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In the first episode of A View From the Hill, Kerry Eleveld, The Advocate's Washington correspondent, talks with former Clinton aide Richard Socarides and a panel of Capitol Hill insiders about the prospects for repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" before the end of 2010.

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Eric Swalwell’s governor bid is collapsing as top Democrats turn on him

After sexual assault revelations surfaced, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and California Rep. Robert Garcia are calling for their colleague in Congress to exit the race.

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What Melania Trump’s bizarre Jeffrey Epstein press event reveals about a White House in chaos

Behind the White House appearance that shocked even the aides in Donald Trump's inner circle.

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Former Biden HHS leaders hail syphilis breakthrough as Trump dismantles the system behind it

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Could Minneapolis welcome bathhouses back for the first time since the late 1980s?

The Minneapolis City Council voted 12-0 to explore licensing facilities and ending a prohibition on adult sex venues in place since 1988.

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Retired Space Force colonel warns Trump’s Iran strikes are ‘reckless adventurism and distraction’

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An NBC News live feed airs a clip from U.S. President Donald Trump’s Truth Social video announcement in the White House James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on February 28, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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Puerto Vallarta felt like ‘The Purge,' American says of unrest in Mexican tourist destination

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Shortly after mid-morning Sunday, black smoke began rising in staggered columns across the curve of Mexico’s Bay of Banderas, a familiar postcard vista that, by nightfall, had become a horizon of surging unrest. Keep Reading →

Hillary Clinton and Sarah McBride expose how weaponizing ‘scarcity’ drives anti-trans political attacks

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Hillary Clinton moderates the panel talk "Girls Just Want to Have Fundamental Rights: Fighting the Global Pushback" at the 62nd Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2026 in Munich, Germany.

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The first out transgender member of the U.S. Congress took the world stage in Germany last week, warning that attacks on people like her and on LGBTQ+ rights more broadly are being weaponized in the current political climate, as she joined former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on a high-profile panel at the Munich Security Conference. Keep Reading →

Canadian school shooting sparks anti-trans uproar after shooter identified

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the media about the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Parliament Hill February 11, 2026 in Ottawa, Canada.

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Canadian authorities have identified the shooter who killed eight people — mostly children — at a school in British Columbia on Tuesday. Keep Reading →

LGBTQ+ people are important to global economy, corporate allies say at Davos

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Workday showed its LGBTQ+ support at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.

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As rainbow lights washed across corporate venues in the Swiss Alpine resort town of Davos, advocates and allies sent a message that cut through the noise of the World Economic Forum: LGBTQ+ people belong in the global economy, even — and perhaps especially — when powerful leaders try to push them out. Keep Reading →
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