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West Virginia's and North Carolina's transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case

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FILE - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his annual State of the State address in the House Chambers at the state capitol in Charleston, W.Va., on Jan. 11, 2023.

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Aluminum company says preferred site for new smelter is a region of Kentucky hit hard by job losses

FRANKFORT, Ky. — An aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its preferred site for a new aluminum smelter that would bring about 1,000 permanent jobs to an Appalachian

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West Virginia Senate passes bill that would remove marital exemption for sexual abuse

CHARLESTON — Married people in West Virginia could be charged with certain sexual assault acts against their spouses for the first time under a controversial bill passed‘Monday by West Virginia’s

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West Virginia House OKs bill to phase out Social Security tax

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s Republican-led House of Delegates approved a bill Thursday that would cut and gradually phase out the state income tax on Social Security benefits.

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The Super Bowl is expected to smash betting records. Nearly 68M US adults plan to wager

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Nearly 68 million American adults — about 1 in 4 — plan to bet on this year’s Super Bowl, setting a record by a wide margin,

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Ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship couldn't win a Senate seat with the GOP. He's trying now as a Democrat

CHARLESTON — Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship, who lost by a wide margin when he ran for a U.S. Senate seat as a Republican in 2018, filed paperwork

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Storied US Steel to be acquired for more than $14 billion by Nippon Steel

U.S. Steel, the Pittsburgh steel producer that played a key role in the nation’s industrialization, is being acquired by Nippon Steel in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $14.1 billion.

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