Supreme Court to weigh clash over opt-outs for books on gender identity, sexuality

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to consider Maryland parents’ challenge to their local school board’s policy that denies them the ability to opt their elementary school-age children out of instruction featuring storybooks that address gender identity and sexual orientation. At issue in the court fight between a group of families and

Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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The Honorable Mike JohnsonSpeaker of the House of RepresentativesWashington, D.C. 20515 March 28, 2025 Dear Mr. Speaker: I write to apprise you of developments in Yemen and the broader Middle East region. Houthi militants operating from bases in Yemen have perpetrated piratical aggressions against shipping and have continued to threaten and attack United States forces

RFK Jr.’s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

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The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new effort to study autism, the NIH’s top official said Monday. The new data will allow external researchers picked for Kennedy’s autism studies to study