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WASHINGTON — The incoming Congress brings a new cast of characters to Capitol Hill for the second Donald Trump administration as Republicans officially take control of both chambers on Friday. Here are 11 key House members to watch in the 119th Congress. And he’s hungry for a bigger role in the second Trump era. Golden has been known to criticize his party and break with his fellow Democrats on key votes. McBride will make history as the first openly transgender member of Congress, and she became a top GOP target even before taking office.

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Overall, 150 women will serve on Capitol Hill in the new Congress, down from the record of 152 set in 2024. Partisan differences are more revealing: Democratic women in Congress overall and in the US House are setting new records, despite their party losing both chambers. Still, even as a percentage of total House candidates, women were down from 2022, with Republicans taking the steepest percentage hit. But her early conversations with another female Republican lawmaker – Oklahoma Rep. Stephanie Bice – were influential before she even decided to run. Several Republican women, however, are in position to chair committees in the Senate, including Maine’s Susan Collins atop the powerful Appropriations Committee.

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☆ Former students say a California school district 'ignored and concealed' sexual abuse
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

Three former students have filed suit, saying a SoCal school district failed to protect them from "rampant" sexual abuse. AdvertisementA group of sexual abuse survivors have filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court, saying their high school district failed to protect them from predatory teachers for years. Administrators failed to properly supervise employees, the lawsuit claims, and repeatedly "ignored and concealed the sexual abuse of minor students." "It's about protecting the interests of the school district over protecting children." After leaving a job as PE teacher in the Lake Washington School District outside of Seattle, Scott Nelson was coaching basketball in the Issaquah school district.

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☆ An American Airlines pilot launched a $23.5 million lawsuit, claiming airport staff racially profiled him after he failed to wear a mask
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

He says he was racially profiled by security officers at Spokane International Airport. An American Airlines pilot is suing Spokane International Airport in Washington state, as well as three security officers over a 2021 incident which saw him indefinitely suspended without pay. Bahig Saliba filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court on August 1, seeking over $23.5 million in damages. The pilot says that one of the security officers stood "in a threatening posture," and the defendants berated him while not listening to his attempts to explain the exemption. American Airlines and Spokane International Airport did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, sent outside US working hours.

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WASHINGTON — The 2022 midterm elections were full of surprises. Republicans began the year favored to notch big victories, yet they fell short and barely captured control of the House. Lake was widely seen as the election-denying candidate with the best chance to win a statewide race in a key battleground in the 2022 elections. Secretary of state contenders who echoed Trump’s fabricated claims of a stolen election lost, including Mark Finchem in Arizona, Kristina Karamo in Michigan and Jim Marchant in Nevada. Their wins led Democrats to win every competitive House race and gain control of the state House for the first time in more than a decade — although recent vacancies have called that majority into question.

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