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Texas House Speaker Joe Straus NewsGender, Politics - U.S. Wed Aug 16, 2017 - 5:09 pm EST bathroom policy , greg abbott , joe straus , texas , texas legislature August 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Texas Privacy Act (SB3) — designed to keep biological men out of women’s public restrooms and locker rooms in the state — likely will not become law this year. Its main Republican opponent , House Speaker Joe Straus , suddenly ended the Special Session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to pass it and other conservative bills. Strauss, an ally of pro- LGBT big business interests , reportedly overrode the procedural objections of conservative House members in abruptly closing down the 30- day Special Session late Tuesday , more than a day early. “The reports are true: Many members were loudly objecting/calling for a [recorded] vote on Sine Die Motion [permanent adjournment] & were intentionally ignored,” tweeted conservative State Rep . Jeff Leach. Gov. Abbott slammed the House and Straus fo...

With prospects for transgender bathroom limits getting slimmer by the day in the Legislature, opponents kept pressing the gas pedal Tuesday , holding the latest in a series of Capitol events meant to showcase broad disapproval of the most contentious item on a special session agenda filled with hot-button issues. First, dozens of women business and community leaders from across Texas stood on the Capitol’s south steps to say they don’t feel threatened by sharing restrooms with transgender women and don’t appreciate “discriminatory” policies being made in their name. Then officials from the influential Texas Travel Industry Association abandoned months of quiet opposition, telling Gov. Greg Abbott that his effort to limit transgender-friendly bathrooms is smearing the state’s reputation and endangering hundreds of small businesses. “As an industry that depends on a healthy and welcoming Texas brand , these types of public policies are … potentially catastrophic,” David Teel, pres...

By Madison Park, CNN (CNN) -- A controversial bill that would require people to use school restrooms and facilities that match the sex on their birth certificates has died in the Texas Legislature . The so- called bathroom bill , which transgender advocates and major Texas companies had opposed, failed to make it out of the House on Tuesday, the last day of the state's special legislative session . Senate Bill 3 had passed the state Senate earlier during the special session . The potential legislation had divided Texas Republican lawmakers , pitting ardent supporter Lt . Gov. Dan Patrick in opposition to House Speaker Joe Straus . Moderate voices said Texas would face the same backlash North Carolina did last year when it passed a similar but broader bill. North Carolina lawmakers repealed the bill in March after business groups, athletic organizations and entertainers condemned it. "We hope that this time, this issue remains settled : Texans don't want harmful, anti-t...

In our new series Pregnancy Diaries , we ask expecting women to jot down every pregnancy-related detail of their lives for a week. (Special thanks to New York mag and Refinery29 for the inspo.) Work-related conundrums, struggles with IVF, and a whole lot of nausea, ahead. For our eighth entry, we have a 33-year-old part-time publicist from Connecticut who’s 25 weeks along. She and her husband of almost eight years have a “spirited” two-and-a-half-year-old girl, and don’t know the sex of baby number two.  How long did it take you to conceive?  It took just a couple of months to conceive baby #2. My cycle has tended to fluctuate month-to-month since having my daughter, so it was a bit of a challenge to track accurately. We’ve been incredibly fortunate and have not experienced any fertility issues to-date. Any other details relevant to your pregnancy? Our daughter was born three weeks and one day early, and I gave birth less than three hours after my water broke. This is known as precipit...

By Michael Bahtiarian Special for the Armenian Weekly  FRANKLIN, Mass. (A.W.)—On a recent hot Sunday afternoon , Camp Haiastan held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its long- awaited facilities expansion : the new shower, bathroom, and washstand building. The ribbon cutting marked the completion of a five-year Expand & Renew project that cost over one million dollars and resulted in the renewal of nearly all of the Camp’s water and septic infrastructure . The ribbon cutters were the upcoming generation, current campers and staff members who are related to the principal contributors to the Expand and Renew project. (Photo: Garo Lachinian) The new building includes bathrooms and showers for boys and girls. It replaces three other buildings, which were at least 50 years old. It is the largest, most expensive, and complicated project in the Camp’s 66-year history. The ribbon- cutting ceremony began at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and drew more than 150 spectators. Camp Haiastan Exec...

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening, everyone. The program is called NEWSNIGHT, though tonight it may seem a little more like lifestyles of the celebrities and the sub-lebrities, the famous and the infamous. When we looked at what we are covering tonight, we realized we are dealing with a pretty eclectic group of characters. We'll talk about the threat of cyber-terrorism, a big story today , with the man once known as America's most wanted computer outlaw , former hacker, convicted hacker , Kevin Mitnick. We'll look back at someone more famous than infamous, John Entwistle , bassist for The Who, the quiet one -- not hard when you're playing next to Pete Townshend. He was found dead today in Las Vegas, a day before The Who was to start touring. We'll also meet someone who's not exactly ...