• Senate pulls AI regulatory ban from GOP bill after complaints from states

    Senate pulls AI regulatory ban from GOP bill after complaints from states

    Jul 01, 2025 06:49 PM EST

    ... and blamed a number of people and entities he said “hated the moratorium,” including China, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a teachers union leader and “transgender groups and radical left-wing groups who want to use blue state regulations to mandate woke AI.” He didn't mention the broad group ...

  • News Wrap: Idaho investigators identify alleged gunman in firefighter ambush attack

    News Wrap: Idaho investigators identify alleged gunman in firefighter ambush attack

    Jun 30, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    ... improperly terminated for social media posts she made prior to her employment. Officials say Kari MacRae was fired in 2021 for making and reposting anti-transgender TikTok content. Environmental Protection Agency staff published a declaration of dissent today, saying the Trump administration's policies undermine the EPA's mission. It ...

  • What's in the latest version of Trump's 'big bill' Senate Republicans are trying to pass

    What's in the latest version of Trump's 'big bill' Senate Republicans are trying to pass

    Jun 28, 2025 08:04 PM EST

    The Senate provided $40 million to establish Trump’s long-sought “National Garden of American Heroes.” There's a new excise tax on university endowments, restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence and blocks on transgender surgeries. A $200 tax on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns was ...

  • Around 100,000 march at Budapest Pride in defiance of Hungary's ban on the event

    Around 100,000 march at Budapest Pride in defiance of Hungary's ban on the event

    Jun 28, 2025 05:33 PM EST

    ... the latest crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by Orbán's government, which has already effectively banned both same-sex adoption and same-sex marriage and disallowed transgender individuals from changing their sex in official documents. Police rejected several requests by organizers in recent weeks to register the Pride march, citing the ...

  • How the Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions affects presidential powers

    How the Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions affects presidential powers

    Jun 27, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    ... wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people. Geoff Bennett: The justices also ruled on four other cases today, one upholding a key ...

  • Pentagon strips Harvey Milk's name from ship

    Pentagon strips Harvey Milk's name from ship

    Jun 27, 2025 10:05 PM EST

    ... equity and inclusion in the military and elsewhere. Hegseth's announcement comes during Pride Month — the same timing as the Pentagon’s campaign to force transgender troops out of the U.S. military. “We’re not renaming the ship to anything political. This is not about political activists,” said Hegseth ...

  • Who gains and who loses under Trump’s big budget bill

    Who gains and who loses under Trump’s big budget bill

    Jun 26, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... in the bill right now, but the parliamentarian ruled, no, that's more policy than it is actually budget maneuver. There's a ban on transgender care in Medicaid in this bill in the House version and Senate version. She ruled that cannot stay in the bill. But some major ...

  • Trump administration pulls the plug on suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

    Trump administration pulls the plug on suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

    Jun 21, 2025 09:40 PM EST

    ... at birth, and they believe that there are only two sexes, which effectively erases trans people and trans identities, when, in fact, we know that transgender people are a part and fabric of the society. John Yang: And this is not the only thing the administration is doing to sort ...

  • 6 things to know about lenacapavir, what experts call a 'wonder drug' for preventing HIV

    6 things to know about lenacapavir, what experts call a 'wonder drug' for preventing HIV

    Jun 20, 2025 10:22 PM EST

    ... to lenacapavir could save the lives of millions of people, experts say. But health care providers and policymakers need to work with Black, Latino and transgender communities to ensure that this “transformative” drug reaches the people who need it most “because we can’t assume that everybody will equally get ...

  • June 18, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    June 18, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Jun 18, 2025 11:22 PM EST

    Wednesday on the News Hour, the Supreme Court upholds a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors, Iran rejects President Trump's calls for surrender as it faces more bombardment from Israel and the murder of Minnesota Democrats highlights the increasing problem of misinformation on social media.