• WATCH: Trump hosts celebration of Women's History Month at White House

    WATCH: Trump hosts celebration of Women's History Month at White House

    Mar 26, 2025 06:01 PM EST

    ... he got to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Trump said, “I owe you a call. I’ll call you.” Trump also criticized Democrats’ record on transgender issues at the event, saying the previous administration wanted to “abolish the very concept of womanhood.” “No matter how many surgeries you have or ...

  • Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order to rehire probationary federal workers

    Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order to rehire probationary federal workers

    Mar 24, 2025 02:30 PM EST

    ... administration more than three dozen times after finding violations of federal law. The rulings run the gamut from birthright citizenship changes to federal spending to transgender rights. The order appealed Monday was one of two handed down the same day that both found separate legal problems with the way the ...

  • While Trump’s trans military ban is challenged in court, long-serving troops prepare for what's next

    While Trump’s trans military ban is challenged in court, long-serving troops prepare for what's next

    Mar 21, 2025 10:23 PM EST

    He told everyone that he was raised as a girl. He said he was taking testosterone to transition to living as a man. He was willing to explain to anyone what being transgender meant. “At the end of the day, we have a job to do,” he remembered telling the ...

  • Colleges cut ties with The PhD Project, a nonprofit targeted by Trump administration over DEI

    Colleges cut ties with The PhD Project, a nonprofit targeted by Trump administration over DEI

    Mar 21, 2025 08:45 PM EST

    ... may see reason not to push back. The Trump administration has shown willingness to withhold federal funding over issues involving antisemitism allegations, diversity programs and transgender athletes. At Columbia University, under fire for its handling of pro-Palestinian protests, the administration pulled $400 million in federal money and threatened billions ...

  • WATCH: Trump signs order for plan to shut down Education Department

    WATCH: Trump signs order for plan to shut down Education Department

    Mar 20, 2025 02:33 PM EST

    ... the Office for Civil Rights and the threat of withdrawing federal education money to target schools and colleges that run afoul of his orders on transgender athletes participating in women's sports, pro-Palestinian activism and diversity programs. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, a Democrat on the Senate Committee on ...

  • News Wrap: Israel launches ground operation in Gaza after ending ceasefire with Hamas

    News Wrap: Israel launches ground operation in Gaza after ending ceasefire with Hamas

    Mar 19, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    In our news wrap Wednesday, Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza after abruptly ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas, a judge moved the case of Mahmoud Khalil to New Jersey, the White House suspended $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender athlete ...

  • A parents group is challenging an Ohio school district's pronoun policy. Here's what to know

    A parents group is challenging an Ohio school district's pronoun policy. Here's what to know

    Mar 19, 2025 08:26 PM EST

    ... classmate is actually a male — or vice versa — or that a classmate is 'nonbinary' and neither male nor female." WATCH: What science tells us about transgender athletes The group argues that the policies unconstitutionally compel "viewpoint-based" speech by forcing students who believe in only two genders to use pronouns ...

  • Hungary passes anti-LGBTQ+ law banning Pride events

    Hungary passes anti-LGBTQ+ law banning Pride events

    Mar 18, 2025 06:36 PM EST

    ... event, which attracts thousands each year and celebrates the history of the LGBTQ+ movement while asserting the equal rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. Following the law's passage Tuesday, Budapest Pride spokesperson Jojó Majercsik told The Associated Press that despite Orbán's yearslong effort to stigmatize ...

  • What is Voice of America and why Trump is dismantling the broadcaster

    What is Voice of America and why Trump is dismantling the broadcaster

    Mar 17, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    Nick Schifrin: ... and on Friday night released an executive order eliminating parent company U.S. Agency for Global Media. This is the video that is now on loop for Voice of America, and all staff have been put on leave. Announcer (through interpreter): Fifteen transgender women who were apprehended by ...

  • Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow some birthright citizenship restrictions to take effect

    Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow some birthright citizenship restrictions to take effect

    Mar 13, 2025 09:27 PM EST

    ... s term, she wrote.The heightened pace of activity also reflects how quickly Trump has moved, less than two months in office, to fire thousands of federal workers, upend tens of billions of dollars in foreign and domestic aid, roll back the rights of transgender people and restrict birthright citizenship.