Washington — President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order to ban transgender girls and women from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity, marking his latest move targeting transgender rights. “The war on women’s sports is over,” Mr. Trump declared at a White House event celebrating the mandate. The order, titled “Keeping Men
The Acacia Center for Justice receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts Acacia Center (screenshot), Border Patrol stop ((John Moore/Getty Images) A pro-immigration group that has called for “freedom from detention” for illegal aliens and says the immigration system is “intentionally designed” to exploit minorities has hired a Republican lobbyist as it faces
Washington — Senate Republicans said Wednesday that they intend to move forward with their own plan to approve key components of President Trump’s agenda beginning next week, as the House efforts to start the budget reconciliation process have stalled. “It’s time for the Senate to move,” Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters Wednesday, after briefing Senate
Neil Jacobs, who was acting administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2019 when President Trump altered an expected hurricane impact map — an incident known as “Sharpie-gate” — has again been picked by Mr. Trump to lead the agency. Jacobs, an atmospheric scientist who has worked in both the public and private
Dem AG Matthew Platkin’s office tells the Free Beacon it will appeal the ruling (Wikimedia Commons) A New Jersey court dismissed the state attorney general’s lawsuit accusing the nation’s largest oil and gas producers of causing global warming—a massive blow for climate activists who saw the case as an opportunity to regulate emissions nationwide and
From the proposed Los Angeles-area station to San Francisco, the long-delayed project is expected to cost up to $128 billion. President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that his administration will investigate the long-delayed California high-speed rail project, which was authorized by voters in the state in 2008. California has dedicated billions to the project so
The Treasury Department has clarified that DOGE has ’read-only’ access to the federal payments system. The Treasury Department has confirmed in a letter to Congress that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff will be given “read-only” access to the Fiscal Service Bureau’s nearly $6 trillion federal payments system. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently granted DOGE