• News Wrap: Supreme Court taking up challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapies

    News Wrap: Supreme Court taking up challenge to Colorado's ban on conversion therapies

    Mar 10, 2025 10:40 PM EST

    ... counselors engaged in the controversial practice. The justices have already heard arguments in a Tennessee case that examined the legality of state bans on treating transgender minors. Also today, the court turned down a Republican attempt to block five Democratic-led states from suing oil companies for allegedly hiding the ...

  • Federal worker who went rogue against DOGE says ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

    Federal worker who went rogue against DOGE says ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

    Mar 10, 2025 06:21 PM EST

    ... Press in an interview, adding that partisan politics have nothing to do with her objections and that the public deserves the EEOC's protection, including transgender workers. “This is how I feel and I’m not pulling any punches. And I will stand by what I wrote every day of ...

  • Supreme Court will hear Colorado case about state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

    Supreme Court will hear Colorado case about state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children

    Mar 10, 2025 03:43 PM EST

    ... actions by President Donald Trump targeting transgender people, including a ban on military service and an end to federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The justices also have heard arguments in a Tennessee case over whether state bans on treating transgender minors violate the Constitution. But they ...

  • March 7, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    March 7, 2025 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Mar 08, 2025 12:49 AM EST

    ... paint an uncertain picture of the near future, a convicted murderer in South Carolina chooses to be executed by firing squad for the first time in 15 years, and we look at what science tells us about transgender athletes as Republicans try to block them from playing women's sports.

  • Capehart and Ponnuru on whiplash from Trump's trade war and the transatlantic alliance

    Capehart and Ponnuru on whiplash from Trump's trade war and the transatlantic alliance

    Mar 07, 2025 11:30 PM EST

    ... Gavin Newsom, shall we? Because the California governor, he's broken with many elected Democrats by saying he thinks it's deeply unfair to allow transgender women and girls to compete in female sports. Take a listen to what he said in this podcast. Charlie Kirk, Founder, Turning Point Usa ...

  • What does the Education Department do? A guide to the agency Trump wants to gut

    What does the Education Department do? A guide to the agency Trump wants to gut

    Mar 06, 2025 06:35 PM EST

    ... department has instructed the office to prioritize complaints of antisemitism above all else and has opened investigations into colleges and school sports leagues for allowing transgender athletes to compete on women’s teams. WATCH: Schools face deadline to end diversity initiatives under Trump guidelines In his campaign platform, Trump said ...

  • Second federal judge extends block stopping Trump from freezing grants and loans

    Second federal judge extends block stopping Trump from freezing grants and loans

    Mar 06, 2025 05:37 PM EST

    ... previously said the temporary funding halt would ensure that the payments complied with Trump's agenda, which includes increasing fossil fuel production, removing protections for transgender people and ending diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The Republican administration has since rescinded a memo outlining the funding freeze. Still, many state government ...

  • Fact-checking Trump's claims during his address to Congress

    Fact-checking Trump's claims during his address to Congress

    Mar 05, 2025 11:50 PM EST

    ... help scientists understand the biological effects on humans and on the endocrine system. And they could also impact the wider U.S. population, not just transgender people. Again, Amna, those scientific experiments that were being paid for funded by NIH are not fraud. Amna Nawaz: So, leading up to this ...

  • Read the full text of Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress

    Read the full text of Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress

    Mar 05, 2025 03:53 PM EST

    ... you. Thank you. Stories like this are why, shortly after taking office, I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology. I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth ...

  • 7 takeaways from Trump's first address to Congress after his return to the White House

    7 takeaways from Trump's first address to Congress after his return to the White House

    Mar 05, 2025 06:00 AM EST

    ... from Trump’s address ‘worth it’ to stand up for Medicaid Trump leaned hard into cultural flashpoints — his opposition to affirmative action, diversity programs and transgender rights. He inflated the scale of his victory in November, the margin of which was actually among the smallest in American history. The tenor ...