• 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.

  • New biography documents life of pioneering LGBTQ rights activist Marsha P. Johnson

    New biography documents life of pioneering LGBTQ rights activist Marsha P. Johnson

    Jun 18, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... I speak now, we're in a time when the administration has been involved in an effort that really revises and erases a lot of transgender history from official government Web sites. There was reporting about the removal of some information, including related to Marsha P. Johnson's life, from ...

  • WATCH: Pentagon has given Trump possible options for Israel-Iran conflict, Hegseth tells Senate panel

    WATCH: Pentagon has given Trump possible options for Israel-Iran conflict, Hegseth tells Senate panel

    Jun 18, 2025 01:16 PM EST

    ... as a sailor during the Korean War. He also has touted other moves to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs and said a ban on transgender troops was a way to regain the “warrior ethos.” WATCH: ‘We have earned our spots’: Facing Trump ban, trans troops reflect on military service ...

  • 9 questions about Trump’s military parade

    9 questions about Trump’s military parade

    Jun 13, 2025 07:01 PM EST

    ... with some viewing the military parade as a commemoration of the institution’s history. Others have balked at the parade’s price tag and how the event papers over the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and an ongoing effort to remove transgender troops from service.

  • Veterans are divided over the Army's big parade, being held on Trump's birthday

    Veterans are divided over the Army's big parade, being held on Trump's birthday

    Jun 11, 2025 04:23 PM EST

    ... Republican president's policies that have targeted military veterans and current service members, including cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs and a ban on transgender troops. Purdy said the parade, long sought by Trump, will needlessly display U.S. military might on the president's 79th birthday. "It's ...