Delaware
First trans Congress member from Delaware hit with proposed bathroom ban
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Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride is already the target of anti-trans bias just days after Delaware voters sent her to the U.S. House.
A resolution introduced by GOP South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace would add a bathroom ban to the rules package House members will vote on next month. McBride will be the first openly transgender person to serve in Congress when she’s sworn in in January.
The bill would restrict members, staff and others from using single-sex facilities such as bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms “other than those corresponding to their biological sex.”
The ban would apply to the U.S. Capitol and House office buildings and require the House sergeant at arms to enforce it.
Conservative Republican Georgia Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene said she also supported a bathroom ban rule.
McBride did not respond Tuesday to an emailed request for comment, but wrote on social media yesterday in apparent response to Mace that “every day Americans go to work with people who have life journeys different than their own and engage with them respectfully, I hope members of Congress can muster that same kindness.”
McBride called the effort “a blatant attempt from far right-wing extremists to distract from the fact that they have no real solutions to what Americans are facing.” She said lawmakers should focus instead on issues like the cost of products and services, including housing, health care and child care.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson would not say Tuesday if he would entertain Mace’s legislation, but he did say all people would be treated with dignity and respect.
“This is an issue that Congress has never had to address before, and we’re going to do that in deliberate fashion with member consensus on it, and we will accommodate the needs of every single person,” he said. “That’s all I’m going to say about that.”
Mace told reporters Monday that McBride, who she misgendered during her comments, didn’t “belong in women’s spaces, bathrooms and locker rooms.”
Delaware
Serious crash closes I-95 northbound in Newark, Delaware
Police have shut down Interstate 95 northbound in Newark, Delaware, after a serious crash on Friday.
SkyForce10 was over the scene on Friday, November 7, 2025, and several vehicles, including a tractor-trailer, could be seen involved in this incident.
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Delaware State Police are advising travelers in the area to seek alternative routes while they investigate.
⚠️Traffic Advisory – New Castle County⚠️
I-95 northbound near the Service Area is closed due to a crash. Please seek alternate routes of travel to avoid delays. pic.twitter.com/YIDAADUwuG
— Delaware State Police (@DEStatePolice) November 7, 2025
NBC10 is working to find out if anyone was injured in this crash.
This is a developing story; check back for updates.
Delaware
Trump Judge Declines to Appoint His Pick as Delaware US Attorney
A Trump-appointed judge in Delaware has declined to appoint the president’s interim US attorney to head the office in the state on an ongoing basis.
Chief Judge Colm Connolly posted a notice dated Thursday that the US District Court for the District of Delaware “declines to exercise its authority” to appoint a US attorney for the district. Connolly notes that the term of current interim US Attorney Julianne Murray expires Nov. 11, without referring to her by name.
Connolly had signaled he didn’t intend to defer to the administration’s choice of Murray, a former Delaware GOP party chair, by soliciting …
Delaware
Kensington outreach group travels to Wilmington, Del. to look for lost homeless they helped
The City of Philadelphia has been working to clean up Kensington for several years now, but in the process, people who once lived on the streets there are moving to other cities. And, outreach groups are losing track of the people they were working to take care of.
NBC10’s Johnny Archer went out with one group, Operation Save Our City, on Wednesday night as they tried to search for missing people in Wilmington, Delaware.
“I’m trying to figure how many of my folks from Kensington ended up here,” said Rosalind Pichardo.
The outreach group said they are concerned because some of the folks who have gone missing won’t get the resources they need.
The group went to a homeless encampment in the Christina Park neighborhood of Wilmington and handed out bananas and Narcan.
“This current drug supply is so dangerous,” Pichardo said. “Other cities might not know how to deal with detox and withdrawal from this current drug supply, and if we get folks back home to deal with their condition, they have a chance to survive.”
Since the City of Philadelphia started cleaning up Kensington under Mayor Cherelle Parker’s administration, many unhoused people have left Philadelphia.
NBC10 investigators reported last month that the City of Philadelphia was buying one-way bus tickets to send unhoused people out of the city.
A program from the city that buys one-way bus tickets for Philadelphia’s unhoused population is using taxpayer money to fund it. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas looks into the reasons why.
But neighboring communities are feeling the impact.
Wilmington Mayor John Carney said his city is one of them.
“It’s just not right for these other places to send their folks to Wilmington,” Carney said last week. “The constant influx from cities and towns makes it hard for us to care for the population here. And most importantly, it’s unfair for the city residents who live in these neighborhoods.”
Pichardo said the solution to cleaning up Kensington should not be sending people some place else.
“This certainly can’t be the solution to cleaning up Kensington,” she said. “Rerouting people to other cities to make it another city’s problem.”
NBC10 reached out to Mayor Parker’s office on this issue and has not yet heard back.
Operation Save Our City said they did not find any of the people they were looking for on Wednesday night, but they will be back on Thursday to continue their search.
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