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(NEW YORK) -- The National Park Service eliminated references to transgender people from its Stonewall National Monument website on Thursday, which now only refers to those who are lesbian, gay and bisexual.What used to be listed as LGBTQ+, has been changed to LGB."Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969, is a milestone in […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- One of the strongest storms of the season slammed fire-ravaged Los Angeles with heavy rain on Thursday, sending streams of mud and debris across roadways and sweeping a fire department vehicle off a Malibu road into the ocean, authorities said.A member of the Los Angeles Fire Department was inside the vehicle when it was swept off the road by a large debris flow and into the ocean, […]

(NEW YORK) -- After months of targeting transgender youth medical care, legislators in some states are now setting their sights on restricting funding for care for transgender adults.Lawmakers in at least eight states are seeking to restrict state or public funds from being used for gender-affirming care, limiting a patient's ability to use Medicaid to help pay: Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia.For Mason Kalinsky, that would […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio's plane experienced a mechanical issue while en route to Munich, Germany, on Thursday, according to a State Department spokesperson.The plane turned around returned to Joint Base Andrews before Rubio continued his travel to Germany and the Middle East on a separate aircraft, the spokesperson added.Rubio is now safely en route to Munich on a smaller aircraft, according to the State […]

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump's executive order restricting gender-affirming care for transgender people under the age of 19, according to the civil liberties groups behind the legal challenge to the order.Trump's order aimed to withhold federal funding to medical institutions that provide such care -- including puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgeries -- calling on […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Fourteen states have filed a federal lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, challenging Musk's role as head of the new Department of Government Efficiency and accusing him of being a "designated agent of chaos" whose "sweeping authority" is in violation of the U.S. Constitution."Musk's seemingly limitless and unchecked power to strip the government of its workforce and eliminate entire departments with the stroke of a pen, or a […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order calling on his administration to determine "the equivalent of a reciprocal tariff with respect to each foreign trading partner.""In other words, we're going to customize the reciprocal tariff based on individual trading nations, and that will depend on their profile," a senior administration official said on a call with reporters previewing the action.This means the administration plans to impose […]

(NEW YORK) -- A 25-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl on a NYC subway train Wednesday morning, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials.At approximately 11:32 a.m., passengers on a southbound W train alerted the conductor that a woman was giving birth inside one of the cars, according to the MTA."As we're entering 34th Street, you hear her asking, 'Help, help, help,'" passenger Bryanna Brown, who captured the moment […]

(NEW YORK) -- Blood samples showed evidence of past bird flu infections in veterinarians despite the doctors never reporting symptoms or knowing they had been exposed, a new federal report published Thursday afternoon shows.The findings suggest there could be people and animals with bird flu infections in other states that have not yet been identified, the authors said.Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collected blood samples […]