• 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.

  • 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.