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Controversial transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is lashing out at the LPGA Tour after the organization announced its surprise policy change to ban most transgender athletes from competition. The women’s pro golf organization announced its policy update on Wednesday with changes including a ban on any trans player who “transitioned” from male to female after puberty. The new rule would affect the largest number of transgender golfers because few transgenders undergo transitions before puberty. Davidson has been campaigning to obtain an LPGA pro card since 2021 and had been steadily racking up victories on the NXXT Tour until that organization paused...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz blamed Republican leaders Tuesday for his party's failing strategy to overturn President Barack Obama's immigration actions, arguing that if they had listened to him and more forcefully confronted Obama they would be succeeding. Speaking to a few reporters in the Capitol outside a Senate GOP lunch meeting, the Texas Republican said party leaders gave "away virtually all of our leverage" by funding most of the government through September, and didn't adopt his plan to grind nearly all nominations to a halt unless Obama surrendered. Cruz said he warned all along that that was "a strategy...