Nevada state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, who publicly declared that he's gay for the first time during a hearing this week where lawmakers voted to repeal the state's ban on gay marriage.
Tennessee state Rep. Micah Van Huss, a Republican who took to Facebook after the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va., to "let my constituents know where I stand." The Confederate flag, he wrote, is "a symbol of freedom."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, criticizing President Trump's remarks on Tuesday about the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Va. Trump placed blame for the violence on both sides, suggested that creating more jobs will eliminate racism and defended white supremacists' cause against the removal of Confederate monuments.
Texas state Rep. Chris Turner, a Democrat, speaking in opposition of a bill that will require women to pay an extra health insurance premium for nonemergency abortions. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed the legislation on Tuesday.
De'Andre Harris, on being chased and beat with wooden poles by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Harris, who was there to counterprotest the neo-Nazi groups, said a police officer finally came to his aid after five or six minutes. The city's police is under fire for
Tiana Nobile, who initially wasn't allowed to get married because she had her citizenship paperwork, passport and driver’s license but no birth certificate. A Louisiana judge, however, recently struck down a state law requiring birth certificates in order to issue a marriage license.
President Trump on Thursday, after his opioid commission, led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, urged him to declare the drug crisis a national emergency.