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NBC News reports: A staffer at a Florida high school was suspended Tuesday after a county school board said she allowed her transgender daughter to play on a girls sports team in violation of state law. The School Board of Broward County voted 5-4 to suspend Jessica Norton from her job as a computer information specialist at Monarch High School …

The Hill reports: Republicans are making a last push against the finalization of the Biden administration’s move to reschedule marijuana, despite advocates saying the fight isn’t worth the effort. The comment period for this rule ended last week, with an analysis finding over 40,000 comments had been submitted, a majority in favor of the change. Among the comments was a …

Charleston’s ABC affiliate reports: Gov. Henry McMaster has weighed in on the South Carolina Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the state’s three methods of execution. The state’s highest court, in a nearly 100-page opinion, upheld the firing quad, electric chair and lethal injection, along with the state’s death penalty itself, are legal. “The Supreme Court has rightfully upheld the rule of …

The Associated Press reports: Rudy Giuliani has agreed to a last-minute deal to end his personal bankruptcy case and pay about $400,000 to a financial adviser hired by his creditors, avoiding a potential deep-dive into the former New York City mayor’s finances that was threatened by a federal judge. The agreement was filed Wednesday in federal court in White Plains, …

“I frankly just think it’s hysterical how much the media is overreacting to it. The President, which is one of the good things about him, the President doesn’t do scripted BS stuff. “He actually goes into hostile audiences, he answers tough questions, he pushes back against them, but he actually answers them and how nice it is to have an …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Former candidate for Arizona Attorney General Abe Hamadeh is the victor in a packed race for the Republican nomination for the state’s 8th Congressional District. As of Wednesday night, when The Associated Press called the race for Hamadeh, he had garnered nearly 30% of votes, compared to the runner-up, venture capitalist Blake Masters, who came away …

Florida Politics reports: U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds said Donald Trump faced a hostile environment at a National Association of Black Journalists conference. The speech gained instant attention when the Republican presidential nominee questioned the racial identity of likely Democratic opponent Kamala Harris. But Donalds, a Black Republican recently considered for Trump’s running mate, said Trump also communicated a record that …

NBC News reports: A federal judge in Alabama on Tuesday refused to block the Biden administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students in four Republican-led states, breaking with six other judges who have said the rules are invalid. U.S. District Judge Annemarie Axon in Birmingham in a 122-page ruling, rejected various arguments that the four states led by …

Roll Call reports: Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, may not be fond of “childless cat ladies,” but he’s almost certain to skip a vote this week on legislation to expand the child tax credit. The Senate is scheduled to take a procedural vote Thursday on a House-passed bill that would expand the credit for low-income …

Mediaite reports: Trump VP pick Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) made a rather unfortunate offhand reference at a rally amid baseless accusations he confessed to sexually violating a couch. “I have been the beneficiary, I have to say, of a number of strong women in my life, especially my beautiful wife who you guys saw earlier. Now, I would call her …

Via press release from Missouri AG Andrew Bailey: Today, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit against the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for failing in its legal obligation to fulfill a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request asking for documents and communications regarding the transportation of illegal immigrants into Missouri. “Once again, the Biden Administration is trying …

Courthouse News reports: Republican U.S. representatives asked New York’s high court Tuesday to overturn a law that allows any voter to request and submit a mail-in ballot, arguing the rule violates election provisions of the state constitution. U.S. Representatives Elise Stefanik, Nicole Malliotakis, Nicholas Langworthy and Claudia Tenney, alongside other Republican elected officials, voters and the party’s state and national …

The Associated Press reports: Kari Lake won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona on Tuesday, setting up a fierce battle against Democratic U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego for a seat that could be crucial to deciding Senate control. Accepting victory Tuesday night, Lake called Trump a “hero” and urged his supporters to back her as well. “He can’t do …

“To be a little stark about this, I think we have to go to war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country. Not enough people have accepted that if they put their entire life’s meaning into their credential, into where they went to school, into what kind of job they have ― if you put all of your …

The Hill reports: Republican lawmakers are divided over whether former President Trump should ditch his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who has become a magnet for controversy and negative press coverage since Trump tapped him for the role earlier this month. “I would assume he’s not real happy,” one Republican senator said of how Trump is handling the barrage …

“I’ve seen people who become more attached to their communities, to their families, to their country, because they have children. “So I would say that we should care about declining fertility, not just because it’s bad for our economy, but because we think babies are good– and we think babies are good because we’re not sociopaths. “There is just these …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire financier Ken Griffin is spending tens of millions of dollars to back Republican primary candidates across the US, but records show he has so far resisted contributing to Donald Trump — the former president leading an ideological overhaul of the GOP. Griffin’s position as an established force in Republican fundraising has sometimes put him at odds …

The Missouri Independent reports: A Clay County judge on Friday refused to reverse her order from earlier this month that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey answer questions under oath about conversations with a local official that may have violated legal ethics rules. Judge Karen Krauser ordered Bailey to sit for a deposition after it was discovered he and a deputy …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), privately told donors that running against Vice President Harris instead of President Biden made the race more challenging — an admission at odds with the Donald Trump campaign’s public projections of confidence. “All of us were hit with a little bit of a political sucker punch,” Vance said …

“She’s a member of the loon wing of the Democratic Party. The polls that I have seen, the most recent polls, you can’t just look at the top lines, Neil. “You’ve got to look at the crosstabs. And if you look at the crosstabs and really drill down and see what people think, let me say that again. “The polling …