Democrat Danica Roem was elected Tuesday to become Virginia’s first openly transgender state senator. With just over 51% of the vote, the 39-year-old defeated former Fairfax County police detective Bill Woolf, a conservative who was endorsed by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). Woolf had promised to ban transgender athletes from participating in school sports if […]
Ohio voters decided to codify reproductive freedom into the state constitution on Tuesday in a monumental win for abortion rights supporters. Issue 1, also known as the Right to Make Reproductive Decisions Including Abortion Initiative, will add language to the Ohio Constitution declaring that anyone in the state has a right to “make and carry […]
The nation’s train-rider-in-chief visited an Amtrak maintenance shop in his home state Monday to tout $16 billion in projects to improve rail service in the Northeast Corridor, Amtrak’s busiest line in the country. “We’re announcing a historic investment in America’s railroads. I’ve been talking about this for a long time, I know. But finally, finally, […]
Nearly one month into Israel’s U.S.-backed military assault on the Gaza Strip, some State Department officials say their agency is being sidelined in a way that risks hurting American foreign policy, demoralizing valuable personnel and worsening the humanitarian toll of the war. Many diplomats are alarmed by Washington’s largely unrestricted approval of Israel’s conduct in […]
Virginia state Rep. Tara Durant (R) regularly tells the story of how she first got into politics. It was June 2020, and as Durant tells it, an “angry mob” of Black Lives Matter “rioters” surrounded her car in downtown Fredericksburg. They “assaulted” the vehicle with Durant and her 12-year-old daughter inside, she says. When she […]
Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D) dressed up as Ted Cruz for Halloween, mocking the time the Republican lawmaker fled to Cancun, Mexico, during the state’s ice storm in 2021. “I was thinking about the scariest Halloween costume and quickly found one: Senator who flees to Cancun,” Gutierrez wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Cruz famously […]
Last September, Riley headed to their clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which was usually brimming with chatter about the day’s research and patient needs. But that fall morning, Vanderbilt was thrown into chaos, and the clinic for gender-affirming surgeries, which serviced both trans youth and adults, had been shut down for the day. The […]
“Fox & Friends” preached hard to the choir Tuesday as Kayleigh McEnany and Ainsley Earhardt previewed McEnany’s interview with new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). (Watch the video below.) In banter that seemed to come straight out of Sunday school, McEnany gushed over the religious Johnson. “I really believe he thinks God is leading the […]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Monday put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked older restrictions that for years have spelled out what providers must tell patients and forced patients to wait 24 hours to end their pregnancies. The ruling was another big victory for abortion rights advocates […]
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court dismissed a gun charge Monday against a Washington state senator who had been arrested after he carried a gun into the Chinese territory in what he called an “honest mistake.” Republican Jeff Wilson self-declared that he was carrying the gun at the airport Oct. 21, has a […]