Award season is in full swing and the thirtieth annual critics are there!

The event with stars took place on Friday, February seventh, within the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.

From “Wicked” Starlet Cynthia Erivo to Angelina Jolie and “Buffy” Alum Sarah Michelle Gellar got here Hollywood's elite for the award ceremony, who honored one of the best of filmmaking and tv in 2024.

Today is Thursday, August 29, the 242nd day of the yr 2024. There are 124 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate John McCain named Sarah Palin, a conservative outsider who had served as governor of Alaska for lower than two years, as his running mate.

Also on this date:

In 1814, through the War of 1812, Alexandria, Virginia, officially surrendered to British forces, who occupied town until September 3.

In 1862, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing began operations on the U.S. Treasury Department.

In 1944, 15,000 American soldiers of the twenty eighth Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris because the French capital continued to have a good time its liberation from the Nazis.

In 1958, the US Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

In 1966, the Beatles ended their fourth American tour with their last public concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

In 2004, marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima was attacked by a spectator through the Olympic Marathon in Athens. De Lima, who was leading the race on the time, eventually finished third and was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal for Sportsmanship along with his bronze medal.

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana, breaching levees and triggering flooding that devastated New Orleans. Katrina was the most costly storm in U.S. history, killing nearly 1,400 people and causing an estimated $200 billion in damage.

In a sweeping recent policy statement in 2013, the Justice Department said it will not stand in the way in which of states searching for to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana so long as there have been effective controls in place to maintain marijuana away from children, the black market and federal property.

In 2021, Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana coast as some of the powerful storms to ever hit the United States, knocking out power to all of New Orleans, ripping roofs off buildings, and causing the Mississippi River to reverse its flow.

Today's birthdays:

• Actor Elliott Gould is 86.
• Former US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin is 86.
• Olympic sprint gold medalist Wyomia Tyus is 79.
• Olympic long jump gold medalist Bob Beamon is 78.
• Animal behaviorist and autism educator Temple Grandin is 77.
• Former US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is 69.
• Dancer and choreographer Mark Morris is 68.
• Actress Rebecca De Mornay is 65.
• Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is 57.
• Singer Me'Shell NdegeOcello (n-DAY'-gay-OH'-chehl-oh) is 56.
• Actress Carla Gugino is 53.
• Actress and singer Lea Michele is 38.
• MLB pitcher Noah Syndergaard (SIHN'-dur-gahrd) is 32.
• Rock singer Liam Payne (One Direction) is 31.

PHILADELPHIA – Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride, who could develop into the primary openly transgender member of Congress, believes that as a powerful politician in Washington, she may help earn respect for transgender people.

McBride, 33, is already the highest-ranking openly transgender politician within the country. She said diversity in Congress has each symbolic and substantive implications, but she shouldn’t be running on her identity. Instead, she hopes to construct acceptance through her successful work as a lawmaker through what she calls the “power of proximity.”

“Once you respect someone as a really, really hard-working legislator, it's hard not to see him as a person; it's hard not to see other people like him as human beings,” she said in an interview.

McBride shall be on the ballot in November to interchange U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D., Del., who was first elected in 2016 and is running for Senate this 12 months. McBride's only remaining serious rival, Eugene Young, recently dropped out of the Sept. 10 primary after Delaware Treasurer Colleen Davis also dropped out of the race earlier this 12 months. McBride, who has raised not less than $1.8 million for her campaign, has since secured the support of leading Democrats within the House. Her Republican opponent, Donyale Hall, had raised just $13,584 as of March 31.

The district is taken into account politically clear and has elected Democrats to the House of Representatives for over a decade.

McBride's campaign comes at a moment of political division on the problem of transgender rights. During his rally in Philadelphia on Saturday, former President Donald Trump vowed that if elected, on his first day in office, he would sign an executive order “cutting federal funding for any school that promotes critical race theory or 'transgender madness,' and banning transgender women from participating in women's sports.” His supporters went wild.

“How embarrassing is it to say we're going to ban men from women's sports?” Trump said. “Who would want men to play women's sports?”

McBride said “the MAGA movement's obsession with transgender people” is a component of a “manufactured culture war” that riles up Trump's supporters but doesn’t reflect the electorate at large. She sees it as a strategic distraction from problems for which the previous president has no solutions, she said.

The attacks may only be happening because there may be a “knowledge gap” about LGBTQ people, she said.

“When people start to understand the humanity of the people affected by a particular policy debate, they run out of time to target the politicians who are against equality and look for scapegoats,” McBride said. “We've seen that with gay people and marriage equality … and I think the same will be true for transgender people. But that only comes when there is full representation.”

Despite the vicious rhetoric found amongst conservative politicians surrounding transgender rights, McBride believes that over time she will “gain unlikely allies” in Washington.

McBride has worked across party lines and with politicians whose views on LGBTQ rights concern her, finding common ground on more issues than she expected, including access to health care, disinformation, paid family leave and gun safety laws, she said.

While the trust and familiarity that comes from working together may not make conservatives strong allies immediately, over time it might help open their “hearts and minds,” McBride said.

Although she is on target to win in November, candidates still have until July 9 to register for the September primary, and McBride said she’s going to not decelerate her campaign.

“I haven't won anything yet,” she said. “I have to continue to work to gain the support of Delawans across the state to have the privilege of representing them, and I take that responsibility very seriously.”

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