WASHINGTON — Newcastle High School science teacher Zach Beam participated in a ceremony at the White House on Monday honoring 2023 national and state teachers of the year, as the country’s public schools have been thrust to the center of ongoing culture war debates over LGBTQ rights and gun violence.

CHEYENNE, Wyo.—As the Biden Administration announced that it will devote more resources to counteracting the flow of illicit fentanyl into American communities, Wyoming law enforcement is grappling with a record number of fentanyl seizures throughout the state with a new, even more potent variant containing an animal tranquilizer having been recently detected.