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Things to know about how Trump’s policies target transgender people
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Things to know about how Trump’s policies target transgender people

President Donald Trump has targeted transgender and nonbinary people with a series of executive orders since he returned to office. He has done it with strong language. In one executive order, he asserted “medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change...

USAID personnel told to stay away from headquarters after Elon Musk’s shutdown comments
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USAID personnel told to stay away from headquarters after Elon Musk’s shutdown comments

WASHINGTON — Employees of the United States Agency for International Development based out of the nation’s capital were ordered overnight not to come into the office Monday and to work from home. “At the direction of Agency leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan building in Washington, D.C. will be closed to Agency personnel...

DC plane crash wreckage removal set to begin
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DC plane crash wreckage removal set to begin

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Now Playing Salvage operations underway in DC plane crash 03:01 UP NEXT Investigators recover black box from Philadelphia medevac crash 01:52 US prices of gas, food, electronics set to rise after Trump’s tariffs 03:32 Iris Cummings Critchell, Olympian and aviator,...

One killed in Moscow ‘assassination attempt’ pro-Russia Ukrainian paramilitary leader
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One killed in Moscow ‘assassination attempt’ pro-Russia Ukrainian paramilitary leader

A bomb tore through the lobby of a luxury apartment block in Moscow on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring four others in an attack targeting a pro-Russian paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine, the state TASS news agency reported. The bomb detonated just as a man with bodyguards entered the lobby of the the “Scarlet...

One dead, thousands urged to evacuate as Australia’s northeast battles floods
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One dead, thousands urged to evacuate as Australia’s northeast battles floods

SYDNEY — One person died Sunday in heavy flooding in the Australian state of Queensland, authorities said, urging thousands of people to move to higher ground due to torrential rains. Queensland authorities said major flooding was underway in coastal Hinchinbrook Shire, a locality of around 11,000 people located about 310 miles north of the state capital, Brisbane. Several suburbs in...

Dozens of earthquakes shake Greek island of Santorini
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Dozens of earthquakes shake Greek island of Santorini

Schools remained shut and additional flights were scheduled to help people leave the Greek island of Santorini on Monday as dozens of tremors shook the popular holiday destination for a fourth day. Tremors have been recorded between the volcanic islands of Santorini and Amorgos in the Aegean Sea since Friday, forcing authorities to close schools...

Under Trump, conservatives reignite a battle over race and the Constitution
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Under Trump, conservatives reignite a battle over race and the Constitution

WASHINGTON — As part of President Donald Trump’s new war on diversity programs, conservatives are renewing a long-running legal battle over the meaning of the Constitution’s guarantee of “equal protection” that dates back to the post-Civil War era. Trump, as previewed in one executive order purporting to target diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, is...