In Arizona and Missouri, new lawsuits could strike down abortion rules voters said they wanted added to their state constitutions. In the Grand Canyon State, a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, on Tuesday is seeking to wipe the law that bans abortions after 15 […]
“America’s worst mayor” Tiffany Henyard lost her nomination bid to retain her position as Thornton Township supervisor on Tuesday night. The Democratic Party Caucus voted against Henyard’s nomination because she did not have a full slate of leaders, including highway director, clerk, assessor, and four trustees, on her ticket. She did not have a certified […]
A bill from Montana legislators that would require transgender lawmakers to use the bathroom of their biological sex failed to pass the state House Rules Committee. Montana has just one transgender state lawmaker, Democrat Zooey Zephyr. The bathroom bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. Jerry Schillinger, was introduced shortly after Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) introduced […]
Supreme Court justices on Wednesday used the preferred honorific of the first openly transgender-identifying person to argue before the high court during oral arguments in a landmark case on the ability of states to regulate hormone-based therapies for minors with gender dysphoria. Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT & HIV Rights […]
Talk show host Bill Maher suggested he’d rather quit his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher than cover more news surrounding President-elect Donald Trump. Maher admitted to actress Jane Fonda on his Club Random podcast Sunday that he felt like “s***ing my pants” ahead of Trump taking office in January. “I mean, I may […]
The FBI is investigating after New Jersey residents reported seeing unidentified and unmanned aircraft hovering in the skies. People in the Garden State’s Morris and Somerset counties, where President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course is located, have been notifying law enforcement since November about the mysterious flying objects, which are larger than typical hobbyist drones. […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of there being “HELL TO PAY” if Hamas does not release the Israeli hostages by his inauguration was welcomed by the father of one of the hostages. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son, Sagui Dekel-Chen, is among the hostages, told the Washington Examiner that he remains optimistic about a possible ceasefire deal that […]
President-elect Donald Trump appointed former Abraham Accords negotiator Adam Boehler as his Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. Boehler will hold the personal rank of Ambassador in the position. His appointment was announced in a post on Truth Social, alongside a flurry of other appointments. “He has negotiated with some of the toughest people in […]
Hunter Biden could return to testify before Congress next year even after his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him of federal crimes, according to Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY). It’s unclear whether House Republicans will continue investigations into the Biden family when they continue their majority next Congress, but Comer did not close the door […]
D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing Amazon for allegedly misleading Prime membership holders in two wards to believe they had access to same-day, one-day, and two-day delivery speeds when they didn’t. In 2022, Amazon stopped using its fleet of branded trucks to make deliveries in the D.C. zip codes 20019 and 20020, which are […]
