Earlier this week, Gonzales had advanced to a May 26 runoff election, and was set to face Brandon Herrera in a rematch of a race Gonzales narrowly won in 2024. On Thursday afternoon, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP leaders called for him to end his 2026 campaign.
The South Dakota Republican centralized herself throughout her tenure. She posed with loaded guns next to immigration enforcement officers. She appeared at briefings decked out in tactical gear. She visited active operations, w constant in-house promotional footage produced along the way.
News of Noem’s removal spread as she was giving a keynote speech to the Sergeants Benevolent Association, and answering specific questions about her department’s work on immigration. It was not clear during the question-and-answer session whether she knew about Trump’s announcement.
The Fair Housing for Survivors Act would amend the Fair Housing Act to expand protections for people who have experienced domestic violence and sexual assault, ensuring they cannot be evicted or denied access to housing on the basis of being survivors of those crimes.
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Republican Rep. Nancy Mace this week introduced a resolution to release all investigative reports into sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress, saying her colleague is “not the only one” who has faced these claims of inappropriate advances.
“I got along good with my mom — I was the youngest of 11 kids,” Martell said. “I didn’t get in trouble with the law or school or anything before I met him. I was pretty sheltered.”
“He just straight up was like, ‘Oh, I’ve never met a Black person with Tourette syndrome before.’ He didn’t think I had it, because he’d never met anyone with it who looked like me. He was like, ‘Are you sure? Have you been checked for anything else?’" Winston said.
Crockett and Talarico were generally aligned on policy, and both rose to prominence in large part through social media, making the race largely about stylistic and strategic differences.
Gonzales will face off against Brandon Herrera, who narrowly lost to Gonzales two years ago, in a May 26 runoff.
Paid leave laws are in 13 blue states and the District of Columbia: California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware and Minnesota.
“I’d probably have to quit my job. I need to make sure she can spend time with friends and her boyfriend, but she would still be more socially isolated,” Walters said.
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“We wrote letters to process our feelings, to give advice about how they should treat people differently because we felt like they aren’t treating people the way we talk about how we should treat others — the Golden Rule,” Nelson said.
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After Fort’s release later that day, her 7-year-old asked her what “prison” was like. The 8-year-old had questions about her own safety and that of other family members: Would immigration agents come and get her at gymnastics practice? Would they take her dad?
Nearly every example of his policy wins was accompanied by reference to a woman, either hypothetical or present in the chamber.
Though Trump spoke about abortion in his 2019 and 2020 State of the Union speeches, calling for a ban on what abortion opponents call “late-term abortions,” he ignored the issue in his address before Congress last year.
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Spanberger made headlines last year when she became the first woman governor of the state, part of a wave of Democratic electoral wins. She focused her campaign on affordability and education, leaning on her law enforcement background and identity as a mother to appeal to voters.
Lawmakers’ guests to Tuesday night’s speech will include at least half a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender with ties to many powerful people who died while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
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“I’m parenting in a political climate that could separate my whole family. It could break us apart,” Ana said. “It’s just one more thing; this emotional labor that we carry on as mothers — but this one’s with more stress.”
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“Hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you or why you don’t own a kelly bag,” he wrote. To which Epstein responded: “It’s the tail of distribution , no really smart women – none.”
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Three in 10 Americans qualify as Christian nationalism adherents or sympathizers, according to Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey data released this week. American women are just as likely as American men to hold Christian nationalist views.
"We don’t know the long-term effects. We don’t understand their effects on children. Assume that children should have zero exposure to these chemicals.”
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“September 30, 1999, was one of the worst days of my life,” Boynton said. “It was one of the days that I lost somebody that I really loved and I cared about and I felt like I didn’t know how to save him anymore.”
Such a powerful story.
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“He gave me my wings. He understood I could organize and he gave me every opportunity. He rooted me in politics. He let me know that I could manage campaigns. … Practically every skill I learned, I learned standing on his shoulders.”
Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics, finally won gold. At 41, she is the oldest American woman to win gold at the Winter Games. Her two sons watched her achievement from the crowd in Cortina, Italy. https://bit.ly/46f07zH
