https://empoweringfacts.com/Empowering Facts reports the political stories driving the national conversation. Named sources, real numbers, no spin.en-usFri, 04 Sep 2026 02:27:43 +0000https://empoweringfacts.com/article/transgender-women-can-no-longer-enter-womens-elite-tennis/https://empoweringfacts.com/article/transgender-women-can-no-longer-enter-womens-elite-tennis/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000The Women's Tennis Association now requires every player on tour to pass a one-time genetic sex screening before she can compete. The test looks for the SRY gene, a marker carried on the Y...https://empoweringfacts.com/article/rep-nancy-mace-slammed-the-deadlocked-massachusetts-jury-in-the/https://empoweringfacts.com/article/rep-nancy-mace-slammed-the-deadlocked-massachusetts-jury-in-the/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina criticized the jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial after jurors reported they were deadlocked. Mace said the case is about justice for the children, and...https://empoweringfacts.com/article/i-would-never-sit-across-from-him/https://empoweringfacts.com/article/i-would-never-sit-across-from-him/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Asked by CNN's Don Lemon whether he would ever sit down with President Donald Trump, LeBron James answered that he would never sit across from him, and added that he had sat across from Barack...https://empoweringfacts.com/article/drew-barrymore-spent-18-months-inside-a-psychiatric-facility/https://empoweringfacts.com/article/drew-barrymore-spent-18-months-inside-a-psychiatric-facility/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000Drew Barrymore was a working actress at seven, drinking at nine and in rehab at thirteen. She spent eighteen months at Van Nuys Psychiatric Hospital, an experience she wrote about in her 1990...https://empoweringfacts.com/article/a-man-who-just-saw-his-village-get-swept-away-from-the-nepal-flood/https://empoweringfacts.com/article/a-man-who-just-saw-his-village-get-swept-away-from-the-nepal-flood/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000At around 9:20 in the morning, a phone call reached Rajendra Dawadi, principal of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School in Nepal. A friend upriver had just watched a village get swept away by the...