• Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school sports

    Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school sports

    Jun 30, 2026 02:06 PM EDT

    ... sides. Tennis champion Martina Navratilova, swimmers Summer Sanders and Donna de Varona and beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings are supporting the state bans. Soccer stars Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn and basketball players Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart back the transgender athletes. In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled LGBTQ ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court seems likely to uphold states' bans on transgender students playing school sports

    LISTEN: Supreme Court seems likely to uphold states' bans on transgender students playing school sports

    Jan 12, 2026 08:38 PM EDT

    ... sides. Tennis champion Martina Navratilova, swimmers Summer Sanders and Donna de Varona and beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh-Jennings are supporting the state bans. Soccer stars Megan Rapinoe and Becky Sauerbrunn and basketball players Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart back the transgender athletes. The high-court arguments had been expected ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Elon Musk's impact on the U.S. government and agencies

    Brooks and Capehart on Elon Musk's impact on the U.S. government and agencies

    May 30, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... to get both of your takes too on the other big headline from this week, which was a flurry of pardons we saw from President Trump, really running the gamut from reality TV stars, to rappers, to former politicians, to commuting the sentence of a notorious former Chicago gang leader ...

  • WATCH: Bidens host the U.S. Women’s national soccer team for Equal Pay Day event

    WATCH: Bidens host the U.S. Women’s national soccer team for Equal Pay Day event

    Mar 24, 2021 07:56 PM EDT

    U.S. women's national soccer team stars Megan Rapinoe and Margaret Purce were at the White House Wednesday, participating in an event marking "Equal Pay Day." Watch the event in the player above. That's the day symbolizing how far into the year women must work on average to ...

  • PHOTOS: New Year's celebrations around the world usher in a new decade

    PHOTOS: New Year's celebrations around the world usher in a new decade

    Dec 31, 2019 08:14 PM EDT

    ... the sea of attendees, many of whom were also briefly rained on earlier in the evening as they waited in security pens for performances by stars including rap-pop star Post Malone, K-pop group BTS, country singer Sam Hunt and singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. The crowds packed into the ...

  • 'Hamilton' cast to Pence: 'We, sir, are the diverse America'

    'Hamilton' cast to Pence: 'We, sir, are the diverse America'

    Nov 19, 2016 02:07 PM EDT

    ... plea to donate to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, brought down the house. "Hamilton," which won 11 Tony Awards, has been praised by politicians and rap stars alike, influenced the debate over the nation's currency and burst through the Broadway bubble like none other. The first family has been ...

  • How music's biggest stars protested Trump's immigration crackdown at the Grammys

    How music's biggest stars protested Trump's immigration crackdown at the Grammys

    Feb 02, 2026 03:32 PM EDT

    Entertainment’s awards season has coincided with the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign in Minneapolis, forcing artists to decide whether and how to join the growing cultural revolt against immigration crackdowns. Pushback from music’s biggest stars was visible Sunday from the Grammys red carpet and throughout the telecast ...

  • Jury hears final arguments in in rape trial against Trump

    Jury hears final arguments in in rape trial against Trump

    May 08, 2023 09:52 PM EDT

    ... claims that Trump raped her in early spring 1996 in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman, a luxury department store in Manhattan across the street from Trump Tower. Trump's attorney, Joe Tacopina, attacked the allegations as absurd, saying they were an “affront to justice” and minimized “real rape victims.”

  • WATCH: Jan. 6 Capitol defenders honored with Congressional Gold Medal

    WATCH: Jan. 6 Capitol defenders honored with Congressional Gold Medal

    Dec 06, 2022 02:07 PM EDT

    ... the mob of Trump’s supporters pushed past them and into the Capitol, police were beaten with American flags and their own guns, dragged down stairs, sprayed with chemicals and trampled and crushed by the crowd. Officers suffered physical wounds, including brain injuries and others with lifelong effects, and many ...

  • News Wrap: Army says Vindman won’t be investigated over impeachment testimony

    News Wrap: Army says Vindman won’t be investigated over impeachment testimony

    Feb 14, 2020 11:50 PM EDT

    ... quote -- "arbitrary and capricious." The ruling is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The attorney who once pressed an adult film star's lawsuits against President Trump was convicted today of trying to extort Nike. A federal jury in New York found Michael Avenatti threatened the ...