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New Directive Says Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Will Officially Start Next Month

Martin H. Simon – Pool/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump’s long-expected ban on transgender service members will finally begin next month, the Pentagon announced late Tuesday night in a department memorandum.  While the president’s initial tweet in July 2017 demanded transgender individuals not “serve in any…

The Georgia House Passed a Bill to Ban Abortions After Six Weeks. Black Female Democrats Had the Best Clapback.

Rep. Park Cannon, left, Rep. Pam Stephenson, and others brought coat hangers to show opposition to HB 481, which would toughen restrictions on abortions. Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In Georgia last week, a white Republican man in the House of Representatives introduced a bill…

US Women’s National Soccer Team Sues Over Pay Discrimination

Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Members of the US women’s national soccer team Friday sued the US Soccer Federation, alleging that the sport’s governing body engaged in “intentional gender discrimination” by failing to provide wages and resources comparable to the far less successful men’s team.   “Despite the…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Had the Perfect Response to People Who Think She’s a “Pretty Idiot”

Dan Herrick/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t mince words. In an interview published Sunday in The New Yorker, the 29-year-old congresswoman took aim at her critics, whose attacks, she says, are rising to the level of “ravenous hysteria.”  What has made her such a target,…