Articles by Valerie Richardson
A California task force is on track to recommend a massive reparations package worth as much as $800 billion to compensate Black residents, but whether such a payout would pass judicial muster is another question.
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March 29, 2023
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The press secretary for Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs resigned after tweeting an image of a gun-toting woman hours after the deadly Nashville shooting with the caption: "Us when we see transphobes."
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March 29, 2023
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' press secretary ignited an uproar with a tweet blasting "transphobes" with an image of an armed woman, an image posted the same day that six students and staff at a Christian school were killed by a transgender shooter.
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March 28, 2023
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A Wisconsin man was charged Tuesday in the firebombing of a pro-life organization attacked a week after the leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. The suspect was apprehended at an airport before he could board a flight to Guatemala.
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March 28, 2023
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A squabble over "misgendering" offered a surreal sideline to the horrific Nashville Christian school massacre as activists called out news outlets scrambling to keep up with the suspect's preferred pronouns.
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March 28, 2023
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Monday a sweeping universal school-choice bill, the latest red state to enact legislation allowing state education dollars to follow the child in what he described as the largest expansion of education choice in U.S. history.
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March 27, 2023
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USA Today stood by its decision to honor male-born legislator Leigh Finke as one of its 2023 Women of the Year as critics on the right decried the move as the latest example of male-to-female transgender individuals usurping awards intended for girls and women.
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March 25, 2023
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The most recent law makes Wyoming the 19th state to approve legislation preventing biological males from playing female sports based on gender identity, an issue that has gained steam as male-born athletes like former collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas win women's sports titles.
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March 25, 2023
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Judge Kyle Duncan of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a lecture Friday at the University of Notre Dame about free speech and legal education without being heckled or shouted down, a dramatic departure from his experience two weeks earlier at Stanford Law School.
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March 24, 2023
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World Athletics, the track-and-field governing body, banned athletes who have gone through male puberty from competing in women's elite events, saying it had decided to prioritize "fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion."
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March 23, 2023
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There is no shortage of pro-transgender books for kids on library shelves, which is one reason that conservative activists Ryan and Bethany Bomberger decided to write a book of their own.
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March 23, 2023
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Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez announced Wednesday that the diversity dean who scolded a federal judge during a protest melee is now on leave, but that the left-wing student activists who shouted down the judge will not be disciplined.
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March 22, 2023
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Newsmax will return to DirecTV after the companies announced a deal to resolve a bitter dispute over carriage fees led to the popular conservative news channel being dumped for two months.
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March 22, 2023
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Democrat Maura Healey and Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders became the first women to serve as governors of their states this year, but only one of them was honored this month by USA Today -- and it wasn't Mrs. Sanders.
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March 22, 2023
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A year after naming Rachel Levine as one of its "Women of the Year," USA Today has once again honored someone who wasn't always a woman.
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March 21, 2023
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U.S. District Judge Kyle Duncan hasn't given up on speaking at universities despite being jeered and shouted down by left-wing student activists at Stanford Law School.
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March 21, 2023
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Attorneys for a 12-year-old biological male who competes on a girls' track team asked the Supreme Court Monday to keep on hold West Virginia's Save Women's Sports Act, dismissing the state's request for an emergency ruling as an overreaction.
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March 20, 2023
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The world's largest credit card companies are caught in the middle of a political slugfest over a newly created category that tracks purchases at gun stores.
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March 20, 2023
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Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has allowed a bill barring biological males from female scholastic sports to become law without his signature, but he isn't happy about it.
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March 19, 2023
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Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill making it illegal to prescribe or dispense abortion pills, making his state the first to place an outright ban on what has become the nation's most common method of pregnancy termination.
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March 18, 2023
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