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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia announced on Monday he is stepping down as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee and will not be seeking reelection next year due to his cancer returning, ending his long career in public life.“The sun is setting on my time in public service,” Connolly said in a statement. “With no rancor and a full heart, I move into this final chapter full of pride in what we’ve accomplished together over 30 years.”Connolly, 75, has served in Congress since 2009 and represents northern Virginia, including Fairfax County. House Minority Leader…
The Trump administration is once again putting LGBTQ+ lives at risk — this time by proposing to gut federal support for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services.A leaked budget draft obtained by The Washington Post reveals that beginning October 1, the administration plans to eliminate funding for the LGBTQ+-specific crisis line, a service that has helped more than 1.2 million LGBTQ+ people in moments of crisis. The decision, experts warn, could have catastrophic consequences.“For countless LGBTQ+ individuals, the crisis line isn’t just a service — it’s a lifeline,” Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary and…
Liberal Carney (left) and Conservative Poilievre (right) are in a tight dispute to be the next Canadian PM. After a much-fought electoral campaign that revolved around Donald J. Trump’s tariffs and his statements about turning it into the 51st US state, Canadians went out to vote in the snap election that will determine who will become the country’s next prime minister. Polls are starting to close in Canada, after a vote coming just six weeks after Mark Carney was sworn in as PM, replacing his party colleague, embattled Justin Trudeau BBC reported: “The two clear frontrunners are the Liberal Party…
Each season, RuPaul’s Drag Race crowns a new queen as America’s “Next Drag Superstar,” which inevitably means that there can only be one winner amongst a serious cast of performers. Still, despite the show only crowning one winner, some contestants show that there is more than one way to walk away from what RuPaul calls the “Olympics of drag” as a winner. Take, for example, Kori King, who came in ninth place on the 17th season of Drag Race. Despite not walking away from her season with a crown, she walked away with something equal in value: popularity. LONDON, ENGLAND…
Colombian Interior Minister Armando Benedetti revealed in an interview on Sunday that he suffers from drug and alcohol addiction, asserting, “I wouldn’t want to be addicted, but I am.” Benedetti, a former senator, is a highly controversial member of the Colombian government and part of the inner circle of far-left and pro-cocaine President Gustavo Petro — who was recently accused by his former Foreign Minster Álvaro Leyva of also having a drug addiction. The interior minister spoke with the Colombian magazine Cambio on Sunday and disclosed his long history of substance abuse problems, stating that he has spent 27 of…
Truckers are celebrating President Donald Trump’s decision to restore enforcement of a rule that excludes foreign truckers from the roads if they cannot read English-language signs and instructions. “They’re celebrating … Everybody’s excited, they’re happy,” said Shannon Everett, a cofounder of American Truckers United. who explained the truckers’ problems to Breitbart News in March. The change is set by an executive order to be signed by Trump on Monday. The order tells Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “to ensure drivers violating English proficiency rules are placed out-of-service, enhancing roadway safety,” and directs him to revamp other aspects of the trucking industry. In 2016,…
A poll suggests that if Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) were to enter the race to be the next governor of New York, she would not only have a commanding lead in the Republican primary, but she would also close in on defeating Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY). The GrayHouse poll conducted between April 22-24, 2025, which surveyed 826 registered voters in New York, found that if the next Republican primary for governor of New York were held today, 44 percent of voters would support Stefanik, while seven percent would support Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman received five…
Many workers were forced to leave their posts in Spain and Portugal on Monday after a major power cut affected phone lines, internet access, card payments, and left citizens without light.The Portuguese electricity operator REN said the outage was caused by a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” related to extreme temperature changes in Spain.The President of the EU council António Costa ruled out a cyber-attack as the cause of the outage, dispelling rumours.Spanish economy temporarily “shut down”“Essentially, the Spanish economy is shut down for the day and that means that businesses will take a short-term hit, but ultimately the total disruption will…
NEW YORK — New York City mayoral campaigns aren’t allowed to strategize with super PACs that support their candidates, but Andrew Cuomo has found a way around that. With significantly less cash on hand than he’d hoped due to a paperwork error, the Democratic frontrunner is relying on a legal practice known as redboxing to communicate his preferred messaging to anyone squinting at the bottom of his website. And if the reader happens to work for a super PAC backing Cuomo, that messaging could find its way into the TV ads the group is airing on his behalf. He would…
ATLANTA (AP) — Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms filed papers Monday to raise money for a 2026 run for Georgia governor.Bottoms, a Democrat who broke Atlanta tradition by not seeking an expected second term as mayor, says she’ll hold an official announcement of her campaign later. But she has repeatedly signaled that she’s entering the race.As an early supporter of former President Joe Biden, she was among the Black women considered to be his running mate. She left the mayor’s office in 2022 after a tense end to her term and became a CNN commentator before joining the Biden…