by Jenny Huh | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Six-year-old Isa says she doesn’t mind being a girl with a penis. “Yep, very happy,” said Isa, formerly Isaac, who, according to her mother Violet A., has identified herself as a girl since she started speaking at two. Though she’s too young to know that...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured, Politics
In 2009, Carrboro, North Carolina Alderman Lydia Lavelle asked the state legislature for permission to include LGBTQ people in Carrboro’s laws banning housing discrimination. Lawmakers said no. North Carolina’s statewide anti-discrimination law does not include...
by David Fishman | Nov 10, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Featured
NEW YORK — In a stunning upset, Republican Donald Trump Wednesday morning was elected the 45th president of the United States — ending a dramatic campaign by assuring voters he would seek to unify a broken country. Here are some captured moments from inside the...
by Cat Zakrzewski | Jan 8, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON — On the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, his eldest daughter commemorated what she called America’s “moral obligation” to raise its citizens from poverty during a ceremony Wednesday at the Capitol. Rep. Barbara Lee,...
by Shirley Li | Mar 6, 2012 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama faced an eager press Tuesday in his first official news conference this year, taking on tough topics ranging from the question of possible U.S. involvement in Syria to conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh. After quickly...