June is pride month, a time to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and Trasngender Community and their struggle for equal rights. Organizers chose june as pride month to honor the 1969 stonewall riots in new york city. They were a series of uprisings by the Gay Community against police raids of the stonewall inn, a popular gay bar in greenwich village. The riots are considered the start of the modern gay rights movement. President trump marked pride month this year with a tweet celebrating lgbt rights, becoming the first republican president to acknowledge pride month. But just a month earlier his administration had effectively banned transgendered people from the military. Stacey long simmons is the director of advocacy and action at the national Lgbtq Task Force. Its so nice to have you with us. Stacey thank you, so nice to be here. Soledad thank you. Those two things are in complete contradiction so assess for me i pride month is kind of a low bar but assess for me how you would s
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by rencheds jacob issac pack, beckley united pentacostal church, beckley, West Virginia. The chaplain lord, god, we want to say thank you lord for being a part of something bigger than ourselves, thank you god for trusting us with this awesome responsibility of continuing the great traditions. We thank you lord for the heritage of sacrifice that has been passed down by those who came before us. As we endeavor to continue in that noble heritage, we ask you for your wisdom and guidance and grant unity to your people. We ask that your presence reside among the men and women here today who rise to the tasks of both leadership and service. We ask that the results of our work bring peace, prosperity and safety to all who are entrusted in our care. In the name of jesus, we pray. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause
In germany, too, four russian consulates were closed, so there were no polling stations today only two for the entire country in beaune and berlin, where the queue for the embassy stretched for several blocks. Yesterday we saw on television that in other countries there was such a queue, and it even made us happy; i have never voted since 1996. Therefore, now we need to, we need to support our country. In china, the Russian Embassy was also crowded, although voting stations were opened in several regions of the country. In addition to our embassy in beijing, it is also in shanghai, a major city on east of china. In the north and northeast in shinyang in harbin, and in the south in guangzhou special administrative region. Hong kong, in addition, onsite voting is provided for Nuclear Workers building the next Nuclear Power plant unit in china, well, in beijing , artists of the cossack choir came to the elections, they came to china on tour and the aeroflot crew, pilots and flight attenda
Welcome to prime time weekend. I am nicolle wallace. Lets get right to top stories. In a Perfect World we would not actually start the show where we are going to start it today, opening our broadcast with the results of what amounts to a legal circus, a spectacle and diversion. The ruling from Fulton County Superior Court judge scott macv was actually a victory for rule of law in the matter of the d. A. S relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade the judges ultimatum amounted to this. Either leave wade behind her help the prosecution of this case altogether. Turned out to be an easy choice for d. A. Willis to make. Remember what she said when she announced the indictment. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those who believe that results of an election are wrong, whether because of intentional wrongdoing or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. The indictme
Retired will change in the next academic year. Last year, i had this problem. Permission was obtained for primary we dont have a problem, and the full notification that we want to retire has a name in the same hour that they officially teach, and we use 24 hours to notify you, but for secondary school , its still the same number, about 12 to 14 hours. We dont have the same number and i cant do more than this at the moment. In fact, because of this, the law will allow us to register more than 700 thousand people for the arbaeen pilgrimage, according to the announcement of the central master of arbaeen, as of this morning, 725 thousand people have been registered in the sana system. The registrants were registered until this morning, according to the border of mehran and shalamcheh chose to leave the country and only 29,400 people applied for air travel during this period, the provinces of tehran, khorasan, razavi, isfahan, fars and khuzestan accounted for the largest number of registran