• How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted?

    How much of Project 2025 has Trump enacted?

    Apr 16, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    ... as of February this year. That's 283 of the 532 recommended actions.Let's look at two of these examples. One of them, on LGBTQ front here, Project 2025 directed the NIH to fund studies on negative effects of gender-affirming care. One of the first things that the ...

  • News Wrap: Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against WSJ for story on Epstein ties

    News Wrap: Judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against WSJ for story on Epstein ties

    Apr 13, 2026 10:45 PM EDT

    ... once again. That reverses an administration directive to remove it back in February, which drew fierce backlash. It also settles a high-profile lawsuit from LGBTQ+ groups and historic preservationists. The site is the first ever national monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history. Pending a judge's approval, the Pride Flag will ...

  • Hungary's Magyar wants to take over as prime minister as early as May 5

    Hungary's Magyar wants to take over as prime minister as early as May 5

    Apr 13, 2026 09:42 PM EDT

    ... undo much of the legislation that allowed Orbán to stack the courts, manipulate the electoral system, crack down on press freedom and discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community. Still, there are potential pitfalls that could stand in the way of the radical changes many Hungarians had hoped for. Historic win Magyar ...

  • Trump administration agrees to return Pride flag to Stonewall National Monument in New York

    Trump administration agrees to return Pride flag to Stonewall National Monument in New York

    Apr 13, 2026 07:06 PM EDT

    ... said. The Pride flag had become a flashpoint for arguments over President Donald Trump ’s approach to the Stonewall site — the first national monument commemorating LGBTQ+ history — and various other historical properties. After a yearslong campaign by activists who wanted the flag symbolizing LGBTQ+ pride to be flown daily inside ...

  • Orbán's election loss has ripple effects for Trump and U.S. conservatives

    Orbán's election loss has ripple effects for Trump and U.S. conservatives

    Apr 13, 2026 05:47 PM EDT

    ... a barrier on Hungary's southern border to block migrants from Africa and Asia who were moving northward through Europe. He and his party stifled LGBTQ+ rights, cracked down on freedom of the press and undermined judicial independence. Orbán cemented his power when his Fidesz party won enough seats in ...

  • Hungarian election could end Orbán's grip on power and alter Europe's political landscape

    Hungarian election could end Orbán's grip on power and alter Europe's political landscape

    Apr 10, 2026 10:40 PM EDT

    ... own words, an illiberal state based on national values, from fiscal conservatism pursuing state control in the economy, to crackdowns on immigration, and passing anti-LGBTQ laws, banning Pride events and same-sex marriage,. Orban has been accused by the European Union and human rights organizations of dismantling democratic institutions ...

  • WATCH: Vance speaks in Hungary on trip to help boost Orbán's reelection bid

    WATCH: Vance speaks in Hungary on trip to help boost Orbán's reelection bid

    Apr 07, 2026 02:56 PM EDT

    ... Orbán’s candidacy for reelection, and many in the Make America Great Again movement approve of the Hungarian leader's opposition to immigration, curtailing of LGBTQ+ rights, and capture of the media and academia. But with most independent polls showing a double-digit deficit for Fidesz among decided voters ahead ...

  • Supreme Court sides with therapist challenging Colorado ban on conversion therapy

    Supreme Court sides with therapist challenging Colorado ban on conversion therapy

    Mar 31, 2026 10:35 PM EDT

    ... therapy ban, but the opinion sort of downplayed the consensus among major medical organizations right now on the idea that conversion therapy is harmful to LGBTQ teens. Justice Samuel Alito, I believe, at the oral argument had pointed out, and then the opinion made the same point, that back in ...

  • 3 FBI agents fired after investigating Trump file class action suit alleging retribution campaign

    3 FBI agents fired after investigating Trump file class action suit alleging retribution campaign

    Mar 31, 2026 06:41 PM EDT

    ... Other fired employees who have sued include agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in 2020; an agent trainee who displayed an LGBTQ+ flag at his workspace; and a group of senior officials, including the former acting director of the FBI, who were terminated last summer. The ...

  • Idaho bill aims to criminalize transgender bathroom use in private businesses

    Idaho bill aims to criminalize transgender bathroom use in private businesses

    Mar 27, 2026 12:32 AM EDT

    ... laws barring transgender people from using bathrooms and changing rooms that align with their gender in schools and, in some cases, other public places. The LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Movement Advancement Project’s tracking of the laws shows that three other states — Florida, Kansas and Utah — have made it a criminal ...