• 'Show the warrants.' Maine's governor demands data on arrests as fear spreads over federal immigration operations

    'Show the warrants.' Maine's governor demands data on arrests as fear spreads over federal immigration operations

    Jan 22, 2026 09:08 PM EST

    ... said. “If someone has evidence of criminal activity, we want to hear about it.” WATCH: 'See you in court,' Maine's governor tells Trump on transgender athlete ban Mills said school districts have gone “on alert,” particularly in Portland and Lewiston, and that some students have not been attending classes ...

  • January 13, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

    January 13, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Jan 14, 2026 12:47 AM EST

    Tuesday on the News Hour, in the deadliest street protests since Iran's revolution, demonstrators face a ruthless crackdown while President Trump promises help is on the way. The Supreme Court hears a landmark case on whether transgender people can be banned from girls' and women's sports. Plus, survivors ...

  • A look at the legal and political fight over trans athletes as cases reach Supreme Court

    A look at the legal and political fight over trans athletes as cases reach Supreme Court

    Jan 13, 2026 11:40 PM EST

    ... to understand how you can say that this law doesn't classify on the basis of transgender status. The law expressly aims to ensure that transgender women can't play on women's sports teams. So why is that not a classification on the basis of transgender status? Liz Landers ...

  • Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying French first lady Brigitte Macron

    Paris court finds 10 guilty of cyberbullying French first lady Brigitte Macron

    Jan 05, 2026 07:51 PM EST

    ... ordered to attend cyberbullying awareness training. The court pointed to “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments referring to false claims suggesting that Brigitte Macron was transgender and a pedophile. “Repeated publications have had cumulative harmful effects,” the court said. The defendants, eight men and two women ranging in age from ...

  • Federal employees file complaint against Trump administration's ban on gender-affirming care

    Federal employees file complaint against Trump administration's ban on gender-affirming care

    Jan 01, 2026 04:09 PM EST

    ... is sex-based discrimination and asks the personnel office to rescind the policy. “This policy is not about cost or care — it is about driving transgender people and people with transgender spouses, children, and dependents out of the federal workforce,” Human Rights Campaign Foundation President Kelley Robinson said in a ...

  • With major Supreme Court rulings ahead, Chief Justice Roberts says Constitution remains 'firm and unshaken'

    With major Supreme Court rulings ahead, Chief Justice Roberts says Constitution remains 'firm and unshaken'

    Dec 31, 2025 11:26 PM EST

    ... two dozen wins on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. The court's conservative majority has allowed Trump to move ahead for now with banning transgender people from the military, clawing back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, moving aggressively on immigration and firing the Senate-confirmed leaders ...

  • Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year

    Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year

    Dec 24, 2025 11:47 PM EST

    ... federal departments. Project 2025 military priorities accomplished by the Trump administration: Project 2025 called to end any public funding of gender-affirming health care for transgender service members. In May, the Pentagon announced it was halting new hormone treatments and surgical procedures. Project 2025 also said policies allowing transgender people ...

  • Supreme Court keeps block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in the Chicago area, for now

    Supreme Court keeps block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in the Chicago area, for now

    Dec 23, 2025 09:00 PM EST

    ... Trump, who had won repeated victories in emergency appeals since he took office again in January. The conservative-dominated court has allowed Trump to ban transgender people from the military, claw back billions of dollars of congressionally approved federal spending, move aggressively against immigrants and fire the Senate-confirmed leaders ...

  • Trump administration moves to restrict gender-affirming care for minors nationwide

    Trump administration moves to restrict gender-affirming care for minors nationwide

    Dec 18, 2025 11:30 PM EST

    ... become women, women cannot become men. He's speaking about adults. And that is kind of the foundation of understanding what it means to be transgender. So there was that thread throughout the whole event today that transgender people don't exist in the world view that you were hearing ...

  • Trump told FIFA, Olympics and NCAA to get in line. For the most part, they complied

    Trump told FIFA, Olympics and NCAA to get in line. For the most part, they complied

    Dec 18, 2025 07:39 PM EST

    It made for some awkwardness when Trump asked a silent room for applause after thanking Sykes for the USOPC’s move on the transgender policy. “Some of this is almost to the point of parody,” said Niven, the Cincinnati professor. “They’re just shiny things that are in front of ...