Joe Biden - Unions disagree over Biden's Labor secretary pick

Eleanor Mueller, Megan Cassella

Politico

 Marriott hotel strike

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California - 'We all heard him': Bay Area transgender community reacts after being acknowledged in Joe Biden's victory speech

 Press

ABC7

San Francisco, CA

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lead story - Transgender people to gain inheritance rights in Bangladesh

 Press

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Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Joe Biden - Trump says for the first time Biden won the election but later insists he's not conceding

Maegan Vazquez, Sarah Westwood, Alison Main

CNN

the blowhard speaks (finally)

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Vermont - Taylor Small wins House seat to become first openly transgender member of Vermont Legislature

Brent Hallenbeck

Burlington Free Press

Winooski, VT

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lead story - West Virginia sued over transgender discrimination

Jessica Patterson

WOWK

Charleston, WV

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Joe Biden - Biden considers Angus King for top intelligence post

Natasha Bertrand, Lara Seligman

Politico

Sen. Angus King (I-ME)

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Connecticut - Fed Trans Athletes Fight Officially Over

Emily Hays

New Haven Independent

New Haven, CT

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lead story - As Transgender Awareness Week rolls out, young trans people have a powerful message: We are thriving

Susan Miller

USA Today

Washington DC

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Joe Biden - Trump campaign drops Arizona lawsuit requesting review of ballots

Kara Scannell

CNN

Saguaro cactus flowers (Carnegiea gigantea)

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Rhode Island - House LGBTQ Caucus endorses Cicilline for assistant speaker

Patrick Anderson

Providence Journal

US Rep. David Cicilline

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lead story - Egyptian Transgender Woman Faces Uphill Battle Against Stigma

Hanaa Habib

US News & World Report

Cairo, Egypt

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Joe Biden - Top Senate Republicans say Biden should get presidential intel briefings

Marianne Levine, Andrew Desiderio

Politico

US Senate

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Montana - Snapshots of UM’s first virtual DiverseU

 Andy Tallman, Hanna Campbell, Jacob Owens, and more

Montana Kaiman

Missoula, MT

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lead story - Fugitive arrested in grisly slaying of Philadelphia transgender woman

 Dan Avery

NBC News

Philadelphia, PA

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Joe Biden - Joe Biden's win grows more decisive each day as votes are counted

Harry Enten

CNN

Landslide!

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lead news - Lawsuit challenging arrest of NYC transgender woman settled

Tom Hays

ABC News

New York City, NY

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Joe Biden - Op-Ed: Good luck, President-elect Biden. You’ll need it.

Al Franken

Los Angeles Times

Al Franken

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North Carolina - The Transparency Project amplifies transgender artists

Katie Murawski

Yes Weekly

Greensboro, NC

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lead story - Biden name-checks gay and transgender Americans in victory speech

Chris Johnson

Washington Blade

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Joe Biden - Betting on the best of America

Maria Cardona

The Hill

Las Vegas, NV

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Montana - 'Equal' docuseries on HBO: Who was Jack Starr? Transgender man held multiple times for offending 1920s 'gender code'

 Neetha K

meaww.com

Bozeman, MT (1875)

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