Washington — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and the landmark law known as Title IX. The two states are among 27 that have enacted laws in recent
The U.S. government is revoking the legal status of several thousand immigrants from Somalia, raising the specter of deportation for a community often assailed by President Trump. A Department of Homeland Security official said the Trump administration had decided to terminate Somalia’s Temporary Protected Status program, which allows beneficiaries to live and work in the
Washington — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and the landmark law known as Title IX. The two states are among 27 that have enacted laws in recent
A Republican congressman from Florida introduced a bill Monday to annex Greenland and make it the 51st U.S. state as President Trump threatens to seize the autonomous Danish territory. Mr. Trump has said the United States will take Greenland “one way or the other,” floating the idea of buying the territory or taking it by
London — The heads of 10 major central banks and global financial institutions threw their collective support behind U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, saying in a joint statement published Tuesday that it was “critical to preserve” the banks’ independence. U.S. prosecutors have opened an inquiry into Powell, prompting his rare rebuke against escalating pressure
London — The BBC, Britain’s public broadcaster, will file a motion to dismiss a $10 billion lawsuit brought by President Trump over a 2024 documentary that spliced parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech together, according to a document filed with the court on Monday. The BBC argues that the court does not have jurisdiction to
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology. “Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models