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Florida Just Became the First State in the Country to Say No to Abortion Rights
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Florida Just Became the First State in the Country to Say No to Abortion Rights

Slate  

A ballot initiative that would have enshrined abortion rights in the Florida state constitution failed on Tuesday, falling 3 points short of the 60 percent threshold it needed to pass. He pointed out that 57 percent of Florida voters supported the initiative, which in most other states would have meant a decisive win for abortion rights. I’m not gonna give …

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Vietnam's most powerful Communist Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong dies at 80
5 months ago

Vietnam's most powerful Communist Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong dies at 80

New Indian Express  

HANOI: Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful contemporary leader and architect of the country's largest anti-corruption campaign, died Friday at the age of 80, state media said. During Trong's 13 years as general secretary of the Communist Party, thousands of people were arrested on corruption charges and a crackdown on dissidents and activists intensified in the one-party state. Trong would …

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Donald Trump calls hush money trial judge ’crooked’ after facing jail time warning for violating trial gag order
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Donald Trump calls hush money trial judge ’crooked’ after facing jail time warning for violating trial gag order

Live Mint  

Donald Trump returned briefly to the campaign trail Wednesday and called the judge presiding over his hush money trial “crooked” a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. In imposing the fine for posts on Trump's Truth Social account and campaign website, Judge Juan M. Merchan said that …

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Jill Biden’s swing through Southern California: Fundraisers, protesters and a stop at SoulCycle
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Jill Biden’s swing through Southern California: Fundraisers, protesters and a stop at SoulCycle

LA Times  

First Lady Jill Biden speaks at the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles dinner Saturday at the Fairmont Century Plaza. Almost as soon as she landed in Los Angeles, Biden faced protesters, who stood outside the Hancock Park home where she held a Friday night fundraiser, carrying posters of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas and chanting, “Bring them home.” The next …

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Energizing South Carolina’s Black voters is crucial to Biden as campaign looks ahead to swing states
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Energizing South Carolina’s Black voters is crucial to Biden as campaign looks ahead to swing states

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. Biden’s support among Black voters has waned considerably since he assembled his winning coalition four years ago. Interviews with a wide array of Democratic-leaning Black voters in South Carolina ahead of Saturday’s primary revealed general support for the president, from early voting centers in Columbia, the state capital, to a …

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Abortion rights supporters launch campaign for Maryland constitutional amendment
11 months ago

Abortion rights supporters launch campaign for Maryland constitutional amendment

Associated Press  

— Abortion rights supporters in Maryland launched a campaign on Monday — the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade — to enshrine the right for women to end their pregnancies in the Maryland Constitution in November. Last year, Maryland lawmakers voted to put the constitutional amendment on the ballot after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022 and ended …

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Anti-LGBTQ+ laws put U.S. in a state of emergency, Human Rights Campaign says
1 year, 6 months ago

Anti-LGBTQ+ laws put U.S. in a state of emergency, Human Rights Campaign says

LA Times  

Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a February news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign in Nashville to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee Legislature. Statehouses across the U.S. have increasingly introduced bills and passed laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, creating an imminent threat to health and safety, according to the Human Rights Campaign, which was …

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Michigan Democrat blasts GOP ‘groomer’ slurs and school censorship efforts in powerful speech
2 years, 8 months ago

Michigan Democrat blasts GOP ‘groomer’ slurs and school censorship efforts in powerful speech

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “You can’t claim that you are targeting marginalised kids in the name of ‘parental …

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Philippine leader’s top critic wages poll battle from jail
2 years, 9 months ago

Philippine leader’s top critic wages poll battle from jail

Associated Press  

MANILA, Philippines — With her hand raised high to greet the crowd, Philippine Sen. Leila de Lima appeared on stage campaigning for re-election in upcoming polls. “I’m a fighter,” said the bespectacled former human rights commission chief and justice secretary, who welcomed an AP journalist, her lawyer and staff with a smile and a fist bump in jail as two …

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Tennessee governor OKs transgender youth treatment ban
3 years, 7 months ago

Tennessee governor OKs transgender youth treatment ban

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After signing two bills into law targeting transgender people over the past week, Tennessee’s Gov. Just a day earlier, the first-term Republican governor signed off on legislation that would require businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with …

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Political consultant Steve Afriat, lobbyist and advocate for gay rights, dies at 68
3 years, 11 months ago

Political consultant Steve Afriat, lobbyist and advocate for gay rights, dies at 68

LA Times  

Lobbyist and longtime campaign consultant Steve Afriat held a lifelong fascination with politics, one that led him to work on campaigns as a teen, run for state office twice and spend decades offering behind-the-scenes counsel to the region’s elected officials. But he was especially proud to have been the first openly gay man to run a Los Angeles City Council …

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