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... were either partially or fully canceled. Temperatures in Paris remained at 101 degrees Fahrenheit even at sunset. The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender athletes from its women's sports in order to resolve its federal civil rights case with the Trump administration. The Department of Education said ...
... people understand their own sexuality, their own risk. It is certainly going to be used by some gay men and men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, people who inject drugs, sex workers, young women in -- particularly in Eastern and Southern Africa, where we see high rates of HIV.
... and blamed a number of people and entities he said “hated the moratorium,” including China, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a teachers union leader and “transgender groups and radical left-wing groups who want to use blue state regulations to mandate woke AI.” He didn't mention the broad group ...
... improperly terminated for social media posts she made prior to her employment. Officials say Kari MacRae was fired in 2021 for making and reposting anti-transgender TikTok content. Environmental Protection Agency staff published a declaration of dissent today, saying the Trump administration's policies undermine the EPA's mission. It ...
The Senate provided $40 million to establish Trump’s long-sought “National Garden of American Heroes.” There's a new excise tax on university endowments, restrictions on the development of artificial intelligence and blocks on transgender surgeries. A $200 tax on gun silencers and short-barreled rifles and shotguns was ...
... the latest crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by Orbán's government, which has already effectively banned both same-sex adoption and same-sex marriage and disallowed transgender individuals from changing their sex in official documents. Police rejected several requests by organizers in recent weeks to register the Pride march, citing the ...
... wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people. Geoff Bennett: The justices also ruled on four other cases today, one upholding a key ...
... equity and inclusion in the military and elsewhere. Hegseth's announcement comes during Pride Month — the same timing as the Pentagon’s campaign to force transgender troops out of the U.S. military. “We’re not renaming the ship to anything political. This is not about political activists,” said Hegseth ...
... in the bill right now, but the parliamentarian ruled, no, that's more policy than it is actually budget maneuver. There's a ban on transgender care in Medicaid in this bill in the House version and Senate version. She ruled that cannot stay in the bill. But some major ...
... at birth, and they believe that there are only two sexes, which effectively erases trans people and trans identities, when, in fact, we know that transgender people are a part and fabric of the society. John Yang: And this is not the only thing the administration is doing to sort ...
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