Valerie Richardson

Colorado Democrats deliver ‘poke in the eye’ to Trump by passing another sanctuary bill

Colorado became a symbol of immigrant-sanctuary laws run amok last year after Tren de Aragua gang members set up shop at an Aurora apartment complex, but that didn't stop the Democratic state legislature from doubling down.

May 6, 2025

Trump administration raises stakes by cutting off Harvard’s access to federal grants

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Monday that Harvard University will no longer receive grants from the federal government, citing its "disastrous management" and "ugly racism," unless its complies with the Trump administration's demands.

May 5, 2025

Transgender employee challenges Trump administration’s single-sex bathroom rule

A transgender employee at the National Guard Bureau has filed a class-action complaint against the Trump administration over its policy requiring federal workers to use restrooms and other public facilities based on biological sex, not gender identity.

May 5, 2025

Trump FDA pressed to tighten abortion-pill safety after study points to dangers

Pressure is building on the Food and Drug Administration to reinstate safeguards on the abortion pill after a largest-of-its-kind study found the number of serious health scares far higher than the agency has previously acknowledged.

May 5, 2025

Harvard alum Stefanik says Trump ‘100% right’ on university’s tax-exempt status

Rep. Elise Stefanik may be a Harvard graduate, but she's lining up with President Trump in the battle over the Ivy League university's tax status. Asked whether Mr. Trump did the right thing when he declared that his administration would remove Harvard's tax-exempt status, Ms. Stefanik agreed emphatically, citing the university's handling of campus antisemitism.

May 4, 2025

HHS report on youth gender dysphoria, ‘gender-affirming care’ challenges U.S. medical establishment

The Department of Health and Human Services raised serious concerns about prescribing drugs and surgeries for youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria, butting up against the U.S. medical establishment's embrace of "gender-affirming care" for minors.

May 1, 2025

Colorado Democrats water down transgender-rights bill after public outcry

Colorado Democrats blinked on a hotly disputed bill expanding transgender rights, removing a provision that would put parents who use the wrong pronouns at risk of losing custody following a state and national outcry over parental rights and free speech.

May 1, 2025

Trump’s Title IX investigative team takes aim at Washington state’s transgender policies

The Trump administration launched an investigation Wednesday into reports that Washington state has violated Title IX with its policies on transgender athletes and concealing students' gender-transition activities from parents.

April 30, 2025

‘I am sorry’: Searing antisemitism report spurs apology, reforms from Harvard president

Harvard took its lumps after the university's long-awaited report on campus antisemitism acknowledged the obvious: that school officials failed to protect Jewish students as they were targeted, bullied and ostracized after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack.

April 30, 2025

B.A. for $6K: BYU-Pathway pioneers three-year degree for four-figure price tag

For aspiring college students who don't think they have the time or money to earn a four-year degree, the Brigham Young University system has a deal for you.

April 30, 2025

Chicago Public Schools’ ‘Black Students Success Plan’ faces federal civil rights probe

The Trump administration's war on racially discriminatory DEI programs has reached the Chicago Public Schools, where a "success plan" designed specifically for Black students is under investigation.

April 29, 2025

Adams family values: Commission drums up support for John Adams memorial

Congress signed off on legislation to create a memorial to John Adams in 2001, but with each passing year, the Founding Father's prediction that "monuments will never be erected to me" looks more and more prescient.

April 29, 2025

Trump administration opens racial-discrimination probe into Harvard Law Review

The federal government launched a probe Monday into allegations of race-based discrimination at Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, the latest salvo in the battle over wokeness between the Republican administration and the famously left-wing campus.

April 28, 2025

Women’s sports bills run up score as Georgia governor signs ‘Riley Gaines Act’

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Monday barring males from female scholastic sports starting in sixth grade, joining a majority of states requiring students to compete based on sex at birth.

April 28, 2025

Trump administration tells Penn to cancel trans athlete’s swimming records or face DOJ referral

The University of Pennsylvania must erase transgender swimmer Lia Thomas from its women's record books or risk federal charges under a resolution agreement proposed Monday by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

April 28, 2025

Maine lawmaker takes state House censure over transgender athlete to U.S. Supreme Court

A Maine state legislator who was barred from the House floor over a social media post about a transgender athlete in girls' sports has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved.

April 28, 2025

Abortion pills 22 times more dangerous than billed on warning label, study finds

A largest-of-its-kind study found that more than 10% of women who terminate their pregnancies with abortion pills experience serious health problems.

April 28, 2025

Team Trump jumps into Indian mascot battle by investigating New York’s ban

The New York Board of Education sought to eliminate "culturally abusive" stereotypes by nixing American Indian mascots in schools, but as far as the Trump administration is concerned, the ban itself may be discriminatory.

April 26, 2025

DOJ rejects immunity for U.N. Palestinian relief agency in boost for Oct. 7 families’ lawsuit

President Trump wasted no time defunding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, but it turns out his administration wasn't finished.

April 26, 2025

Trump administration opens foreign-funding investigation into Berkeley

The Department of Education has opened an investigation into whether the University of California, Berkeley, failed to disclose the extent of its international funding, as the Trump administration trains its sights on foreign dollars flowing into U.S. higher education.

April 25, 2025