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
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
‘What other contributions is she hiding?’ watchdog asks First daughter Ashley Biden speaks onstage during the DNC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Ashley Biden’s charity has a $500,000 discrepancy in its books, a watchdog alleged in a complaint filed with the IRS on Monday. During the height of her father’s presidency in 2023, Ashley Biden launched a
A federal jury found Nadine Menendez guilty in a high-stakes corruption case tied to her husband and former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), was convicted on April 21 on multiple federal corruption charges for her role in what prosecutors called a years-long bribery and foreign influence
This comes after Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) made the trip last week. Four more Democratic lawmakers have traveled to El Salvador to push for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of a high-profile deportation by the Trump administration. U.S. Reps. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.), Robert Garcia (D-Calif.),
The loan repayment push aims to stabilize the $1.6 trillion federal student debt portfolio and reduce taxpayer burden amid rising delinquency. Federal student loan collections—including wage garnishment—will resume within weeks, the Education Department confirmed on April 21, ending a five-year freeze and setting the stage for millions of defaulted borrowers to face renewed enforcement. The
CBS’s parent company needs FCC approval for proposed merger Brendan Carr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images), CBS studio (Gary Minnaert via Wikimedia Commons) CBS Studios will settle a case brought by a script coordinator who accused the company of using illegal racial quotas to discriminate against straight white men. Lawyers for both sides informed the court of