• October 6, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    October 6, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Oct 06, 2025 11:38 PM EST

    ... courts, we hear from the governor of Oregon. After agreeing to some parts of a peace plan, Hamas negotiates with Israel for an end to the devastating war in Gaza. Plus, the Supreme Court prepares to take up a case on the controversial practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth.

  • A look at Colorado’s conversion therapy ban as it faces a Supreme Court challenge

    A look at Colorado’s conversion therapy ban as it faces a Supreme Court challenge

    Oct 06, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... such bans in the past, but as Stephanie Sy reports, this case is being heard against a backdrop of intensifying cultural and political debates around LGBTQ rights. A warning, this story discusses topics of suicide. ... Geoff Bennett: The U.S. Supreme Court began a new term today marking the first ...

  • The Supreme Court begins a new term that will examine Trump's expansive claims of presidential power

    The Supreme Court begins a new term that will examine Trump's expansive claims of presidential power

    Oct 06, 2025 09:14 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday began a new term that will have a sharp focus on President Donald Trump's robust assertion of executive power. Pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people also are on the agenda. On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments over ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

    LISTEN: Supreme Court hears case on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban

    Oct 06, 2025 07:44 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed to lean in favor of a Christian counselor challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights. Listen in the player above. Kaley Chiles, with support from President Donald Trump’s administration ...

  • The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary

    The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary

    Oct 05, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... a state senator in Texas issued a list of 850 books to be removed from school shelves. And they were mainly targeting books that had LGBTQ characters, race, and sexuality. And I then learned about a small group of librarians in Texas calling themselves the Freedom Fighters, who were speaking ...

  • A look at the major cases the Supreme Court will take up in its new term

    A look at the major cases the Supreme Court will take up in its new term

    Oct 03, 2025 10:35 PM EST

    ... of what is speech and what is conduct, but this is also the latest in a series of cases involving religious people and speech and LGBTQ people. We had two cases earlier involving the man who didn't want to make a cake for same-sex weddings, the woman who ...

  • Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

    Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

    Oct 01, 2025 04:26 PM EST

    ... s "Forever" and Jennifer Niven's "Breathless," and numerous works by Sarah J. Maas and Jodi Picoult. Reasons often cited for pulling a book include LGBTQ+ themes, depictions of race and passages with violence and sexual violence. An ongoing trend that PEN finds has only intensified: Thousands of books were ...

  • WATCH: Trump, Hegseth address rare gathering of U.S. military leaders from around the world

    WATCH: Trump, Hegseth address rare gathering of U.S. military leaders from around the world

    Sep 30, 2025 12:08 PM EST

    ... been told from previous administrations that “our diversity is our strength,” which he called an “insane fallacy.” “They had to put out dizzying DEI and LGBTQE+ statements. They were told females and males are the same thing, or that males who think they’re females is totally normal,” he said ...

  • Russell M. Nelson, oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 101

    Russell M. Nelson, oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 101

    Sep 28, 2025 05:19 PM EST

    Nelson also made headlines the next year when he repealed rules that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and labeled same-sex couples as sinners eligible for expulsion. Those 2015 policies had generated widespread backlash. But even though Nelson’s administration was gentler and more welcoming to LGBTQ+ people ...

  • Demand for egg freezing is rising as more people delay parenthood. Here’s what to know

    Demand for egg freezing is rising as more people delay parenthood. Here’s what to know

    Sep 27, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... you know, for example, women in same sex relationships rely on egg freezing to have biological children. And so the motivations are certainly different for LGBTQ people or solo parents by choice, et cetera. Ali Rogin: And Lucky, egg freezing is far from a guarantee. How much should patients be ...