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  • 5 years after pandemic surge, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders still targets of hatred

    5 years after pandemic surge, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders still targets of hatred

    Mar 27, 2025 05:56 PM EDT

    “What’s the opposite of diversity? It’s segregation or re-segregation,” Manjusha Kulkarni, Stop AAPI Hate co-founder, said, referring to Trump's policies so far. “They want to put us — people of color, women, LGBTQ — sort of back in our ‘place,’ which means not with access to ...

  • WATCH: Senate holds confirmation hearing for Frank Bisignano, Social Security nominee

    WATCH: Senate holds confirmation hearing for Frank Bisignano, Social Security nominee

    Mar 24, 2025 10:47 PM EDT

    ... no intent to have anything like that happen under my watch." Bisignano, a Wall Street veteran and one-time defender of corporate policies to protect LGBTQ+ people from discrimination, has served as chairman of Fiserv, a payments and financial services tech firm since 2020. He told CNBC in February that ...

  • 'We need fighters': Voters at town hall share frustrations, demand action from Democrats

    'We need fighters': Voters at town hall share frustrations, demand action from Democrats

    Mar 21, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... Desjardins: But others want something less vague. For Matt Lee (ph), he's concerned that Democrats aren't doing enough to support members of the LGBTQ+ community. Matt Lee, Virginia: How can anybody feel like this party has their back when the lowest tier of marginalized people is just, we ...

  • While Trump’s trans military ban is challenged in court, long-serving troops prepare for what's next

    While Trump’s trans military ban is challenged in court, long-serving troops prepare for what's next

    Mar 21, 2025 10:23 PM EDT

    ... challenge against the ban, said the arguments the administration has raised about readiness and unit cohesion are repeating the “same hypotheticals and fearmongering,” she said. The Defense Department, she added, is still cleaning up the dishonorable discharges that some LGBTQ+ service members received under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

  • News Wrap: NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space

    News Wrap: NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space

    Mar 18, 2025 10:45 PM EDT

    ... of several organizations named in an executive order last month directing them to reduce operations. Turning overseas, Hungary has passed a law that bans pro-LGBTQ pride events and lets authorities use facial recognition technology to identify participants. As the measure passed in Parliament by an overwhelming margin, opposition lawmakers ...

  • Pentagon history purge highlights which stories are told and why others are ignored

    Pentagon history purge highlights which stories are told and why others are ignored

    Mar 18, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... for example, the National Park Service rewrote an account of the Stonewall uprising to honor LGB community members by removing the T and Q from LGBTQ. And I think it's another example of where you have this sort of very rapid, clumsily applied set of preferences to the history ...

  • Pentagon restores some webpages honoring minority service members but defends DEI purge

    Pentagon restores some webpages honoring minority service members but defends DEI purge

    Mar 18, 2025 06:15 PM EDT

    ... raises questions as to whether the administration's fixation on getting rid of images that highlight the contributions of women, minorities and members of the LGBTQ community will ultimately backfire and hurt recruiting. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump have already removed the only female four-star officer ...

  • White House ignores court and invokes Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans

    White House ignores court and invokes Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans

    Mar 17, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... national entered legally through an app that allowed him to declare asylum. He worked in -- he was working in the arts in El Salvador, is LGBTQ, and he was detained for months by ICE. And then his attorneys found out that he was potentially deported to El Salvador over the ...

  • News Wrap: Supreme Court taking up challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapies

    News Wrap: Supreme Court taking up challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapies

    Mar 10, 2025 10:40 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Monday, the Supreme Court is taking up a challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapies for LGBTQ+ children, a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea, Ukrainian officials will propose a limited ceasefire with Russia in talks with the U.S ...

  • Federal worker who went rogue against DOGE says ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

    Federal worker who went rogue against DOGE says ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

    Mar 10, 2025 06:21 PM EDT

    ... under Musk, an unelected official. Her alarm grew when her supervisor directed administrative judges in her New York district office to pause all their current LGBTQ+ cases and send them to Washington for further review in order to comply with Trump's executive order declaring that the government would recognize ...

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