During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to be an LGBT-friendly president, featured an openly gay speaker on stage at the Republican convention and tweeted that he would be better on gay rights issues than Hillary Clinton. But when the nation's leading LGBT civil rights group met Saturday night for an annual dinner, a running theme for the night was that they could not imagine a president more hostile to their concerns.
Speed skater Bridie Farrell and figure skater Craig Maurizi, testifies before a Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security hearing about "Olympic abuse: The role of national governing bodies in protecting our athletes" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. less Speed skater Bridie Farrell and figure skater Craig Maurizi, testifies before a Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security hearing ... more In this March 3, 2017, photo, former competitive speedskater Bridie Farrell poses for a photo in New York.
One year ago: Congress certified Donald Trump's presidential victory over the objections of a handful of House Democrats, with Vice President Joe Biden pronouncing, "It is over." In 1919, the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, New York, at age 60. On Jan. 6, 1968, a surgical team at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California, led by Dr. Norman Shumway performed the first U.S. adult heart transplant, placing the heart of a 43-year-old man in a 54-year-old patient .
The former Olympic gold medal figure skater is expected to play the lead in an upcoming movie about Sonja Henie, a Norwegian athlete-turned-screen siren. Henie won a gold medal at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland - when was a mere 15-years-old, according to Biography.com.
'We want to fill this nation with red, white and a whole lot of blue': SNL mocks Trump's cabinet picks as Bryan Cranston resurrects Breaking Bad's Walter White to be appointed head of the DEA 'Well-mannered' 19-year-old is charged with murder after 'strangling his high school sweetheart to death in his parents' home' Successful real estate lawyer and father of two, 36, found strangled to death in his Illinois office in targeted attack Uber driver clocks 'longest ride in history' after taking customer on 400-mile trip from Virginia to New York - and it only cost $300 Clinton's policy director 'was the only one in her inner circle that had warned her she would likely lose the election but everyone ignored him' Republican John Kennedy wins Louisiana's Senate seat in run-off elections, widening the chamber's GOP majority 52 - 48 'I don't know if it's the best football, but they have spirit': ... (more)
'We want to fill this nation with red, white and a whole lot of blue': SNL mocks Trump's cabinet picks as Bryan Cranston resurrects Breaking Bad's Walter White to be appointed head of the DEA 'Well-mannered' 19-year-old is charged with murder after 'strangling his high school sweetheart to death in his parents' home' Successful real estate lawyer and father of two, 36, found strangled to death in his Illinois office in targeted attack Uber driver clocks 'longest ride in history' after taking customer on 400-mile trip from Virginia to New York - and it only cost $300 Clinton's policy director 'was the only one in her inner circle that had warned her she would likely lose the election but everyone ignored him' Republican John Kennedy wins Louisiana's Senate seat in run-off elections, widening the chamber's GOP majority 52 - 48 'I don't know if it's the best football, but they have spirit': ... (more)