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Jan 20, 2025 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked
When Rachel Izzo woke up on Saturday morning, she wasn't sure protesting was in the cards. It was chilly, her friend had canceled and it had been a long week at work. But she decided she needed to go. "I said, If I don't go to this, I'm going to be mad," Izzo admitted, as she gripped a poster of a coat hanger, a longtime symbol of the abortion rights movement. "If I don't show up, I'm going to be just ... sitting back and letting it happen.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked
Political leaders in Washington will honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter with a funeral service at the National Cathedral this morning. Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at 100, was the nation's longest-living president.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked |Tamara Keith
Updated January 09, 2025 at 10:48 AM ETPolitical leaders in Washington are honoring the life of former President Jimmy Carter with a funeral service at the National Cathedral this morning. It's the ultimate Washington insider sendoff for a public servant known throughout his career as a political outsider. Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at 100, was the nation's longest-living president.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked
When former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., decided to withdraw his candidacy to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general, he used a familiar phrase. "It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction," Gaetz wrote on social media. "There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle."Trump's choice of Gaetz gave some Republican senators pause.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Domenico Montanaro |Elena Moore |Moore worked |Nick McMillan
In the debate over whether demography is destiny, the 2024 presidential election showed clearly it is not. Democrats long believed that the diversifying of the country would lead to their party's long-term success, but President-elect Trump was able to win over many of the voters Democrats believed they could rely on, showing identity is less important when people feel negatively toward the incumbent party on things like prices and immigration.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Lexie Schapitl |Deirdre Walsh |Elena Moore |Moore worked
Updated November 21, 2024 at 14:52 PM ETFormer Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is withdrawing his candidacy to be President-elect Trump's attorney general, after sex trafficking and drug use allegations threatened to imperil his confirmation.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked |Rachel Treisman
Updated November 20, 2024 at 12:12 PM ETRepublican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has introduced legislation that would ban transgender women from using facilities on federal property— like bathrooms and locker rooms — that do not correspond with the sex they were assigned at birth. The legislation is a follow up to a similar measure the Congresswoman introduced on Monday that was limited to facilities on the House side of the U.S. Capitol.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked |Rachel Treisman
Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is defending a measure she recently introduced that would ban transgender women from women's bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol. It is unclear if the effort will get a vote or if rules in the Capitol will be changed,+ but the move comes just two weeks after Democrat Sarah McBride became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Mace characterized this specific measure as an attempt to protect women's rights.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Elena Moore |Moore worked
President-elect Donald Trump has selected longtime aide and media personality Karoline Leavitt to be his White House press secretary and carry the message of his administration publicly as he returns to the Oval Office. Leavitt has become a prominent face on the Trump team, serving as national press secretary for the campaign and now for the transition team. She is also an alum of the president-elect's first White House administration, where she worked as an assistant press secretary.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
kpbs.org | Deirdre Walsh |Lexie Schapitl |Elena Moore |Moore worked
Matt Gaetz's nomination to be the next attorney general could face an uphill path in the Senate, as a growing number of Republican senators are calling for access to a House Ethics Committee probe into Gaetz's conduct. Gaetz resigned from the House Thursday, a day after President-elect Trump announced his nomination. That ends a House Ethics Committee investigation into sex trafficking and drug use allegations against Gaetz that began in 2021. Democratic Sen.
