WASHINGTON (AP) — The House reversed itself late Wednesday and approved a measure aimed at upholding an executive order that bars discrimination against LGBT employees by federal contractors. More than 40 Republicans helped Democrats power the gay rights measure over ...

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas and 10 other states are suing the Obama administration over its directive to U.S. public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. The lawsuit announced Wednesday ...

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Civil rights laws exist for anyone victimized because of a physical characteristic they can’t control, and that’s why the U.S. Justice Department challenged a North Carolina law that blocks some legal protections for LGBT citizens, U.S. ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Republican leaders are seeking to combine separate lawsuits over a state law limiting protections for the LGBT community — moves that could help steer the cases to a judge who twice ruled against the ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Stagehand Kery Eller doesn’t own any Bruce Springsteen albums, but he would smash them if he did. Eller says he expected to earn at least $3,000 working the sold-out Springsteen concert and other high-profile shows around ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than a dozen trade associations have written North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory telling him a new law denying anti-discrimination protections is causing business to rethink locating and operating in the state. The letter from the ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A group of clergy members representing a number of denominations is planning to hold a rally at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Charlotte to call for the repeal of North Carolina’s House Bill 2. The group organizing ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — After weeks of taking a beating from critics over North Carolina’s law dictating which restrooms transgender people can use, Gov. Pat McCrory adopted a strategy long favored by Southern conservative governors: He went after the federal government. ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — With two milestone developments in the federal government’s policy on gender issues, last week was heady for transgender people and advocates. First, an impassioned Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the government was suing North Carolina for discriminating ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Nearly a dozen people were arrested in North Carolina’s Legislative Building during a second swell of demonstrations led by civic and religious leaders opposing the state’s law limiting protections for LGBT people. Police arrested 11 protesters ...

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