The government abandoned LGBTQ+ workers. Its former civil rights lawyers stepped up.
Inside the unofficial effort to prevent gender-identity discrimination in the workplace — and the former agency employees leading it.
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TV nudity scandal, impeachment calls, a meeting no-show: Troubles pile up for Oklahoma's schools chief
Ryan Walters' absence at a board meeting is the latest reason lawmakers from both parties are upset with him.
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‘There is no hoax’: Epstein survivors demand justice and transparency
A dozen women and advocates spoke at the Capitol amid an effort to push the government to release more information about the convicted sex offender who had powerful connections.
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Trump revokes Kamala Harris' extended Secret Service protection
The move comes ahead of the former vice president’s book tour and cancels extra security that had been authorized by former President Joe Biden.
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When did caring for America’s most vulnerable kids become political?
Though it survived elimination, Head Start is under threat. Now that they have been directed to ban undocumented children, providers wonder if politics has changed the program forever.
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Who is Lisa Cook, Federal Reserve governor targeted by Trump?
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the president cannot fire the Federal Reserve Board member — at least for now.
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Trans Texans face yet another attempt to ban them from bathrooms
Through testimony and a Capitol bathroom sit-in, trans Texans, activists and a constable argued that the state’s latest bathroom bill doesn’t make anyone safer.
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Planned Parenthood is getting involved in the redistricting battle
Alarmed by Republicans’ deep cuts to health care and restrictions on reproductive rights, advocates are supporting California’s effort to counter gerrymandering in Texas.
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Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump's political power grab
“This is in many ways a political warning, a political message, to say to these Black women and other Black mayors and other women of color mayors, ‘Your leadership can be challenged, too.’”
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How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol protest sparked solidarity among these Texas women
The Fort Worth Democrat spent the night held hostage in the Texas House in protest. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight.