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Federal judge rejects female athlete’s plea to block male-born runner from girls’ field

A federal judge refused to suspend a male-born athlete from competing in girls' sports in Pennsylvania, rejecting a request from a teenage girl who placed second to the transgender student at a cross-country meet.

March 5, 2025

Trump vows to jail, deport campus agitators, cut funding over ‘illegal protests’

President Trump promised to imprison or deport campus agitators and halt federal funding to schools that allow "illegal protests," weighing in hours after his administration threatened to suspend federal grants to Columbia University over its handling of campus antisemitism.

March 4, 2025

Trump antisemitism task force targets Columbia’s federal contracts, grants

The Trump administration is considering suspending millions in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University over its lackluster response to campus antisemitism.

March 3, 2025

Senate Democrats block GOP bill to keep male-born athletes out of female sports

Senate Democrats sank afor now bill Monday barring male-born athletes from competing in female scholastic sports, defying a rising tide of public opposition to transgender players competing based on gender identity instead of biological sex.

March 3, 2025

Trump administration opens girls’ sports probe into Washington state school district

The Department of Education announced Monday a Title IX investigation into a Washington state school district accused of discriminating and retaliating against a female basketball player who refused to play against a male-born opponent.

March 3, 2025

George Washington University probes threat against professor behind Trump Gaza rebuilding plan

George Washington University has launched an investigation into threatening fliers targeting a professor over his plan to redevelop the Gaza Strip, a proposal shared last year with the Trump campaign.

March 3, 2025

Life Leadership Conference seeks to bring together post-Roe pro-life movement

The fall of Roe v. Wade came as a seminal victory for the pro-life movement, but navigating the aftermath hasn't been easy as fired-up pro-choice advocates redouble their efforts at the ballot box, state legislatures and federal government.

February 28, 2025

Pennsylvania transgender runner to race in girls’ state finals despite Trump executive order

The recent updates to Pennsylvania's gender policy on high school sports won't stop a transgender athlete from racing against girls in the state championships.

February 26, 2025

Washington Post opinion page will pivot to ‘personal liberties,’ ‘free markets’ under Bezos overhaul

The Washington Post's famously left-wing editorial page will undergo an about-face under a dramatic policy change announced Wednesday by billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, prompting the resignation of the opinion editor.

February 26, 2025

Lara Trump delivers ratings smash with debut of Fox News Channel show

President Trump isn't the only member of the family who knows how to deliver when it comes to television ratings.

February 25, 2025

Wisconsin Gov. Evers defends proposal subbing ‘inseminated person’ for ‘mother’

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers defended his budget proposal replacing the word "mother" with "inseminated person" in state law, saying he was concerned about legal clarity on artificial insemination and accusing Republicans of "lying."

February 25, 2025

Rachel Maddow rips MSNBC for dropping shows anchored by ‘nonwhite hosts’

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow took on her own network for shaking up its prime-time lineup, saying the decision to scrap shows helmed by Joy Reid and other minority hosts "feels indefensible."

February 25, 2025

Barnard College expels two students over anti-Israel classroom protest at Columbia

Barnard College has expelled two students over a protest in which masked activists disrupted a class on modern Israel at Columbia University, passing out leaflets with antisemitic imagery and refusing repeated requests to leave.

February 24, 2025

Upheaval at NBC: MSNBC ditches Joy Reid, ‘Nightly News’ anchor Lester Holt steps down

President Trump took a parting shot at MSNBC host Joy Reid after the cable network dumped the leftist firebrand's show, but that wasn't the end of the drama at NBCUniversal.

February 24, 2025

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers blasted for replacing ‘mother’ with ‘inseminated person’

The Biden administration referred to expectant mothers as "pregnant people" and "birthing people," but Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers prefers the term "inseminated person."

February 24, 2025

Trump launches probe into Maine schools after president’s clash with governor over trans athletes

The Trump administration announced it has launched investigations into whether schools in Maine are violating federal law by continuing to allow transgender athletes to compete in high school sports against biological women.

February 21, 2025

New Hampshire, Wisconsin scrub transgender-athlete policies after Trump order

California, Maine and Minnesota may be resisting President Trump's executive order on single-sex female sports, but not New Hampshire and Wisconsin.

February 21, 2025

‘See you in court’: Maine governor, Trump spar at White House over trans athletes

President Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills sparred face-to-face over his executive order banning biological males from competing in women's sports.

February 21, 2025

Nonprofit groups that rely on federal funding file suit challenging Trump’s executive orders

Three of President Trump's executive orders on diversity, equity and inclusion have been challenged by liberal nonprofit groups warning that they could lose millions in federal funding unless they adhere to the "unconstitutional" mandates.

February 19, 2025

Crushing the competition: Fox News rides Trump 2.0 wave to record ratings

The Fox News Channel was already crushing the competition in cable news -- and then the network received a Trump bump.

February 19, 2025