• Vulnerable South Africans struggle to find HIV medication after U.S. foreign aid cuts

    Vulnerable South Africans struggle to find HIV medication after U.S. foreign aid cuts

    Aug 24, 2025 08:17 PM EST

    Another challenge at public hospitals and clinics is discrimination, especially for sex workers and transgender people. “In hospital, they said they only give PrEP to people who are in a relationship with someone who’s HIV-positive and trying to have a baby,” one transgender woman said. She decided to ...

  • Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey resigns to become co-deputy FBI director

    Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey resigns to become co-deputy FBI director

    Aug 19, 2025 04:32 PM EST

    ... lawsuits challenging former President Joe Biden's administration on an array of policies, including immigration actions, student loan forgiveness, environmental rules, gun safety initiatives and transgender rights measures. He also threatened legal action against private gyms over bathroom policies, demanded that public schools ban drag shows and sued New York ...

  • Trump energizes conservative Christians with religious policies and assaults on cultural targets

    Trump energizes conservative Christians with religious policies and assaults on cultural targets

    Aug 07, 2025 06:38 PM EST

    ... that Maryland parents with religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ+ storybooks; that Tennessee can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors; and that states can block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid money. All three were decided by the same 6-3 margin, with Trump ...

  • WATCH: Trump signs executive order on 2028 Olympic task force

    WATCH: Trump signs executive order on 2028 Olympic task force

    Aug 05, 2025 08:54 PM EST

    Also present were Olympic champion gymnast Nastia Liukin and Brad Snyder, a swimmer who competed at the 2012 Paralympic Games. Trump praised Gene Sykes, chair of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee board of directors, for the USOPC’s move to effectively bar transgender women from competing in women ...

  • Smithsonian removes Trump from an exhibit's impeachment display, but says it's temporary

    Smithsonian removes Trump from an exhibit's impeachment display, but says it's temporary

    Aug 01, 2025 08:24 PM EST

    ... a planned exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery after officials raised concerns over her painting “Trans Forming Liberty, 2024,” in which she depicts a nonbinary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty. Sherald is best known for her painting of then-first lady Michelle Obama, which was commissioned by ...

  • Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announces run for Senate in North Carolina

    Former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announces run for Senate in North Carolina

    Jul 28, 2025 05:45 PM EST

    ... the coronavirus pandemic, Hurricanes Helene and Florence and a law that became an early flashpoint in the culture wars over access to public restrooms by transgender people. That “bathroom bill” was rolled back early in Cooper's first term, and the state’s economy soared during Cooper’s tenure. While ...

  • Conservative influencer Candace Owens sued for defamation over claims that France's first lady is a man

    Conservative influencer Candace Owens sued for defamation over claims that France's first lady is a man

    Jul 24, 2025 03:35 PM EST

    ... been dogged by conspiracy theories that Brigitte was born as a man named Jean-Michel Trogneux, who supposedly then took the name Brigitte as a transgender woman. Jean-Michel Trogneux is, in fact, Brigitte's brother. Last September, Brigitte and Jean-Michel Trogneux won a defamation suit against two women ...

  • Columbia University makes deal with Trump administration, agrees to pay more than $220 million to restore federal funding

    Columbia University makes deal with Trump administration, agrees to pay more than $220 million to restore federal funding

    Jul 24, 2025 02:04 PM EST

    ... the University of Pennsylvania in March over a dispute around women's sports. They restored it when school officials agreed to update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and change their policies. The administration also is looking beyond private universities. University of Virginia President James Ryan agreed to resign ...

  • July 19, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    July 19, 2025 - PBS News Weekend full episode

    Jul 19, 2025 10:00 PM EST

    Saturday on PBS News Weekend, Trump’s yearslong relationship with Jeffrey Epstein comes under scrutiny. What major cuts at the National Cancer Institute may mean for the fight against the disease. Transgender U.S. service members fight to continue to serve despite the Trump administration banning them from the military ...

  • Andrea Gibson, poetic explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49

    Andrea Gibson, poetic explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49

    Jul 15, 2025 05:25 PM EST

    ... Gibson perform at a bar in San Francisco a decade ago. Their poetry was electrifying, lighting up the room with laughter, tears and love. Gibson's poetry became a shared interest for the mother and son, and eventually helped Stay better understand her son when he came out as transgender.