.@FLOTUS visited Jackson, Wyo. this week — her first visit to the Cowboy State since
@realDonaldTrump was elected POTUS.
She was met by a cheering crowd surrounding the square, some singing the national anthem, others calling out, “We love you, Melania!”
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- Facing scathing backlash from hunters over proposed federal land sales, Utah Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee says he’s willing to “make changes” to his bill. But hunters say compromise is impossible and the bill needs to die. tinyurl.com/bpa2at89
- Seven women are suing the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority for admitting a transgender woman into its sorority. The lawsuit says the individual has a profile on Tinder to meet women and "had an erection visible through his leggings" at the sorority house.
- In the wake of President Trump signaling support for increasing low-tariff beef imports from Argentina to remedy record beef prices, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman introduced a bill on Friday to require country of origin labeling.
- Wyoming hunters said they won’t budge from their staunch opposition to selling public land. That’s despite U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, still pushing for a revised version of his federal land sales measure in a Senate budget bill. tinyurl.com/33eapybt
- President Donald Trump pardoned Troy Lake on Friday. The 65-year-old Wyoming diesel mechanic spent seven months in federal prison for tweaking and removing emissions systems on ailing engines. When he got the news, he wept.
- Freshman congresswoman Harriet Hageman easily won a second term in the U.S. House on Tuesday. She's become one of the most vocal watchdogs on the First Amendment and government overreach.
- The University of Wyoming volleyball team will forfeit its Saturday match with San Jose State University, which has a transgender player. UW had previously said it would play, but has been under pressure to forfeit from an advocacy group and Republican lawmakers.
- A scaled-back plan by Utah Sen. Mike Lee to sell public lands has made back it into the final text of the Senate's version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Montana Sen. Steve Daines says he has the votes to kill it.
- A group fighting a proposed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in Cody has filed a court petition intending to halt construction of the building and its controversial 77-foot steeple.
- Hidden in plain sight for years was a treasure that may be worth as much or more than the Wyoming museum that now has it.
- Teton County commissioners have sent a letter to Wyoming’s congressional delegation asking that federal lands in the county be exempt from any proposed sale. Montana got an exemption, and Teton County officials want the same.
- Wheatland resident Charles Hoskinson donated his Black Hawk helicopter and four pilots to provide resources to people in North Carolina devastated by Hurricane Helene. He said they met no other volunteer crew that had traveled as far as Wyoming to help. shorturl.at/x2F1O
- The killing of the 10-year-old, 250- to 300-pound bear was ruled a case of legitimate self-defense by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Park.

