National Priorities

  

'US national park service to receive $100 million largest grant in its history

Donation from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment will be used across country’s more than 400 national park sites"  

" CeeDee Lamb ends Cowboys holdout, signs new $136 million contract 

Lamb and the Cowboys agreed Monday on a $136m, four-year contract with $100m guaranteed" 

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400 National Parks 

4 years football. One player.

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"Alabama high school football player dies after suffering brain injury during game 

16-year-old ruptured blood vessel while being tackled" 

"Death of Caden Tellier, 16, follows at least three other recent high school football fatalities related to  

extreme heat"

 All stories, The Guardian, 8-27-24   

"It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that Caden Tellier has gone to be with his Lord and Savior.  

Caden loved the Lord with all his heart and was a shining light every day he graced the halls of Morgan Academy. 

 He was a student, a friend, an athlete and  

most important a Christ follower" 

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"The jersey  

that the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth wore when he “called the shot” – and batted a home run – during game 3 of the 1932 World Series has sold for a record-setting  

$24.1m (£18.1m) with Heritage Auctions.

The sale makes the jersey the most expensive sports collectible to ever be sold at auction" 

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"Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions. .

Women must also not be heard singing or reading aloud, even from inside their houses. 

From now on, Afghan women are also not allowed to look directly at men they are not related to by blood or marriage" 

"women and girls were already blocked from attending secondary school; banned from almost every form of paid employment; prevented from walking in public parks, attending gyms or beauty salons; and told to comply with a strict dress code.

Earlier this year, the Taliban also announced the reintroduction of the public flogging and stoning of women for adultery."