On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a comprehensive executive order addressing kids' transition-related medical care. The directive, Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation, aims to prevent minors—defined as individuals under the age of 19—from receiving gender-affirming medical care, such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, and surgery. It restricts research and education funds to hospitals and medical schools, forbids federal funding from paying for such care for children, and instructs the secretary of health and human services to develop regulations to stop such care for minors. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, is a nonprofit organization that focuses on transgender medical treatment and publishes guidance that is frequently...

The state education board passed new rules Tuesday requiring families to show proof of U.S. citizenship when enrolling children in public schools in Oklahoma. The governor and the legislature would need to approve the proposed regulation, which would mandate that school districts keep track of the number of children who are unable to confirm their immigrant status and submit those numbers to the Oklahoma State Department of Education. At the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, state superintendent Ryan Walters stated that our law regarding illegal immigration accounting is simply to account for the number of pupils who are illegal immigrants in our schools. Dozens of Oklahoma City kids demonstrated outside the building against Walters' immigration policies and demanded th...

As voters choose nominees in two congressional districts in the state, state senator Randy Fine, who has been endorsed by Trump, handily won a special House primary in northwest Florida on Tuesday, positioning him to fill a deep-red, open seat. Shortly after the district's votes closed at 7 p.m. Eastern, the Associated Press predicted that Fine would win the GOP primary, with more than 80% of the vote counted. The state lawmaker sought to replace former Representative Mike Waltz and received support from both House Republican leaders and President Donald Trump. Earlier this month, Waltz left the House to serve as Trump's national security adviser. In 2024, Waltz won the seat by 33 points. However, since adding more members will offer them a little more breathing room in a legislature that ...

Around six in the morning on Tuesday, the manager of a Bronx building was awakened by phone calls from worried tenants of an apartment complex. The property manager, who wished to remain anonymous, told NBC News, "They were telling me that ICE was there." As part of the Trump administration's increased push to increase deportations and make them highly visible, targeting major cities and publicizing the actions, Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently conducted raids in New York, drawing the attention of locals and business owners who were taken aback by the early morning activity. On social media, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noemann said she was there when ICE and other law enforcement agents detained at least one undocumented individual in the Bronx apartment complex in the H...

After being charged with referring to a Muslim seventh-grader as a terrorist, a middle school teacher in Pennsylvania resigned. The school district said in a statement on Tuesday that the teacher had offered her resignation, which had been accepted earlier this evening. According to a press statement from the human rights organization Council on American-Islamic Relations, the incident is believed to have occurred at Harrisburg's Central Dauphin Middle School on January 16 after the kid requested that the instructor switch seats. According to CAIR, which identified the student as Palestinian Lebanese American, the teacher informed the student, "I do not negotiate with terrorists." At a press conference on Monday night, the boy's father, Adam Rahman, stated that although his son is doing we...

Washington Jim Justice, the new Republican senator from West Virginia, is already a sight to behold in the Capitol. He is six feet seven inches tall, rides a bright red mobility scooter, and is always accompanied by his 62-pound bulldog, Babydog. However, unlike his predecessor, don't count on him to begin his tenure in Washington as a crucial swing vote. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who later became an independent, was one of the most powerful and erratic senators before Justice took his seat. Manchin was a nonpartisan negotiator who helped pass important laws like the Inflation Reduction Act, which appropriated funds for projects in his state, but he also frequently irritated his party by splitting with Democrats over important issues. Justice is currently more likely to follow his par...

In a courthouse in central Manhattan, the trial of three men who prosecutors claim enabled a robbery and drugging conspiracy that terrorized gay bars in New York City and resulted in two fatalities got underway Wednesday. Between March 2021 and June 2022, Jayqwan Hamilton, 36; Robert Demaio, 35; and Jacob Barroso, 30 are charged with conspiring to drug and rob five men after they met them outside of gay bars and nightclubs in Manhattan. In the spring of 2022, prosecutors claimed that the offenses resulted in the deaths of political strategist John Umberger, 33, and social worker Julio Ramirez, 25. The crimes were not made widely known until May 2022, over a year after the plan started, when Ramirez's unexplained death was covered by NBC News. Hamilton, Demaio, and Barroso entered not guilt...

Around six in the morning on Tuesday, the manager of a Bronx building was awakened by phone calls from worried tenants of an apartment complex. The property manager, who wished to remain anonymous, told NBC News, "They were telling me that ICE was there." Residents and business owners were taken aback by the early-morning action, and New York was one of the most recent places where Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out raids. The Trump administration's increased efforts to increase deportations and make them more visible, focusing on big cities and making the acts public, include the raids in various regions of New York City. On social media, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noemann said she was there when ICE and other law enforcement agents detained at least one undocumented ...

Now that the Year of the Snake has begun, the atmosphere is one of rebirth and revitalization. Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam, and other celebrations are all part of the Lunar New Year, which starts on January 29 and lasts for more than two weeks. According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the celebration, also called the Spring Festival, commemorates the coming of spring and the beginning of a new year. The snake is a celebrated and revered symbol in the Eastern hemisphere, despite its negative reputation in many Western civilizations. And if people are willing to move on, this year should be one of positive change as they slither into new beginnings. According to Jonathan H. X. Lee, an Asian and Asian American studies professor at San Francisco State University whos...