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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas version of a North Carolina -style "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people again sputtered out. Chances of any last- minute deals extinguished when the House adjourned for good late Tuesday in a special legislative session , and although Republican Gov . Greg Abbott could order lawmakers to stay in Austin and try again, he would politically risk a third failed attempt with the rest of the country watching. Fortune 500 companies, police and sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA, have spent the year putting considerable public pressure on Texas to abandon the effort. But Abbott and other powerful Republicans have continued pushing to make Texas the first state to follow North Carolina and impose bathroom restrictions on transgender people in schools and public spaces. They've now failed twice, and in doing so, are dealing a rare loss to social conservatives who are used to getting their way in Texas. Here's how the bill came un...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas version of a North Carolina -style "bathroom bill" targeting transgender people again sputtered out Tuesday, leaving Republican Gov . Greg Abbott with little path forward this year over what became one of the most divisive measures in any U.S. legislature. Chances of any last- minute deals extinguished when the House adjourned for good in a special legislative session , and although Abbott could order lawmakers to stay in Austin and try again, he would politically risk a third failed attempt with the rest of the country watching. Fortune 500 companies, police and sports leagues, including the NFL and NBA, have spent the year putting considerable public pressure on Texas to abandon the effort. But Abbott and other powerful Republicans have continued pushing to make Texas the first state to follow North Carolina and impose bathroom restrictions on transgender people in schools and public spaces. They're now set to fail twice, and in do...

Donald Trump might display the sort of casual sexism that would make a 1970s television host blush , yet he has a remarkably loyal and close-knit network of ladies around him, from Trump women Ivanka and Tiffany and third wife Melania to his 28-year-old interim Communications Director Hope Hicks . These women insist the image of Trump as the male chauvinist who greeted France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron with the words, ‘You’re in such good shape’ is all wrong. Trump himself says he ‘loves women’ and even claims he spent his pre- Presidential career as a feminist champion . ‘I was the one that really broke the glass ceiling on behalf of women, more than anybody in the construction industry’ he has said. Women who have worked for Trump paint a mixed picture of their former boss. ‘I heard him yell and scream, but I never heard him call anyone a bimbo. I never heard him demean anyone’, former Trump employee Joanne Blank told CBS News last year. But other ex Trump staff members told o...