President Joe Biden earned the ire of conservatives and a famous transgender woman‚ Caitlyn Jenner‚ when he issued a proclamation recognizing the Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV). "Today‚ we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America‚ and my entire Administration and I have your back‚" the president said in a statement released on Friday. The message angered a number of conservatives as TDoV fell on March...

My wife gave birth to our first child earlier this year‚ and I am over-the-moon in love with being a father to my baby boy. Along my parenthood journey‚ I’ve thought a lot about the life I want to help build for my son and the community I want him to grow up in. At the same time‚ I’ve thought a lot about the things I experienced as a kid that I hope he never has to.  For example‚ I hope my son never has to feel a drop in his stomach as he approaches the cashier at a grocery store‚...

Iran has vowed revenge after Israeli war planes destroyed the Iranian consulate in Damascus‚ killing at least seven people‚ including a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds force. Iran’s leaders in Tehran described the targeting of a diplomatic mission late on Monday as unprecedented and promised a harsh response. Iran said that several long-serving diplomats were killed alongside Brig Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi and Zahedi’s deputy‚ Gen Haji Rahimi. It was...

The senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed Monday when an Israeli airstrike hit the Syrian capital‚ destroying a section of the Iranian Embassy. The Saudi Al-Arabiya news network and Reuters confirmed that IRGC chief Mohammad Reza Zahedi was in Damascus’ Mezzeh district when an alleged Israeli airstrike hit a building near the Iranian Embassy. The building was left in rubble‚ with smoke rising from the remains as first responders arrived and...

The Israeli Air Force allegedly carried out an airstrike on a building next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus on Monday‚ reportedly killing seven members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps‚ including the top Iranian commander in Syria. The strike in the Damascus-area municipality of Mezzeh hit a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy‚ footage showed. A Reuters report said a building in the embassy compund was “flattened‚” in what it said was “a startling apparent escalation of...

The Florida Supreme Court approved the language of an abortion rights amendment slated to be on the ballot for the general election this fall‚ a victory for abortion rights activists and Democrats‚ who hope it will provide an advantage to their candidates. The court split in a 4-3 decision released on Monday found that the abortion rights amendment is clear despite its broad-reaching implications for abortion access. “That the proposed amendment’s principal goal and chief purpose is to...

The Florida Supreme Court on Monday upheld the state’s 15-week abortion ban‚ yet also approved a ballot measure that would protect abortion access if voters pass it in November.  Facing an April 1 deadline to rule on the ballot measure‚ the court sided with Floridians Protecting Freedom‚ a coalition of abortion rights groups sponsoring the initiative. By greenlighting the measure‚ the court dealt a serious blow to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and GOP Attorney General Ashley Moody‚ who opposed...

The Florida Supreme Court overturned decades of legal precedent on Monday in ruling that the State Constitution’s privacy protections do not extend to abortion‚ effectively allowing Florida to ban the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. But in a separate decision released at the same time‚ the justices allowed Florida voters to decide this fall whether to expand abortion access. The court ruled unanimously that a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to...

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