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First trans Congress member from Delaware hit with proposed bathroom ban

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1 year ago

November 19, 2024

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.”

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Delaware needs to take care of littering

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8 hours ago

January 27, 2026

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Shooting in Wilmington, Delaware, leaves teen, man injured, police say

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January 26, 2026

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Shooting in Wilmington, Delaware, leaves teen, man injured, police say

Updated on: January 26, 2026 / 9:21 PM EST
/ CBS Philadelphia

A teenager and a 21-year-old man were injured in a shooting in Wilmington, Delaware, Monday afternoon, police said.

The shooting happened in the area of East 23rd and North Pine streets at around 2:30 p.m., according to Wilmington police.

The 21-year-old man was placed in critical condition at the hospital, while the 16-year-old was placed in stable condition, police said.

The shooting is under investigation.

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Delaware snow totals for Jan. 25 top out at 10 inches, says NWS

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1 day ago

January 26, 2026

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Delaware snow totals for Jan. 25 top out at 10 inches, says NWS

The Jan. 25 snowstorm was the Wilmington area’s biggest single snowfall since the January 2016 blizzard, according to the National Weather Service.

At Wilmington Airport near New Castle, 8.3 inches of snow was recorded. On Jan. 22-23, 2016, 16.1 inches fell at the airport.

The Jan. 25 daily snowfall record at the airport, set in 2000, is 10.0 inches.

The airport has recorded 15.6 inches of snowfall this snow season. The normal amount through Jan. 25 is 7.6 inches.

Here are snow totals for other places in Delaware, according to the National Weather Service and the Delaware Environmental Observing System’s Snow Monitoring Network.

New Castle County snow totals for Jan. 25

Here is the snowfall reported, with the provider in parentheses:

Bear: 10.0 inches at 11 p.m. (public)
Wilmington area: 9.0 inches at 8 p.m. (public)
Holiday Hills area, Brandywine Hundred: 8.7 inches at 9 p.m. (trained spotter)
Pike Creek: 8.5 inches at 10 p.m. (trained spotter)
New Castle County Airport: 8.3 inches at midnight (Automated Surface Observing System)
Twin Oaks, Brandywine Hundred: 8.1 inches at 8 p.m. (trained spotter)
New Castle: 8.0 inches at 6:46 p.m. (public)
Talleyville area: 8.0 inches at 3:15 p.m. (public)
Hockessin: 7.8 inches at 10:15 p.m. (trained spotter)
Newark: 7.5 inches at 6 p.m. (trained spotter)
Blackbird: 7.3 inches (DEOS)
Talley: 6.9 inches (DEOS)
Glasgow: 6.8 inches (DEOS)
Port Penn: 6.8 inches (DEOS)
Newark: 6.7 inches (DEOS)
White Clay Creek: 6.7 inches (DEOS)
Claymont: 6.3 inches (DEOS)
Greenville: 6.4 inches (DEOS)
Prices Corner: 6.3 inches (DEOS)
Hockessin: 6.2 inches (DEOS)
New Castle: 6.0 inches (DEOS)

Kent County snow totals for Jan. 25

Here is the snowfall reported, with the provider in parentheses:

Dover: 6.5 inches at 9:10 a.m. (public)
Dover Air Force Base: 6.5 inches at 11:55 a.m. (Automated Surface Observing System)
Smyrna: 6.5 inches (DEOS)
Woodside: 6.3 inches at 3 p.m. (trained spotter)
Camden: 6.0 inches at 11:38 a.m. (trained spotter)
Smyrna: 6.0 inches at 9:38 a.m. (trained spotter)
Magnolia: 5.6 inches at 1 p.m. (trained spotter)
Dover: 5.5 inches at 11 a.m. (public)
Dover: 5.4 inches (DEOS)
Harrington: 5.4 inches (DEOS)
West Dover: 5.3 inches (DEOS)
Frederica: 4.5 inches (DEOS)
Woodside: 4.5 inches (DEOS)