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  • A look at the Trump administration's efforts to slash public media funding

    A look at the Trump administration's efforts to slash public media funding

    Apr 16, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... excluded or marginalized. The Trump administration makes that argument, and they also make the argument that, by covering issues like race in America, gender issues, LGBTQ issues, that public media is somehow on a campaign to change the culture of America. Russell Vought, who is the current head of the ...

  • News Wrap: Man accused of targeting Shapiro charged with attempted homicide and terrorism

    News Wrap: Man accused of targeting Shapiro charged with attempted homicide and terrorism

    Apr 14, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... insurrection, the charges are punishable by life in prison or death. In Central Europe, Hungary's Parliament passed a new constitutional amendment that bans public LGBTQ events. It set off protests, including before the vote, when demonstrators tried to block lawmakers from entering. They had to be physically removed by ...

  • How the Telegram app became a hub for hate crime and radical extremists

    How the Telegram app became a hub for hate crime and radical extremists

    Apr 13, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... Thompson: The people that we're looking at in the telegram scene are not just saying, I'm racist, I'm antisemitic, I'm anti-LGBTQ. What they were doing for five years, half a decade, was encouraging people to commit terrorist attacks. So when went on to Telegram and ...

  • Republicans win Florida special elections in Trump strongholds by narrower margins than in 2024

    Republicans win Florida special elections in Trump strongholds by narrower margins than in 2024

    Apr 02, 2025 01:34 AM EST

    ... until 2024 when he successfully won his election to the Florida Senate. He is known for his support of Israel and his efforts to restrict LGBTQ+ rights. Patronis’ family founded the well-known Panama City restaurant Capt. Anderson’s, located along the Gulf of Mexico. He has been involved in ...

  • Live results: Florida special elections to replace Gaetz and Waltz

    Live results: Florida special elections to replace Gaetz and Waltz

    Mar 31, 2025 07:56 PM EST

    ... until 2024 when he successfully won his election to the Florida Senate. He is known for his support of Israel and his efforts to restrict LGBTQ+ rights.Patronis’ family founded the well-known Panama City restaurant Capt. Anderson’s, located along the Gulf of Mexico. He has been involved in ...

  • What happens to health research when 'women' and 'diversity' are banned words?

    What happens to health research when 'women' and 'diversity' are banned words?

    Mar 30, 2025 07:41 PM EST

    ... the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who also received separate notice from the NIH that their research beyond the study had been terminated. Flatt studies LGBTQ+ people and their risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, as well as thinking about their needs for care. Flatt said NIH funding ...

  • 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 EST

    “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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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.”

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