WASHINGTON — Officials in the nation’s capital generally express full confidence in their ability to handle large, complicated events and huge crowds. As Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith recently […]
Transgender troops face a deadline and a difficult decision: Stay or go?
WASHINGTON — As transgender service members face a deadline to leave the U.S. military, hundreds are taking the financial bonus to depart voluntarily. But others say they will stay and […]
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in place
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of […]
Billion-dollar battery plant pauses construction amid electric vehicle and tariff uncertainty
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A Japanese company has halted construction on a $1.6 billion factory in South Carolina to help make batteries for electric BMWs, citing “policy and market uncertainty.” While […]
Migrants and ICE officers contend with heat, smog and illness after detoured South Sudan flight
WASHINGTON — Migrants placed on a deportation flight originally bound for South Sudan are now being held in a converted shipping container on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, where […]
A judge tells federal agencies they can’t enforce anti-trans bias policies against Catholic groups
BISMARCK, N.D. — Two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse for religious reasons to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide […]
Jury awards California prosecutor $3 million after she says she was forced out of her position
SAN DIEGO — A jury in California on Thursday awarded more than $3 million in damages to a former Orange County prosecutor who alleged the county’s district attorney targeted her […]
Jury deliberations to resume in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial
NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury will resume deliberations Friday in Harvey Weinstein ’s sex crimes retrial after ending its first day without reaching a verdict in a case that […]
Global LGBTQ+ advocates gather ‘on Trump’s doorstep’ at World Pride despite travel anxiety
WASHINGTON — Days before she was to deliver opening remarks to World Pride’s human rights conference in Washington, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, the co-founder of UK Black Pride, said she was denied […]
What Trump ordering an investigation into Biden’s actions might mean legally and politically
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into pardons and other executive actions issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden — launching an extraordinary effort to show that the […]