• Read the full letter from universities opposing 'government intrusion'

    Read the full letter from universities opposing 'government intrusion'

    Apr 22, 2025 08:42 PM EST

    ... second term, Trump has worked to crack down on any aspect of college life that could be perceived as “DEI,” launched investigations into antisemitism and transgender student athletics on campuses and threatened universities’ federal funding and nonprofit statuses. He has also pledged to dismantle the Department of Education, which historically ...

  • LISTEN: Supreme Court signals support for parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools

    LISTEN: Supreme Court signals support for parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools

    Apr 21, 2025 11:03 PM EST

    ... is a man. "Love, Violet" deals with a girl's anxiety about giving a valentine to another girl. "Born Ready" is the story of a transgender boy's decision to share his gender identity with his family and the world. "Intersection Allies" describes nine characters of varying backgrounds, including one ...

  • How Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church

    How Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church

    Apr 21, 2025 09:18 AM EST

    ... being homosexual is not a crime,” and that “everyone, everyone, everyone” is welcome in the church. During his pontificate, the Vatican reversed itself and said transgender people could be baptized, serve as godparents and witnesses at weddings; and approved same-sex blessings. But while he met several times with members ...

  • Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

    Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88

    Apr 21, 2025 08:54 AM EST

    ... garbage scavengers to join him onstage in Rio de Janeiro. “We have always been marginalized, but Pope Francis always helped us,” said Coqui Vargas, a transgender woman whose Roman community forged a unique relationship with Francis during the pandemic. His first trip as pope was to the island of Lampedusa ...

  • PHOTOS: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities and towns across the country

    PHOTOS: Anti-Trump protesters rally in cities and towns across the country

    Apr 20, 2025 10:41 PM EST

    ... Trump administration, among other things, has moved to shutter Social Security Administration field offices, cut funding for government health programs and scale back protections for transgender people. “I cannot sit still knowing that if I don’t do anything and everybody doesn’t do something to change this, that the ...

  • News Wrap: Man accused of targeting Shapiro charged with attempted homicide and terrorism

    News Wrap: Man accused of targeting Shapiro charged with attempted homicide and terrorism

    Apr 14, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    ... The new amendment also says that Hungary's Constitution will only recognize two sexes, male and female, a basis for denying the gender identities of transgender people and others. In Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro remains in intensive care today after undergoing a lengthy 12-hour surgery for a bowel ...

  • Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

    Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ public events

    Apr 14, 2025 10:11 PM EST

    Döbrentey, the lawyer, said it was “a clear message” for transgender and intersex people: “It is definitely and purely and strictly about humiliating people and excluding them, not just from the national community, but even from the community of human beings." The amendment is the 15th to Hungary’s constitution ...

  • Iowa Republican Gov. Reynolds says she won't seek reelection in surprise announcement

    Iowa Republican Gov. Reynolds says she won't seek reelection in surprise announcement

    Apr 11, 2025 04:25 PM EST

    ... available to any student in the coming year. Reynolds’ proposed budget line for the accounts next year reached $314 million. She backed policies to restrict transgender students’ use of bathrooms and locker rooms, and their participation on sports teams, in an effort to protect people assigned female at birth. This ...

  • WATCH: 'Hands Off' protest against Trump and Musk's federal cuts in Washington, D.C.

    WATCH: 'Hands Off' protest against Trump and Musk's federal cuts in Washington, D.C.

    Apr 05, 2025 04:06 PM EST

    ... administration's moves to fire thousands of federal workers, close Social Security Administration field offices, effectively shutter entire agencies, deport immigrants, scale back protections for transgender people and cut federal funding for health programs. Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has played ...

  • Federal judge plans to temporarily block billions in health funding cuts to states

    Federal judge plans to temporarily block billions in health funding cuts to states

    Apr 03, 2025 09:26 PM EST

    ... for the Trump administration, which is facing some 150 lawsuits on issues ranging from immigration to deep financial and job cuts at federal agencies to transgender rights. Federal judges have issued dozens of orders slowing — at least for now — the president’s ambitious conservative agenda. AP reporter Lindsay Whitehurst in ...