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... flurry of executive actions Trump has taken during the first months of his second term. Federal judges have partially or fully blocked many of them, including efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, ban transgender people from military service and curb diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives among federal contractors and grant recipients.
... that no modifications of their projects will change the agency’s decision. Flatt noted that in recent weeks, some people have suggested that they exclude transgender people from their studies. Flatt said excluding people of all genders is not pro-science. “I refuse to do that,” they said. “The administration ...
... say. At Penn, the administration suspended $175 million in federal funding from the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services over a transgender swimmer who last competed for the school in 2022. The White House said the action came out of a review of discretionary money going ...
... abortion activists who had been convicted of blockading abortion clinics and used wording related to fetal personhood in an executive order rolling back protections for transgender people. The Republican president has appointed abortion opponents to some key Cabinet positions that could affect the availability of medication abortion and contraception, Medicaid ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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