Sydney Kashiwagi - Reporter
Sydney Kashiwagi
Reporter
Sydney Kashiwagi is a politics reporter who covers breaking news.
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Blue states see ‘shield laws’ as bulwark against Republican efforts to restrict abortion and gender-affirming care
Jul 13, 2023
As Republican lawmakers have pushed restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care in recent months, Democratic-led states have increasingly responded by passing so-called shield laws to protect people who undergo such care against the possibility they could one day face prosecution.
Miami mayor and GOP presidential hopeful Francis Suarez says Uyghurs stumble was due to pronunciation
Jul 12, 2023
Miami Mayor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez reiterated that he fumbled over a question regarding the plight of Uyghur Muslims because he is used to a different way of saying their name.
Grace Napolitano, longtime California congresswoman, announces her retirement
Jul 8, 2023
Longtime California Rep. Grace Napolitano announced Saturday that she is retiring from Congress at the end of her current term.
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June 29, 2023 Supreme Court affirmative action decision
Jun 29, 2023
The Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in admissions — a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.
Former Ohio House speaker sentenced to 20 years in $60 million bribery scheme
Jun 29, 2023
A former Republican speaker of Ohio’s House of Representatives was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for his role in a $60 million bribery scheme.
Exonerated Central Park Five member Yusef Salaam poised to win New York City Council seat
Jun 28, 2023
An exonerated member of the Central Park Five, Yusef Salaam, is poised to win a Democratic primary race for a New York City Council seat in Harlem.
Texas Senate votes to bar Sen. Angela Paxton from voting in husband’s impeachment trial
Jun 22, 2023
State Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, will no longer be allowed to vote in her husband’s upcoming impeachment proceedings as a result of new rules the state Senate approved Wednesday night.
States accelerate efforts to block Chinese purchases of agricultural land
Jun 19, 2023
A growing number of states are considering or have passed measures this legislative term to ban “foreign adversaries” and foreign entities – specifically China – from buying farmland.
Trump-appointed judge blocks parts of Indiana ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth
Jun 17, 2023
A Trump-appointed judge in Indiana has blocked parts of a state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth from going into effect next month.
Iowa Supreme Court deadlocks on 6-week abortion ban and leaves block in place
Jun 16, 2023
Abortion will remain legal in Iowa for up to 20 weeks after the state Supreme Court on Friday declined to lift a block on a six-week ban.
Wisconsin GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher won’t run for Senate in major blow to Republicans
Jun 9, 2023
Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, whom national Republicans had tried to recruit, announced Friday he will seek reelection in the House instead.
Trump-appointed federal judge rules Tennessee’s anti-drag show law is ‘unconstitutional’
Jun 3, 2023
A Trump-appointed federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a state law limiting public drag show performances represented an “unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of speech.”
How every senator voted on the debt ceiling bill
Jun 2, 2023
The Senate voted late Thursday on a bill to suspend the country’s debt limit through January 1, 2025 following weeks of contentious negotiations on the legislative deal between the White House and Republicans.
Minnesota becomes 23rd state to legalize recreational marijuana
May 30, 2023
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota signed a bill into law on Tuesday legalizing recreational marijuana use in the state.
State judge temporarily blocks South Carolina’s 6-week abortion ban
May 26, 2023
A South Carolina judge has temporarily blocked the state’s new abortion restrictions from going into effect, just one day after Gov. Henry McMaster signed them into law.
Deputy Treasury secretary rules out possibility of using 14th Amendment to raise debt ceiling
May 26, 2023
Invoking the 14th Amendment to lift the borrowing cap on the US debt ceiling as a way to work around slow-moving negotiations is not an option, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told CNN Friday, the administration’s most definitive response yet to an unlikely option demanded by some progressives.
About
Sydney Kashiwagi is a politics reporter who covers breaking news.
Before joining CNN, Sydney was a City Hall reporter for The Staten Island Advance, New York City’s only borough-based daily newspaper. In this role, she covered the administration of former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio out of ‘Room 9’ and eventually all things related to state and local politics for the publication as well as everything from the NYPD disciplinary trial of ex-officer Daniel Pantaleo, Staten Island’s competitive NY-11 congressional race, the city and state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic as well as Staten Island’s efforts to secede from New York City.
Before New York City, Sydney covered the 9-member board of supervisors in Loudoun County, Virginia for The Loudoun Times-Mirror.
Sydney is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C.
