Valerie Richardson

Christian camp drops lawsuit after being declared exempt from Colorado’s gender-identity rules

A Christian summer camp may continue to house campers based on sex instead of gender identity after reaching an agreement with Colorado officials on the state's anti-discrimination regulations.

June 26, 2025

Hegseth returns fire after being scolded for saying ‘boys in bombers’

Don't expect Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to apologize for failing to use gender-inclusive language when congratulating "our boys in bombers" who took out Iran's nuclear facilities.

June 26, 2025

Lawsuit rips MIT for becoming ‘breeding ground’ for antisemitism

A lawsuit filed Wednesday against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology accused university officials of "standing idly by" as the campus became a hotbed of antisemitism, prompting a Jewish graduate student to abandon the Ph.D. program in the face of relentless harassment.

June 25, 2025

California has 10 days to OK booting biological males from girls’ sports or risk federal funding

The Trump administration on Wednesday gave California 10 days to agree to remove biological males from girls' scholastic sports or risk the loss of federal funding, saying the state's transgender-eligibility policy violates federal law.

June 25, 2025

‘Trans men are men’: Planned Parenthood mocked after urging men to test for cervical cancer

Planned Parenthood saw questions raised about its medical know-how after promoting cervical cancer screenings -- for men.

June 24, 2025

Trump administration declares end of the road for Clinton-era roadless rule

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has announced plans to rescind the hotly disputed Clinton-era roadless rule.

June 24, 2025

Olympic great Simone Biles nukes X account after dust-up with Riley Gaines

Gymnastics star Simone Biles has apparently taken down her account on X after a public relations debacle that began when she attacked former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines over her opposition to biological males in female sports.

June 23, 2025

Dobbs anniversary sees abortions rise, Democrats fall in defiance of predictions

Two outcomes seemed certain in the months after the Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson: Abortions would decline and the blowback from the fall of Roe v. Wade would usher in a new era of dominance for the Democratic Party.

June 23, 2025

New Mexico venue accused of political bias for booting women’s sports rally featuring Trump official

A rally for women's sports including Education Secretary Linda McMahon and former New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has been forced to relocate after venue operators backed out over the event's "partisan political" nature.

June 23, 2025

Poll shows most voters support defunding Planned Parenthood when told about ‘substandard’ care

A newly released poll shows that most Americans support cutting Planned Parenthood's taxpayer funding after being told about health and safety concerns at the nation's largest abortion provider.

June 23, 2025

‘Insufferable’: NYT ridiculed for chastising Hegseth’s reference to ‘our boys on those bombers’

There's never a wrong time to upbraid the Trump administration for being insufficiently inclusive, as far as the New York Times is concerned.

June 22, 2025

University of Oregon dinged for $191K to settle free-speech case with conservative professor

The University of Oregon must pay $191,000 in attorneys' fees to settle a lawsuit filed by a conservative professor who was blocked from the diversity office's social media account after posting "all men are created equal."

June 21, 2025

State Department fires visa specialist caught saying he advises people on avoiding deportation

The State Department has dismissed a visa specialist who was caught on hidden camera saying he coaches potential illegal aliens on how to avoid deportation as well as condemning his Jewish co-workers as "garbage people."

June 21, 2025

California ordered to delete gender ideology from federally funded sex-ed program

The Trump administration gave California a deadline to eliminate gender-ideology references from material used in a federally funded program aimed at preventing teen pregnancy, accusing the state of seeking to "indoctrinate our children."

June 20, 2025

Republicans ask for EPA probe into impact of abortion pills on water supply, infertility

House and Senate Republicans have called for the Environmental Protection Agency to study whether the rising use of abortion pills is contaminating the nation's water supply, citing concerns that the drugs may be contributing to infertility rates.

June 19, 2025

BYU study shows that boys run faster than girls even before puberty

Some international sports authorities have agreed to let transgender athletes compete in the female category as long as they haven't undergone male puberty, but that compromise may not be enough to level the playing field.

June 19, 2025

XX-XY Athletics CEO Jennifer Sey refuses to bow to Colorado’s anti-misgendering law

Jennifer Sey hasn't run afoul of Colorado's newly passed ban on "misgendering," but it's only a matter of time.

June 18, 2025

University blasted for investigating student who distributed free copies of pro-Israel book

Students at West Virginia University may want to think twice before handing out free copies of books sympathetic to the Israeli cause.

June 17, 2025

McMahon raises stakes by referring New York’s ban on Indian mascots to Justice Department

The Trump administration isn't taking no for an answer in its battle to overturn New York's prohibition on American Indian school mascots.

June 17, 2025

House DOGE panel opens investigation into Planned Parenthood’s use of federal funds

Planned Parenthood has long denied using federal funds to pay for abortion procedures, but House Republicans have their doubts.

June 16, 2025