Democratic attorneys general and others are accusing President Donald Trump of intimidating hospitals into dropping gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The claim in a lawsuit comes after a wave of hospital systems said in July that they're ending aspects of the care. The states that are suing are focused on the administration's civil and criminal enforcement efforts that target providers. Most GOP-controlled states have laws banning the care already, so the new decisions to halt treatment are hitting patients in blue states. The suspended care has sent families with transgender young people scrambling for care.
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FILE - Protesters chant slogans while demonstrating against the closure of the trans youth clinic at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, July 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
FILE - President Donald Trump signs an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women's or girls' sporting events, in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - Liv Y., center, holds a transgender pride flag as people gather to protest against the Trump administration and Project 2025 near the Washington State Capitol building, in in Olympia, Wash., Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Federal immigration judges fired by the Trump administration are filing appeals, pursuing legal action and speaking out in an unusually public campaign to fight for their jobs. More than 50 immigration judges have been fired since Donald Trump assumed the presidency for the second time. Normally bound by courtroom decorum, many are now unrestrained in describing terminations they consider unlawful and why they believe they were targeted. Their suspected reasons include racial and gender discrimination, decisions on immigration cases highlighted by the Trump administration and a courthouse tour with the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat.
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FILE - AB Hernandez, a transgender student at Jurupa Valley High School, competes in the high jump at the California high school track-and-field championships in Clovis, Calif., May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
The data nerds are fighting back.
TOKYO (AP) — A fringe far-right populist party Sanseito was one of the biggest winners in the weekend's upper house election, attracting many …
Exit polls suggest Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's coalition is likely to lose a majority its majority in the smaller of Japan’s two parliamentary houses in a key election. Voters decided on half of the 248 seats in the upper house Sunday. Projections show the coalition could win as few as 32 seats. That would be a significant drop from its preelection total of 141. The upper house can't force a government change. But the results deepen political uncertainty. Rising prices, stagnant wages and social security concerns dominated voter frustrations. Emerging populist parties like Sanseito have gained traction with anti-foreigner rhetoric.
A Chinese university announced the expulsion of a female student for “damaging national dignity” after she was accused of “improper interactio…