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I Was Shocked When My Daughter Wanted To Compete In The Olympics. The author and her daughter Gwen after a University of Wisconsin track meet. Gwen's bike setup in the transition zone at the London 2011 World Championships. One year later, USA Triathlon scheduled Gwen’s first top-level race in Europe. For my daughter, Olympic gold or not, Gwen’s decision was right for her.
A selection of the new films that premiered at Cannes in 2025 A24/Mubi/Apple/FocusSomething that’s always guaranteed to make headlines at the Cannes Film Festival (besides the star-studded red carpets) is those seemingly never-ending standing ovations. Length of standing ovation: Six minutesWhat the critics are saying? Length of standing ovation: Between five and seven minutes (sparking an emotional response in its lead actor, Joaquin Phoenix). Length of standing ovation: Seven minutesWhat the critics are saying? Length of standing ovation: Between six and eight minutesWhat the critics are saying?
https:// www.huffpost.com/entry/house-passes-big-beautiful-bill_n_682e8f05e4b05418243c08a9?origin=related-recircOne of the GOP Congress Members who voted for this draconian legislation that Democrats strongly opposed was Rep. Juan Ciscomani. Second-term GOP Congress Member Juan Ciscomani (42) currently represents Arizona’s 6th Congressional District (CD). From 2015-2022, Ciscomani served as senior adviser to AZ GOP Governor Doug Ducey. Ciscomani a “moderate.” Some “moderate.” I guess it’s because he tries not to talk in Donald’s incendiary style. In Congress, Ciscomani voted in favor of a bill that would have prohibited mail delivery of abortion medication.
When narcissistic control seeps into leadership, it distorts truth, erodes trust and destabilizes institutions. AdvertisementAs a clinical psychologist who works with trauma and narcissistic abuse, I see echoes of this dynamic every day in my therapy office. Narcissistic control in government thrives on flipping the script and silencing watchdogs. Narcissistic abuse isn’t just dangerous and dysregulating — it feeds on the very distress and isolation it creates to sustain itself. Support HuffPost Already contributed?
Federal workers receive retirement benefits through what’s known as the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS. The GOP measure would force new federal employees to pay a whopping 5% surcharge — bringing their FERS contribution to 9.4% of their pay — unless they agree to become an “at-will” employee. And therefore the budget savings from the measure — that is, the whole reason it’s supposedly in a tax bill — would end up being quite small. While it may be tucked into a tax package, the policy fits neatly into the Trump administration’s broader attacks on federal workers and labor groups. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is one of the few Republicans who’ve openly pushed back against Trump’s attacks on federal employees.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGBOSTON, May 22 (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to reinstate more than 1,300 U.S. Department of Education employees whom Democratic-led states argued were being terminated en masse as part of an effort to dismantle the agency. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston issued an injunction blocking the administration from moving forward with a mass layoff that would leave the Education Department with about half as many employees as it had when the Republican president took office in January. Advertisement“The record abundantly reveals that defendants’ true intention is to effectively dismantle the department without an authorizing statute,” Joun, an appointee of Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, wrote. The Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The ruling came in a pair of lawsuits by Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia, several school districts and teachers’ unions who argued the terminations would unlawfully gut the department.
Not all that long ago, children like Claire would have grown up in cold, sterile institutions instead of at home with their families. Moreover, Republicans aren’t even pretending that any of these cuts — these deaths, these lives shattered — will reduce the deficit. ADVERTISEMENTBooker, Jeffries and Clark all vowed to bring the stories of Claire, Xiomara and other disabled children back to their Republican colleagues. Once again, in the middle of the night, House Republicans met while most Americans slept. Jamie Davis Smith is a writer, attorney and mother of four who lives in Washington, D.C.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — Republicans pushed President Donald Trump’s signature tax and spending cut legislation through the House of Representatives after making several last-minute changes to the bill. The House passage of the legislation is a major win for Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La. ), who had to placate conservatives wanting steeper spending cuts as well as moderates seeking a bigger tax deduction for wealthy homeowners. But the bill’s fate remain uncertain, since a number of Senate Republicans have signaled they will not accept the House approach to either the tax cuts or the spending cuts, which would result in an estimated 8 million fewer Americans having health insurance, mostly because of cuts to Medicaid. The bill extends tax cuts Trump enacted in his first term that are set to expire at the end of the year and adds tax breaks on tips and overtime that Trump championed during last year’s presidential campaign.
What I see so often in my work coaching women (and a few men) is something called coercive control. ADVERTISEMENTAs a coercive control survivor myself, I know how it creeps up on you. Instead, coercive control victims start out in tepid, even balmy, water. That’s why it takes abuse victims seven times on average before they escape for good. ADVERTISEMENTCriminal Behavioral Analyst Laura Richards is a coercive control expert and advocate who has given evidence that has led to coercive control law reform in the U.K., U.S. and Australia.Shebelieves Diddy’s defense will try to muddy the waters by painting Cassie as complicit.
Additionally, sitting still is an advanced balancing skill for which young children are not yet developmentally equipped. But here are three compelling reasons why more play in early education can help reduce the prevalence of challenging behaviors. Since there’s to be no intervention from an outside source, self-regulation can’t be “taught” by insisting that children sit still or be quiet. The children learn to become tolerant of others’ ideas and to accept the similarities and differences of other children. When we understand that challenging behaviors are on the increase precisely because young children have almost no time to play, we will recognize that a play-based curriculum not only results in fewer behavior challenges but is also the only acceptable curriculum for young children.
LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are moving forward with trying to pass President Donald Trump’s ambitious policy package, with a final vote as soon as the wee hours of Thursday. As soon as Republicans tried to begin House debate on the rule, Democrats forced a vote on adjourning the chamber, an effort to drag out the clock. Part of the strategy by Republican leaders is to use the vote itself to pressure holdouts into caving and supporting the bill. AdvertisementSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and President Donald Trump arrive for a House Republican conference meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 — we can't do this without you.
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'Extremely Dishonest': CNN Fact-Checker Nails Trump On 13 'Flat False' ClaimsDaniel Dale said the president's speech before a joint session of Congress was filled with falsehoods. ...by the standard of any politician in Washington who is not Donald Trump, that was still an extremely dishonest speech,” he said. Some of Trump’s 2025 false claims were about consequential policy matters, others about trivial personal fixations. Falsely claimed Ukraine started the war with Russia, saying, “You should’ve never started it. It is true that Germany temporarily revived some idled coal plants after Russia slashed natural gas exports following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but those plants were taken offline again in 2024.
