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Destin Cramer, left, and Noah Rice place a new sticker on the door at the ceremonial opening of a gender neutral bathroom at Nathan Hale High School May 17 in Seattle. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Rush Limbaugh blasts ‘crazy’ Charlotte Observer editorial on transgender bathrooms

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

From left, four North Carolina A&T State University students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McLain, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson, sit at the all-white lunch counter of an F.W. Woolworth Co. store on Feb. 2, 1960, in Greensboro, N.C. The incident helped energize the Civil Rights movement. (Jack Moebes/Greensboro News & Record via Associated Press) ** FILE **

Clarence Henderson, civil rights activist: Stop comparing transgender bathrooms to Jim Crow

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks before the NBA all-star skills competition in Toronto on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016. (Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press via AP) ** FILE **

Senators pressure NBA to move All-Star Game from North Carolina

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Malaysia's Penal Code 187 — which punishes homosexual conduct with whippings and up to 20 years in prison — did not stop PayPal from opening a global operations center there in 2011, which the company estimated would employ 500 workers by 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

PayPal, Apple lecture North Carolina, do business in countries far more hostile to gays

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

People protest outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh on March 24, 2016. North Carolina legislators decided to rein in local governments by approving a bill Wednesday that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory later signed the legislation, which dealt a blow to the LGBT movement after success with protections in cities across the country. (Associated Press) **FILE**

PayPal pulls out of North Carolina over discrimination law

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

This March 10, 2015, file photo, shows signage outside PayPal's headquarters in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

PayPal abandons expansion plans in North Carolina over new anti-LGBT law

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

North Carolina lawmakers gather on the House floor for a special session Wednesday in Raleigh. Lawmakers voted to overturn a new Charlotte ordinance set to take effect April 1 that gives protections to transgender people to use the restroom of their gender identity. (Associated Press)

North Carolina General Assembly votes to overturn Charlotte ‘bathroom bill’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Charlotte Hornets' Nicolas Batum (5) prepares to dunk as he beats a host of Washington Wizards to the basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

Wizards squander 19-point second-quarter lead in road loss to Hornets

By Bill Kiser - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2015, file photo, Chelsea Clinton, co-chair of the Clinton Foundation, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Clinton announced Dec. 21 she is expecting a second child in the summer of 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Chelsea Clinton pregnant with second child

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Charlotte Hornets' Marvin Williams (2) reacts after making a basket against the Washington Wizards and being fouled in the second half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. The Hornets won 101-87. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Lengthy fourth-quarter scoring drought causes Wizards to stumble at Hornets

By Steve Reed - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2015, file photo, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Officer Randall &quot;Wes&quot; Kerrick sits at the defense table during his manslaughter trial in Charlotte, N.C. State attorneys on Friday, Aug. 28, 2015, decided against retrying Kerrick, who shot and killed an unarmed black man after his trial ended in a deadlock last week. (Davie Hinshaw/The Charlotte Observer via AP, Pool, File)

Randall Kerrick, white N.C. officer, won’t face retrial for shooting black man

By Gary D. Robertson and Tom Foreman Jr. - Associated Press

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Crime scene investigator C.L. Price holds a pair of shoes during day two of police officer Randall Kerrick's trial at the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. Officer Kerrick faces voluntary manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell. (Davie Hinshaw/The Charlotte Observer via AP, Pool)

Jonathan Ferrell body photo shown to jury in Charlotte police officer’s trial

By Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

The newborn baby princess, born to parents Kate Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William, is carried in a car seat by her father from The Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital, in London, Saturday, May 2, 2015. Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to their second child, a baby girl on Saturday morning. The name of the new born baby princess is not yet announced. (John Stillwell/Pool via AP)

Alice, Charlotte, Diana? Guessing game for royal baby’s name

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Former CIA director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, arrives for sentencing at the federal courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, April 23, 2015. Petraeus is expected to plead guilty to sharing top government secrets with his biographer. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

Ex-CIA chief Petraeus gets 2 years’ probation, fine for sharing military secrets with mistress

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