news2shortsPresident’s directive placed on hold after families and medical providers sue over access to gender-affirming care A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender people under age 19. The ruling was a victory for trans and non-binary youth and their families who filed a … Read more
The US president does not care who controls east Ukraine, so long as he can access the rare earth minerals underneath In Donald Trump’s world, everything has its price. There is no place for sentiment in his politics. Common values cannot secure loans for military aid. And the US president does not care who controls … Read more
The Senate is deliberately slow-walking Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations.
President Donald Trump floated a joint meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming he wants all countries to move toward denuclearization. Trump on Thursday told reporters he plans to advance these denuclearization talks once “we straighten it all out” in the Middle East and Ukraine, comments that come as the … Read more
Out of power in the Senate and serving likely his last term, Sen. Mitch McConnell has often found himself on an island among Republicans in opposition to Trump.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday rejected Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s motion to extradite the New York doctor who allegedly prescribed and mailed an abortion pill to a Louisiana mother. “The governor of Louisiana sent an extradition request demanding New York turn over a physician who provided reproductive healthcare. New York is rejecting … Read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently confirmed health and human services secretary, will chair a new commission focused on addressing chronic disease.
Republican attorney general files suit claiming – without evidence – coffee chain’s hiring policies cause higher prices Missouri has sued Starbucks for discrimination because its workforce has “become more female and less white”. Filed on Tuesday by the state’s Republican attorney general, the lawsuit accuses the coffee chain of engaging in “systemic racial, sexual, and … Read more
Eric Adams weighs closer involvement with federal agency in sign of beleaguered mayor’s warm alliance with Trump In a sign of increasing cooperation with Donald Trump’s anti-immigration plans, New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, is weighing whether to allow the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (Ice) to re-establish an office at the city’s … Read more
Roughly 75,000 federal employees have accepted President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation program, after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management offered more than two million federal civilian employees buyouts in January to leave their jobs or be forced to return to work in person. Employees who accepted the so-called “fork in the road” offer will retain … Read more
