of playing Russian roulette with their health."

And the risks aren't limited to the short term. "It hasn't been around long enough to know where we really know what those long-term effects are," explained V.J. Davis, administrator of the Preston County Health Department.

Once marketed as a "safer" alternative to cigarettes, vaping has proved to be anything but harmless. E-cigarettes can contain nicotine, heavy metals, and volatile organic compounds — a toxic mix that damages developing lungs and increases the risk of addiction in young people.

Not only that, but manufacturers pack disposable vapes with single-use plastics, toxic metals, and lithium batteries that often wind up in landfills or scattered on the ground. Those discarded devices can leach heavy metals and other chemicals into soil and water, harming wildlife and contributing to the growing global waste problem.

Public health officials across the state are calling for stronger regulations, school-based education campaigns, and limits on flavored vaping products that appeal to kids. Some schools are using air sensors to detect vaping on campus, while others are pairing education with peer-led prevention programs that address addiction early.

At home, parents and communities can help by talking openly about the risks, properly disposing of old devices at e-waste drop-offs, and supporting brands and policies that prioritize public health over profit.

Because, whether it's our lungs or our landfills, the message is the same: Both deserve a clean breath of air.

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The Common Root Cause Of Psychiatric Disorders

Researchers recently discovered that there are eight different psychiatric conditions that share a common genetic basis. There study pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes and shows how they behave during brain development.

The US team found many of these variants remain active for extended periods, potentially influencing multiple developmental stages – and offering new targets for treatments that could address several disorders at once.

"The proteins produced by these genes are also highly connected to other proteins," explained University of North Carolina geneticist Hyejung Won in January.

"Changes to these proteins in particular could ripple through the network, potentially causing widespread effects on the brain."

Back in 2019, an international team first identified 109 genes linked in different combinations with eight psychiatric disorders: autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anorexia.

This may explain why these conditions often co-occur – for example up to 70 percent of individuals diagnosed with autism or ADHD have the other too – and why they frequently cluster in families.

Each of these eight conditions also has gene differences that are unique to them individually, so Won and team compared the unique genes with those shared between the disorders.

They took almost 18,000 variations of the shared and unique genes involved and put them into the precursor cells that become our neurons to see how they could impact gene expression in these cells during human development.

This allowed the researchers to identify 683 genetic variants that impacted gene regulation and to further explore them in neurons from developing mice.

Genetic variants behind multiple seemingly unrelated traits, or in this case conditions, are called pleiotropic. The pleiotropic variants were involved in many more protein-to-protein interactions than the gene variants unique to specific psychological conditions, and they were active across more types of brain cells.

Pleiotropic variants were also involved in regulatory mechanisms that impact multiple stages of brain development. The ability of these genes to impact cascades and networks of processes, such as gene regulation, could explain why the same variants can contribute to different conditions.

"Pleiotropy was traditionally viewed as a challenge because it complicates the classification of psychiatric disorders," said Won.

"However, if we can understand the genetic basis of pleiotropy, it might allow us to develop treatments targeting these shared genetic factors, which could then help treat multiple psychiatric disorders with a common therapy."

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Music Affects Brain's Emotional Flexibility

As emotions rise and fall in everyday life, your brain keeps up, constantly adjusting. These transitions between feelings—like joy, sadness, or fear—aren’t just random reactions. They’re part of a highly organized process that helps guide behavior and decision-making, according to a new research.

Researchers from Columbia University, led by neuroscientist Matthew Sachs, recently explored this complex emotional process using music. Their work, published in the journal eNeuro, looked at how the brain switches between emotions and how past feelings shape present ones.

The findings also shows that not only does the brain actively track these changes in feelings, but it also adjusts its response depending on the emotional situation that came just before.

To study emotional transitions in the brain, Sachs and his team worked with composers to write original musical pieces. These compositions were carefully crafted to move listeners through different emotional states—such as happiness, sadness, and tension—at specific points in the music.

A group of 39 participants (20 male, 19 female) listened to the music while undergoing functional MRI (fMRI) scans. This allowed researchers to capture detailed images of brain activity in real time. As participants moved through the emotional journey of the music, the scientists tracked how the brain responded.

The songs didn’t just stir up feelings—they acted as tools for understanding how emotions work in the brain. By manipulating the emotional context of the music, the team was able to see how brain activity changed depending on what emotion had come just before.

The brain doesn’t just react to an emotion—it maps it out. Sachs and his team used both data-driven analysis, such as Hidden Markov modeling, and theory-based methods to interpret the brain scans. What they found was striking: patterns of activation along the brain’s temporal-parietal axis clearly reflected emotional transitions.

This region of the brain helps with processing sounds and interpreting social signals. When a participant’s emotional state changed in response to music, this part of the brain showed clear changes too. These neural changes weren’t random—they had both spatial and temporal signatures, meaning they could be pinpointed in both location and timing.

Even more fascinating was how timing changed depending on emotional context. When the new emotion was similar in valence—like going from happiness to calm instead of from happiness to sadness—the transition in brain activity happened earlier. That means your brain shifts more smoothly and quickly between similar emotions.

Understanding these emotional transitions isn’t just interesting—it could be life-changing for people struggling with mental health. Many people with mood disorders, such as depression, experience what scientists call emotional rigidity. They get stuck in a single emotional state, unable to shift easily.

Sachs believes this new research might lead to better treatment tools. "We know that people who suffer from mood disorders or depression often demonstrate emotional rigidity, where they basically get stuck in an emotional state," he says. "This study suggests that maybe we could take someone with depression, for instance, and use the approach we developed to identify neural markers for the emotional rigidity that keeps them in a very negative state."

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