Over a dozen states weigh laws that ban Pride flags in government buildings The bans cover unsanctioned flags as a whole, but the debate in statehouses has largely centered on Pride flags, which LGBTQ+ groups say are being targeted.
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Court orders Trump to restore lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children Without representation, children — some of whom are victims of trafficking — are left to navigate complex immigration courts themselves, advocates say.
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ICE to release detainee who came to the U.S. to give his brother a kidney José Gregorio González came to the U.S. to save his brother, who is in kidney failure, but was arrested in March before he could undergo donor surgery.
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DHS cuts funds for groups helping legal immigrants become U.S. citizens The community groups and adult-education organizations were told that their work no longer fits with the Department of Homeland Security’s goals under Trump.
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Farmers bewildered after USDA suggests cutting DEI from energy projects The USDA said it would hasten payments of long-withheld funding to farmers who responded to a survey and considered changing energy projects to remove DEI.
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Widower finds purpose in making earrings. At 95, he’s given away 10,000 pairs. Willis Wipf was heartbroken after his wife died and needed a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Making earrings became the reason.
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How the Trump administration took aim at Maine Maine has faced investigations and arbitrary reversals of funding, turning it into a test case for the Trump administration’s approach to perceived adversaries.
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Outside a Social Security office, fear, lines and misinformation Retirees are flocking to the agency’s office in Des Moines, mistakenly thinking they have to prove their identity anew or their checks will stop.
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As Trump shakes trust in U.S., a hub for F-16 fighter jets braces for impact Booming exports turned a South Carolina city into the “Global Home of the F-16.” Slipping foreign demand among angry allies could hurt that economic engine.
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Trump administration freezes tens of millions in family planning funding Nine Planned Parenthood affiliates are among the providers affected by the funding freeze, the nonprofit organization said Monday.
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At the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, art for here, now and beyond ‘If we do not stop this madness, we will destroy ourselves and the whole world,’ artist Adam Pendleton’s “Resurrection City Revisited (Who Owns Geometry Anyway?)”
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Fired health workers were told to contact an employee. She’s dead. Some federal health employees who were laid off Tuesday were told to contact Anita Pinder, who died last year, with discrimination complaints.
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Widespread layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies The move comes after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s announcement of a sweeping reduction of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dozens of staff at agency that supports museums and libraries put on leave The Institute of Museum and Library Services is a key source of federal support for the nation’s museums and libraries. The move risks upending vital resources.
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Karen Read is back on trial for murder. Here’s what to know. Read, accused of killing her boyfriend, alleges she was framed as part of a police cover-up. She is being retried after her first case ended in a mistrial.
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Alabama groups can aid out-of-state travel for abortions, judge rules “This should send a strong message to antiabortion politicians in states with bans,” said an attorney with the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project.
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Radio City Music Hall banned him. A T-shirt and AI might be to blame. Security may have used facial recognition technology to escort a man out of a concert. He once designed a Knicks shirt that criticized the team’s owner.
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