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        Senate Democrats Hold Floor Overnight to Protest Trump EPA Pick
    Sens. Ed Markey and Cory Booker were among the Democrats opposing the appointment of Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency. The Senate votes on Trump's nominee today.
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Senate Democrats Hold Floor Overnight to Protest Trump EPA Pick

Sens. Ed Markey and Cory Booker were among the Democrats opposing the appointment of Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency. The Senate votes on Trump's nominee today.

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Senate Democrats Hold Floor Overnight to Protest Trump EPA Pick

Sens. Ed Markey and Cory Booker were among the Democrats opposing the appointment of Scott Pruitt to run the Environmental Protection Agency. The Senate votes on Trump's nominee today.

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The High Court's ruling came down in an early-evening unsigned order.

The policy does not negate the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock ruling which found that discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation or gender identity is unconstitutional.

The Beatles star revealed that Yoko Ono once suggested her husband was gay.

Saturday Night Live is being called out by a Tourette syndrome advocacy group due to a controversial skit that was responsive to a racial slur incident at the BAFTAs.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

More For You

Most Popular

Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

These are some of his worst comments about LGBTQ+ people made by Charlie Kirk.

The California governor urged Democrats to be more "culturally normal."

MAGA Republican Lauren Boebert's son Tyler Boebert, 20, was cited over the weekend for child abuse without injury.

“This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans,” Monica Bennett, ACLU of Kansas legal director, said.

The shooting happened as the venue was closing.