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Nebraska state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D) on Thursday pledged to filibuster every bill on the state’s legislative agenda this session if two Republican-backed bills seeking to ban both abortion and gender-affirming health care for transgender youth are not immediately withdrawn. “If this legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children is our priority, then I am going to make it painful; painful for everyone,” Cavanaugh, one of just 17 Democrats in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature, said Thursday at the state capitol in Lincoln. “Because if you want to inflict pain upon our children, I am going to inflict pain upon this...

Text messages released as a part of the probe into former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo show a former top political adviser to then-presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sharing disparaging sentiments about Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. A text exchange uncovered by Josefa Velásquez, a senior reporter at The City, reveals that Lis Smith – a former senior adviser to Pete Buttigieg, and former girlfriend of disgraced New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer – called Blasey Ford "looney tunes," and "the height of Me Too overreach." While former presidential candidate and...

Former Democrat congressional aide Jackson Cosko is sentenced for posting the private information of five Republican senators on Wikipedia during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings; Griff Jenkins reports.

In his opening statement at Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called out the Democrats for their clownish obstruction tactics, accusing them of trying to “reverse” the 2016 presidential election by sinking President Trump’s nominee.“I’m sorry that your daughters had to endure the political circus of this morning,” Cruz told Kavanaugh as he began. Earlier, Senate Democrats refused to let the hearing proceedings begin, interrupting Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, numerous times and motioning to adjourn. Nearly two dozen Women’s March protesters were arrested for disrupting the hearing. Cruz accused the Democrats in the...

Christine Cavanaugh, who lent her distinctive voice to the title pig in "Babe," Chuckie Finster on "Rugrats" and Dexter of "Dexter's Laboratory," has died. She was 51. Cavanaugh died December 22. The death was reported in an obituary posted in the Los Angeles Times.

A priest from the Archdiocese of New York who`s accused of sexual abuse will have a secret church trial here in Erie. Monsignor Charles Kavanagh is accused of improperly touching a student in a sexual manner more than twenty years ago. The student was reportedly enrolled in a high school run by Kavanagh. Three to five Canon Law judges from the Catholic Diocese of Erie will hear the trial. The location will be determined by Bishop Donald Trautman. The proceeding was moved to Erie from New York to provide what the archdiocese there called "a more sedate environment."

I was channel surfing and found this story on UPN 50 news. Wayne County Commissioner Christopher Cavanaugh, a democrat, was arrested for being caught in a prostitution sting(He's married BTW) in Detroit(Michigan Ave and Livernois). His SUV was impounded as well.