×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×its first out transgender official on Tuesday, a victory civil rights groups said would help bolster representation and political power for LGBTQ Americans. won her bid for the Wheeling City Council on Tuesday and . When she assumes her role on July 1, Ketchum will be officials in the state to hold public office. Advertisement“I’m incredibly excited and grateful. I know this was a close race,” Ketchum The Wheeling News-Register on Tuesday, noting that while she didn’t campaign on her identity, the win “matters...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×its first out transgender official on Tuesday, a victory civil rights groups said would help bolster representation and political power for LGBTQ Americans. won her bid for the Wheeling City Council on Tuesday and . When she assumes her role on July 1, Ketchum will be officials in the state to hold public office. Advertisement“I’m incredibly excited and grateful. I know this was a close race,” Ketchum The Wheeling News-Register on Tuesday, noting that while she didn’t campaign on her identity, the win “matters...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Rep. (D-Minn.) said Monday that her father had died from complications of the .“It is with tremendous sadness and pain that I share that my father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passed away today due to complications from COVID-19,” Omar said in a statement obtained by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him.”Advertisement“My family and I ask for your respect and privacy during this time,” she said.Rep. Ilhan Omar says her father has died of COVID-19 complications....…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Rep. (D-Minn.) said Monday that her father had died from complications of the .“It is with tremendous sadness and pain that I share that my father, Nur Omar Mohamed, passed away today due to complications from COVID-19,” Omar said in a statement obtained by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “No words can describe what he meant to me and all who knew him.”Advertisement“My family and I ask for your respect and privacy during this time,” she said.Rep. Ilhan Omar says her father has died of COVID-19 complications....WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President announced a crackdown on nationwide anti-racism protests in a surreal speech Monday from the White House Rose Garden while police flash-bang explosions could be heard nearby. Speaking as police deployed tear gas on protesters just outside the White House, Trump vowed harsher action against protesters. The president made no mention of violent actions taken by police in recent days against protesters, nor did he make any call for national unity. Instead, he said he would mobilize “all available federal...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President announced a crackdown on nationwide anti-racism protests in a surreal speech Monday from the White House Rose Garden while police flash-bang explosions could be heard nearby. Speaking as police deployed tear gas on protesters just outside the White House, Trump vowed harsher action against protesters. The president made no mention of violent actions taken by police in recent days against protesters, nor did he make any call for national unity. Instead, he said he would mobilize “all available federal...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×A federal judge ruled Sunday that hundreds of thousands of ex-felons in Florida owed to the state before they cast a ballot, saying a Republican-backed law passed last year effectively created a “pay-to-vote system.”Florida in 2018 that restored the voting rights to nearly every felon who had completed “all terms” of their sentences, a victory hailed by voting rights advocates at the time. But in 2019, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill that said the “all terms” provision was only met if all...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×A federal judge ruled Sunday that hundreds of thousands of ex-felons in Florida owed to the state before they cast a ballot, saying a Republican-backed law passed last year effectively created a “pay-to-vote system.”Florida in 2018 that restored the voting rights to nearly every felon who had completed “all terms” of their sentences, a victory hailed by voting rights advocates at the time. But in 2019, the Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill that said the “all terms” provision was only met if all...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The American Civil Liberties Union and Black Lives Matter for what the groups called an “unconstitutional” and “frankly criminal attack” on protesters outside the White House earlier this week.The federal lawsuit, filed on behalf of five demonstrators, comes after law enforcement used gas canisters and flash-bang grenades to gathered in Lafayette Square on Monday to protest the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd on May 25.AdvertisementMoments later, President strode to the nearby St. John’s Church for...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The American Civil Liberties Union and Black Lives Matter for what the groups called an “unconstitutional” and “frankly criminal attack” on protesters outside the White House earlier this week.The federal lawsuit, filed on behalf of five demonstrators, comes after law enforcement used gas canisters and flash-bang grenades to gathered in Lafayette Square on Monday to protest the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd on May 25.AdvertisementMoments later, President strode to the nearby St. John’s Church for...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President canceled events in Nevada and Colorado later this week amid growing concerns about COVID-19, the novel coronavirus illness declared a pandemic on Wednesday.“Out of an abundance of caution from the Coronavirus outbreak, the President has decided to cancel his upcoming events in Colorado and Nevada,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. He was scheduled to speak at a Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas this weekend and stop in Denver as well, The Hill...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President canceled events in Nevada and Colorado later this week amid growing concerns about COVID-19, the novel coronavirus illness declared a pandemic on Wednesday.“Out of an abundance of caution from the Coronavirus outbreak, the President has decided to cancel his upcoming events in Colorado and Nevada,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement. He was scheduled to speak at a Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas this weekend and stop in Denver as well, The Hill...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Federal investigators seized a cellphone belonging to Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in connection with their probe into a series of stock trades he made as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread around the country, according to the and .Agents served a search warrant at Burr’s home in the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday night, and he turned over the device, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news.AdvertisementBurr, the powerful Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Federal investigators seized a cellphone belonging to Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) in connection with their probe into a series of stock trades he made as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread around the country, according to the and .Agents served a search warrant at Burr’s home in the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday night, and he turned over the device, according to the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the news.AdvertisementBurr, the powerful Republican chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee,...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.The Trump administration on Thursday rejected assertions that White House adviser ’s 97-year-old grandmother had died of the after his uncle reported earlier this month that she had fallen victim to COVID-19.Thursday that Miller’s uncle David Glosser was “angry and outraged” at President ’s “lack of response” to the crisis, which has left more than 140,000 people dead in the United States and...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.The Trump administration on Thursday rejected assertions that White House adviser ’s 97-year-old grandmother had died of the after his uncle reported earlier this month that she had fallen victim to COVID-19.Thursday that Miller’s uncle David Glosser was “angry and outraged” at President ’s “lack of response” to the crisis, which has left more than 140,000 people dead in the United States and...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Former Vice President and former Secretary of State lambasted the ’s response to the pandemic on Monday, saying the president lacked empathy and had failed the American people as cases of COVID-19 surge around the nation. The pair both appeared for interviews on Joy Reid’s debut news program on , “The ReidOut,” on Monday to discuss President ’s ongoing response to the coronavirus. Both had harsh appraisals of the federal response amid reports that cases have in a majority of the U.S. and that the White House...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Former Vice President and former Secretary of State lambasted the ’s response to the pandemic on Monday, saying the president lacked empathy and had failed the American people as cases of COVID-19 surge around the nation. The pair both appeared for interviews on Joy Reid’s debut news program on , “The ReidOut,” on Monday to discuss President ’s ongoing response to the coronavirus. Both had harsh appraisals of the federal response amid reports that cases have in a majority of the U.S. and that the White House...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a bill to change the state flag on Tuesday, effectively ending the most prominent display of the Confederate battle emblem in the country.Mississippi’s state flag has sparked controversy for decades for prominently displaying the Confederate symbol, which has long been associated with America’s racist history. Backlash against the flag and other tributes to the Confederacy has grown in recent weeks as people protest racial injustice and police brutality across the...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a bill to change the state flag on Tuesday, effectively ending the most prominent display of the Confederate battle emblem in the country.Mississippi’s state flag has sparked controversy for decades for prominently displaying the Confederate symbol, which has long been associated with America’s racist history. Backlash against the flag and other tributes to the Confederacy has grown in recent weeks as people protest racial injustice and police brutality across the...WW…