The 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships were underway in Atlanta last week, igniting a new round of heartbreak. University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas beat out an Olympic silver medalist to win an NCAA Division I title on Thursday, and is considered the “favorite” for other women’s events still to come. 

That’s hardly surprising. Until 2019, Lia went by William and ranked #462 among male swimmers in the country. Now identifying as a woman, the swimmer has broken swimming records at every turn and could soon be the best swimmer competing in the women’s division in the history of the NCAA.

Thomas has become the face of the debate over transgender athletes, but the same story is playing out all over America. Female athletes who have dedicated their lives to their sport are seeing their opportunities erased by men dominating their field. 

This is outrageous. Pitting females against males and pretending it’s still a fair competition makes a mockery of women’s sports and undermines the very reason athletics are separated by sex in the first place. Read Full Story

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Sen. Tom Cotton on Tuesday slammed President Joe Biden’s handling of the Ukraine crisis, accusing him of responding with “timidity and half measures” to Russia‘s invasion.

The Arkansas Republican’s searing criticism in an op-ed for Fox News marks a shift among some Republicans who previously rallied behind the White House but in recent days have intensified their critiques of Biden’s approach to the crisis. In the early stages of the war, Republicans purposely measured their rhetoric, directing their comments toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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A top House Republican is asking the FBI for a briefing after a special agent came forward with a disclosure about the bureau’s investigation into a pair of pipe bombs planted outside the GOP’s and Democratic Party’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., the night before the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday saying this “whistleblower disclosure” revealed that the FBI’s Washington Field Office asked FBI field offices last month to canvass all confidential human sources nationwide for relevant information. Read Full Story

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