The president’s order aims to reverse Biden-era policies that fund so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ for individuals under 19 years old. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to protect children under the age of 19 from gender transitions. The order signed on Tuesday ends all federal support for the surgeries. “Accordingly, it is the policy
Senators question experts during a hearing on national security and trade implications surrounding the Panama Canal. An international law expert testifying before the U.S. Senate on national security threats to the Panama Canal said that “foreign operation” of the canal is prohibited and that China’s de facto control of ports on both ends of the
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services will appear before two panels on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will appear on Jan. 29 at a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee
The judge ordered a brief administrative stay on portions of the freeze. A federal judge temporarily blocked part of President Donald Trump’s directive to pause federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance on Jan. 28, hours after advocacy groups and several Democratic state attorneys general filed lawsuits against the administration. During a Tuesday afternoon hearing
Trump’s Treasury secretary became the highest-ranking openly gay official to be confirmed by the Senate (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made history as the nation’s highest-ranking gay official after the Senate confirmed him to the cabinet post on Monday. But the confirmation has gone unmentioned by the country’s top LGBT groups, which effusively
‘A previous version of this article referred to Samidoun as an activist network that supports Palestinian prisoners’ L: (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) R: A Samidoun flier with an anti-Israel slogan. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Washington Post quietly amended a piece on “Palestinian prisoners” to note that the original version cited the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Sitting on the shelf in the nation’s capital are thousands of ideas for making Uncle Sam cost taxpayers a lot less. Federal departments and agencies haven’t addressed 13,808 cost-saving anti-waste and fraud recommendations from Inspectors-General (IGs), some more than five years old, and nearly 300 more related Government Accountability Office (GAO) ideas, according to government