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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... hey, we are here. "Will & Grace" comes along, and suddenly there's a cultural change, a change in the country in how they viewed LGBTQ folks. We need to have that same kind of cultural conversation when it comes to the T, one that is nuanced and thoughtful, and ...
Civil rights enforcement Through its Office for Civil Rights, the Education Department conducts investigations and issues guidance on how civil rights laws should be applied, such as for LGBTQ+ students and students of color. The office also oversees a large data collection project that tracks disparities in resources, course access ...
... of U.S. foreign aid contracts have hit Africa harder than any other region. Lesotho's foreign minister, asked about Trump's comment on promoting LGBTQI+ in his country, said he was not aware of the $8 million contract Trump mentioned because USAID funding was largely channeled through non-governmental ...
... inclusion scholarships in Burma, $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is. $8 million to promote LGBTQ+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of, $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America ...
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