Is banning puberty blockers for minors the same as banning interracial marriage for adults? Why should girls be forced to develop breasts? Are powerful drugs that can cause infertility really so different from aspirin? Those were some of the questions posed to Matthew Rice, the solicitor general of Tennessee, as he defended his state’s ban
Mexican troops seized the largest fentanyl haul in the country’s history just days after President-elect Donald Trump vowed to impose tariffs in an effort to crack down on drug smuggling across the border, CNN reported. “It is the largest seizure of fentanyl pills that has ever been made,” Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday morning
The French government collapsed Wednesday after its lower house of parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the Wall Street Journal reported. The National Assembly passed a no confidence motion with 331 votes, above the 288 needed, forcing Barnier and his cabinet to resign. The motion stemmed from widespread backlash over Barnier’s efforts to
Revolving door is ‘spinning faster than ever,’ ethics watchdog director says Getty Images Bureau of Land Management director Tracy Stone-Manning has already lined up her post-Biden administration job: a cushy six-figure gig leading the Wilderness Society, an influential Washington, D.C.-based environmental nonprofit. Stone-Manning was confirmed to lead the Interior Department subagency in September 2021 and
Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City Wednesday morning, calling it a “brazen targeted attack,” the New York Times reported. Thompson was shot just before 7 a.m. outside a Midtown hotel where his company was holding an investors meeting. Thompson’s killer escaped on an electric Citi Bike
Three Democratic senators are urging President Joe Biden to “act decisively” and lock down immigration policies to shield illegal immigrants from President-elect Donald Trump’s deportation efforts, Politico reported. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), and Alex Padilla (Calif.), in a Wednesday letter to the president, asked Biden to expand and extend Temporary
Amid a severe budget crisis, the San Francisco Unified School District superintendent decided in March that some schools in the chronically dysfunctional, poorly performing public system needed to close. So it paid a Stanford University professor $30,000 to create an “equity-centered” formula that would determine which ones would shutter. After the results were announced in