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Families weigh moves with gender-affirming care access under assault in US

By Mariam Sunny May 21 (Reuters) - Confronted with Trump Administration threats to gender-affirming care for young transgender people, American families are weighing moves out of their states to gain access to needed healthcare, according to doctors, patients, policy experts and advocacy groups. Upon taking ...
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The House takes another Iran war vote

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House is expected to vote on legislation Thursday to compel President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran, a significant test of lawmakers' willingness to go along with a conflict the president launched over two months. The vote is ...
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The Media Line: Republican Jewish Coalition Welcomes Captain Ed Gallrein’s Primary Victory Over US Congressman Thomas Massie  

Republican Jewish Coalition Welcomes Captain Ed Gallrein's Primary Victory Over US Congressman Thomas Massie By The Media Line Staff The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) on Tuesday congratulated Captain Ed Gallrein on winning the Republican primary in Kentucky's 4th congressional district, defeating Rep. ...
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Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election are casting a shadow over Georgia’s GOP runoffs

ATLANTA (AP) - For Donald Trump, it seems the 2020 presidential election is never over. That's especially true in Georgia. The Republican president's years of false claims that his defeat to Democrat Joe Biden was due to widespread fraud have shadowed many elections since in ...
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Republicans expected to abandon $1B security proposal for White House and Trump’s ballroom

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republican leaders are expected to abandon a proposal for $1 billion in security money for the White House complex and President Donald Trump's ballroom on Thursday after members of their own party questioned the timing and the lack of detail ...
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Democrats try to defeat candidate expressing antisemitic views in Texas runoff on Tuesday

Democratic leaders are trying to prevent Maureen Galindo, a candidate who has repeatedly expressed antisemitic views, from winning their party's nomination in next week's Texas runoff, and they've accused Republicans of propping up her campaign. Galindo faces Johnny Garcia in the runoff for the Democratic ...
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US Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson advance to GOP runoff in Alabama for US Senate

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Barry Moore and former Navy SEAL Jared Hudson advanced to a runoff Wednesday for the Republican nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Alabama. Moore is a three-term congressman endorsed by President Donald Trump and Hudson is a ...
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US Republican senator says Trump ballroom funding removed from spending bill

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican Senator John Kennedy on Wednesday said there was insufficient support in the Senate to spend $1 billion on a planned White House ballroom and related security measures, and that the proposal would not be included ...
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Trump helps oust Massie and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries

(WASHINGTON) -- A batch of closely watched primaries in six states on Tuesday both set up some key midterm election matchups and gestured to major forces shaping the Democratic and Republican parties -- from the strength of President Donald Trump's endorsement to the road ...
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US Senator Durbin urges RFK. Jr to resist easing vape rules

By Emma Rumney LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resist an easing of rules on flavoured vapes, saying the moves were short-sighted and driven by lobbying and donations from big tobacco companies. ...
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Police officers who guarded Capitol sue to block Trump’s $1.8 billion ‘slush fund’

By Jan Wolfe May 20 (Reuters) - Two police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from rioters on January 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to halt President Donald Trump's nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of political "weaponization." In a complaint filed ...
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Barney Frank, former Massachusetts congressman and gay rights advocate, dies at 86

(WASHINGTON) -- Barney Frank, the former Massachusetts congressman who championed Wall Street reform and served as one of the first openly gay members of Congress, has died at 86, sources told ABC News.The former U.S. representative served as chairman of the powerful House Financial ...
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