GLOUCESTER, Va. — Amid the cornfields and marinas dotting this conservative tidewater Virginia enclave between the York River and Mobjack Bay, people are divided over what one local pastor calls "the civil rights issue of this generation" — how to deal with a transgender student's demand to use the boys' restrooms at the local high school.

Donald Trump on Tuesday stood by his call to block all Muslims from entering the United States, even as the idea was widely condemned by rival Republican presidential candidates, party leaders and others as un-American.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The University of North Dakota plans its own investigation into an incident in which authorities say a reported hate crime on campus turned out to be a fabricated story.

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is set to find out how much momentum he has for a political comeback, as Democratic primary voters decide whether to nominate the former Republican for a chance to reclaim his old job.

We go to Houston, Texas for this week’s White House Watch subject: U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas.) Cruz is no friend of the LGBT community, most recently introducing the State Marriage Defense Act as a direct result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal by Alabama to keep its ban on same-sex marriage.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is in the crosshairs of SFGN’s White House Watch this week. Jindal purportedly holds U.S. Presidential aspirations. His candidacy would be hard for the LGBT community and its allies to stomach.

Last Tuesday the Democrats held their first debate, which turned out to be a ratings success for CNN, pulling more than 15 million viewers.

We feature our first member of the Democratic Party in this week’s edition of SFGN’s White House Watch. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lived in the White House before as First Lady to her husband, Bill Clinton during his two terms from 1993-2001.

South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham makes this week’s White House Watch after announcing he is creating an exploratory committee to consider a run for the U.S. Presidency.

We stay in South Florida for this week’s SFGN White House Watch and focus on native son Marco Rubio, the junior U.S. Senator from West Miami.

In a new weekly feature here at SFGN, we will monitor potential and aspiring U.S. Presidential candidates. To launch this new element of our newspaper, we couldn’t think of a better person than former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.

He’s the son of a popular Libertarian politician who represented Texas for many years in the United States Congress. But Rand Paul is indeed his own man.

On the Republican front Donald Trump is still sucking up most of the oxygen, while most of the bottom tier candidates have been desperately trying to make the cut for the first debate, hosted by Fox News on August 6.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) – A transgender Wisconsin prison inmate is suing officials, saying they’re violating her rights by not allowing her to live as a woman.