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FBI arrests suspect connected to Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing By City News Service
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resident Donald Trump again threatened California Tuesday with possible fines and loss of federal education funds for allowing a transgender athlete from Jurupa Valley High School to compete in the CIF State Track and Field meet last week in Clovis. Trump posted Tuesday on social media that Gov. Gavin Newsom "fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed" following the California Interscholastic Federation State meet and AB Hernandez's participation in three events. Hernandez, a junior on the Jurupa Valley track and field team, won the girls triple jump and high jump and finished second in the long jump at the CIF State Championships Saturday, despite protests and calls for her to not be allowed to compete because she is transgender. Under a rule change announced last week by the CIF, the state's governing body for high school sports, Kira Gant Hatcher from Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley was allowed to stand with Hernandez at the spot for first-place finishers on the podium. Hatcher was second
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man who allegedly conspired with the Twentynine Palms resident who last month set off a car bomb that destroyed a Palm Springs fertility clinic was in federal custody Wednesday on suspicion of providing bomb-making materials to a domestic terrorist. Daniel Park, 32, of Kent, Washington, was arrested Tuesday night at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, according to U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles Bill Essayli. He was charged Wednesday with providing and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist, Essayli said. Park was arrested as he returned to the United States from Poland, from which he was deported, Essayli said. Park "left the United States to go to Europe" days after the May 17 bombing at the American Reproductive Centers clinic at 1199 N. Indian Canyon Drive. According to Essayli, Park shipped about 180 pounds of See Bombing Page 20 President Donald Trump. | Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
in the triple jump. The new rule awards biological female athletes the place on the podium they would have earned if not for the presence of transgender athletes. Saint Mary's College High School also received 10 points in the team scoring, just like Jurupa Valley High School. Hernandez was among three high jumpers to clear 5 feet, 7 inches but was declared the winner because she cleared the height on her first attempt, while Jillene Wetteland, a senior at Long Beach Poly, and
Lelani Laruelle, a junior at Monta Vista in Cupertino, both missed their first attempts, then cleared on their second. Hernandez was second in the long jump behind Long Beach Wilson senior Loren Webster. During some of Hernandez's jumps, a protester could be heard on a bullhorn from outside the Buchanan High School stadium chanting "No boys in girls' sports!" the Los Angeles Times reported. CIF officials banned See CIF Page 35
protest signs inside the facility, but outside protesters held several, including ones that read "No Child Is Born in the Wrong Body," "Trans Girls Are Boys: CIF Do Better" and "She Trains to Win. He takes the trophy?" according to The Times. Hernandez's mother, Nereyda Hernandez, praised her daughter after the events in a statement provided to The Times, saying, "As your mother, I cannot fully express how PROUD I am of you."
Fees waived for Riverside County pet adoption bonanza set for Saturday By Joe Taglieri joet@beaconmedianews.com
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ost fees to adopt dogs and cats from Riverside County animal shelters will be waived Saturday during the second annual California Adopt-a-
Pet Day. The department will not collect adoption fees, but basic licensing fees are still required, which usually range between $12 and $25 for spayed or neutered pets. Three of the county's four shelters will participate in the promotion that aims to ease the severe overcrowding — the San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus, Coachella Valley Animal Campus in Thousand Palms and Western Riverside County See Pet adoption Page 17
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