内容摘要：Rescuers searched for survivors all night and into the morning, the sheriff’s office said. An emergency shelter was set up at a high school and donations of food and other necessities were arriving.

Rescuers searched for survivors all night and into the morning, the sheriff’s office said. An emergency shelter was set up at a high school and donations of food and other necessities were arriving.

Legislation that would have allowed religious exemptions to vaccination requirements, among other things, was passed by the state Senate andState schools Superintendent Michelle Blatt issued a memorandum to all 55 county superintendents May 2 recommending that students not be allowed to attend school in the 2025-26 without required immunizations. But that same day, Blatt rescinded the memo at Morrisey’s request, according to the lawsuit.

Morrisey later issued a statement saying he had no intention of rescinding the executive order. He said parents can apply for a religious exemption from vaccinations through the Bureau for Public Health.Last year, Republican then-Gov. Jim Justice vetoed apassed by the Republican-supermajority Legislature that would have exempted private school and some nontraditional public school students from vaccination requirements.

Morrisey, who served as West Virginia’s attorney general from 2013 until he was, said he believes religious exemptions to vaccinations should already be permitted under a 2023 law passed by the state Legislature called the

. The law stipulates that the government can’t “substantially burden” someone’s constitutional right to freedom of religion unless it can prove there is a “compelling interest” to restrict that right.

Morrisey has said that law hasn’t “been fully and properly enforced” since it passed.That’s because the star of the prosecution team — populist politician William Jennings Bryan — faltered when he took the stand as an expert witness. He struggled to defend the Bible’s miraculous and mysterious stories.

. Polls generally show that somewhere between 1 in 6 and 1 in 3 Americans hold beliefs consistent with young-Earth creationism, depending on how the question is asked.That belief is most evident in a region of northern Kentucky that hosts a Creation Museum and a gargantuan replica of the biblical

. They draw a combined 1.5 million visits per year.This trend alarms science educators, who say the evidence for evolution is overwhelming and see creationism as part of an anti-science movement affecting responses to serious problems like climate change.