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  • Three Republican women pushed to release the Epstein files. None will be in Congress next year.
    Last year, three Republican women lawmakers broke with their party and risked incurring the wrath of the White House by pushing to release the files connected to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  None will be in Congress next year.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, formerly a MAGA acolyte, resigned her seat...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-13
  • Most trans people who started hormones as teens say it was the right decision, study finds
    A new study finds high satisfaction among transgender people who were prescribed hormone therapy in their youth, providing an important window into healthcare that has become increasingly politicized and banned across the country.  The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, surveyed 376 trans people who had all previously received gender-affirming care at the same unidentified clinic, which...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-13
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    How Asian Americans helped swing the South
    The tote bags were designed with three women printed on one side, dressed to represent East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian women. Above them, the letters “A.B.G” were printed in red and below them the words, “Asian Ballot Girl” — a play on the Three Ladies brand of rice and the “Asian Baby Girl” aesthetic familiar in Asian-American spaces...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-13
  • Kansas will have back-to-back women governors after Democrat Cindy Holscher wins tight race
    Democrat Cindy Holscher is projected to become the next governor of Kansas, marking the first time the state will have two women governors back-to-back, according to Decision Desk HQ.  In addition to the governorship, Democrats will also hold a Senate seat in Kansas — the first time that’s happened since the 1930s — as the blue wave...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-12
  • Moms feared what the midterms would mean for their disabled daughters. Then came some hope.
    Yasmin Halim approached this year’s midterms with “a sense of dread.” On election night, the 44-year-old went to bed early after Republicans won the major statewide races in Florida, where she lives with her family. Her 13-year-old daughter, Lily, is dying from a neurodegenerative condition called juvenile Tay-Sachs disease, and Halim works full-time caring for her. That sense of dread...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-12
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    Could Texas reverse course on abortion? Democrats think there’s an opening
    After capturing control of key leadership positions, Texas Democrats intend to push for a repeal of the state’s near-total abortion ban, which has been linked to the death of multiple women.  Texas, the largest state in the country to have banned abortion, has for years functioned as a laboratory for some of the nation’s most novel anti-abortion...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-12
  • Democrat Scott Colom ousts Cindy Hyde-Smith to be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since 1881
    Democrat Scott Colom’s bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi was dismissed as improbable — a long-shot effort standing up against the weight of political history that has shut Black people out of statewide representation for generations. While Mississippi was the first in the country to send a Black person to the U.S. Senate, the state has not had...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-11
  • Lawsuit quickly follows Washington ballot measure on trans sports participation
    A coalition of parents, educators and nonprofit organizations sued the state of Washington late Monday over a recently passed ballot initiative banning transgender girls from competing on girls’ K-12 sports teams, arguing that the measure, which is set to take effect next month, conflicts with the state’s own constitution.Washington voters approved the initiative, IL26-638, in last week’s midterms with...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-10
  • Cornell University is embroiled in another sexual assault lawsuit
    This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. Jane Doe is not the only recent student to pursue legal action against Cornell University over its handling of sexual assault on campus, New York Focus has learned. Two female...Read more
    Source: The 19th News Published on: 2026-11-10

  • 5 fair ways to split bills with a partner: Here’s the math
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    Five fair ways to split bills with a partner are an equal 50/50 split, a split by income share, an equal-leftover split, pooling everything with equal allowances and a category split that credits unpaid work. Each is fair in a different way, so the right choice depends on your incomes...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Texans RB David Montgomery out in Week 10: Who starts?
    The Houston Texans ruled out running back David Montgomery for Sunday’s Week 10 game at the Cleveland Browns because of a groin injury. Today, he was downgraded from questionable, even though he practiced fully Friday. It will be his fourth straight missed game. What happened to Montgomery’s status? Montgomery returned...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Usher’s $1.7M loan turns into a yearlong court war
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    Usher is asking a Fulton County judge to sanction an Atlanta lawyer and rule against him in their fight over a $700,000 loan the singer says was never repaid. In a Nov. 9 filing in Fulton County Superior Court, Usher’s lawyers accused attorney Alcide Honoré of dodging a court order...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Four men arrested after high-speed chase on I-94 in Wisconsin
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    Four men are in custody after a high-speed pursuit that began in Lake Hallie and ended near a Menomonie rest area on Interstate 94 on Friday evening, Nov. 13, according to the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office. The men, all in their early 20s and from Florida, were taken to the...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Dr. Jamila K. Stockman reveals how abuse fuels HIV risk
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    Dr. Jamila K. Stockman has spent two decades studying how intimate partner violence and HIV intersect in women’s lives. An epidemiologist trained at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Director of the iSTRIVE Research Lab...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Katt Williams spills wild stories on Ice Cube’s podcast
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    Katt Williams says he will not appear in Last Friday if Faizon Love is in the cast. The comedian made the declaration on the Friday, Nov. 13, episode of Listen & Laugh, the new podcast from Ice Cube and Mike Epps. By the end of the episode, though, he had...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Riverside shooting: Suspect dead after Baltimore barricade
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    A suspect is dead and a 36-year-old man was hospitalized after a shooting and barricade in Baltimore’s Riverside neighborhood late Friday, Nov. 13, police said. The incident remains under investigation. What happened? Officers were called at 10:52 p.m. to a home in the 500 block of Clement Street, near Digital...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14
  • Garnett, Bogues, Westbrook, and Lowry take their place in basketball immortality
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    A jersey looks different from forty feet below. Up in the rafters, it quits being laundry and turns into a landmark, the thing parents point to while trying to explain to their kids what this building used to sound like. Over seven weeks this winter, four NBA cities will raise...Read more
    Source: Rolling Out Date: 2026-11-14




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