Plus: ‘We Are Under Siege,’ Border County Sheriff Tells House Republicans as Democrats Skip Hearing
March 16 2023
Good morning from Washington, where House Democrats stay behind as Republican colleagues travel to Texas to see what’s going on at the southern border. Virginia Allen reports on the field hearing. Women don’t exist for some medical students, and that’s too much for one professor, Tyler O’Neil writes. On the podcast, find out what’s wrong with the process known as ranked-choice voting. Plus: Florida brings more voter fraud cases; North Korea behaves badly again; and “Problematic Women” ponders the presence of boys in girls basketball. On this date in 1945, in a key victory of World War II, the U.S. military declares the Pacific island of Iwo Jima secured after Marines fight fiercely for weeks against Japanese defenders.
A lesson at the Indiana School of Medicine laments that “most textbooks present sex as binary” and advocates for “anatomy texts to discuss sex on a spectrum.”
Kinney County, Texas, is “under siege by illegal aliens and smugglers,” Sheriff Brad Coe tells a field hearing held by Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Florida continues a crackdown on election-related crime, announcing the arrests of two more individuals on charges of casting illegal votes in last year’s election.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un again may go on a missile-launching binge and initiate extensive drills of conventional forces near the demilitarized zone.
Sophie Lehman, formerly Contra Costa County’s manager of election operations, became the point of contact for what would be a $2 million election grant for the California county.
Allies of former President Donald Trump accuse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of violating ethics and election laws through a “shadow presidential campaign,” according to a 15-page complaint.
A Christian school’s girls basketball team is banned from competing in future tournaments after forfeiting a game against a team with a male student who claims to be transgender.
