Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges will not compete in a men’s or open-category race, suggesting it is not safe. Bridges, a biological man who began identifying as a woman in 2020, was ruled to be ineligible to compete in the British National Omnium Championship in 2022. That Union Cycliste Internationale race would have been Bridges’s first women’s […]
Nothing is more certain in life than death and taxes, but the success of a House rules vote was once a close third. This is a key procedural maneuver setting up debate on legislation in a congressional chamber where the majority party, and usually the speaker, historically has substantial control over the agenda. Revise that to […]
Within the next four days, Harris County, Texas, officials will share which low-income applicants have been chosen for its pilot basic income program. Last week, it was announced that the Uplift Harris program had roughly 83,000 applicants, with officials also confirming that they would tell those selected for the pilot program by Monday, per the Houston Chronicle. According to officials in […]
Less than a year after the Supreme Court ruled against the practice of race-based preferences for college admissions, the landmark decision raises questions on whether corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts should prepare for a similar fate. Hundreds of companies have begun to reassess workplace diversity initiatives since the high court ruled against affirmative action […]
WESTMINSTER, California – President Joe Biden’s disco-era opposition to resettling Vietnamese refugees in the United States is ancient political history to most voters, if they’ve heard about it at all. But not for a small yet politically potent group in Southern California’s Little Saigon. It’s living history for immigrants from Vietnam after the war, and their […]
ANAHEIM HILLS, California — Rep. Michelle Steel’s (R-CA) reelection bid, against likely Democratic opponent Derek Tran, an attorney and U.S. Army veteran, is one of several hotly contested House races in California that could help decide the majority. Republicans are trying to chip away at Democrats’ 40-12 edge in the House delegation California sends to […]
Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) plans to strike down a bill Republican lawmakers approved Wednesday that would criminalize illegal immigration in Arizona. The Senate passed the Arizona Border Invasion Act, proposed by Republican state Sen. Janae Shamp, with 16 votes. The bill would make it a crime in the state if a person came through Arizona’s […]
President Joe Biden claimed at a Thursday fundraiser that two journalists specifically told him that they plan to flee the country if he loses his White House reelection bid to former President Donald Trump. Biden made the comment at a fundraiser in Mountain View, California, the final stop on his three-day junket in the Golden […]
New York Judge Arthur Engoron rejected former President Donald Trump’s request on Thursday to delay payment of the nearly $355 million he owes by an additional 30 days. Engoron claimed the defendants had failed to produce any justification for the stay request. Lawyers for Trump had requested the stay, claiming they were not given enough […]
Alabama is looking to use the nitrogen hypoxia execution method for the second time after the new method was used last month on death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith. Smith, who was convicted of stabbing a woman to death in 1988 in a murder-for-hire scheme, was strapped to a gurney and exposed to nitrogen gas […]
