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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller (L) and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi talk to reporters during an Oval Office availability with U.S. President Donald Trump on August 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After decades of political inaction after mass shootings, the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting appears to finally have spurred conservatives into action. That’s …

Gun rights groups took aim Friday at the Trump administration’s reported consideration of a plan to restrict transgender Americans from owning firearms — claiming such a proposal is a nonstarter. The National Rifle Association insists the Second Amendment “isn’t up for debate” as senior Justice Department officials have reportedly held internal deliberations about issuing regulations restricting transgender individuals from possessing …

Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman dumped her girlfriend just weeks before murdering children at a Catholic school, the Daily Mail can reveal. The 23-year-old transgender shooter had been dating Abigail Bodick, 22, for several years, before suddenly breaking it off and falsely blaming her as the ‘root of my suffering’ in a twisted manifesto made up of journal entries. Deranged Westman branded …

Part of the magic of portraiture is how it renders so much of the human experience accessible to us, things we might never see otherwise. This has been very much on Black artist Amy Sherald’s mind. When I spoke to her in advance of the debut of her exhibition American Sublime, she told me that Black representation was foundational to …

Fox News host Jesse Watters. (Jemal Countess/Tribune News Service) The conservative rhetoric doesn’t square with the statistics. According to Gun Violence Archive, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that collects data from more than 7,500 law enforcement sources daily, only 1.1% of mass-shooting suspects over the past decade were transgender, roughly proportional with the overall population of transgender people. Data gathered by …

Three months after a group of climbers hung a transgender pride flag from El Capitan, an iconic rock formation in Yosemite, the National Park Service fired a park ranger who was involved in the display, the former employee said. Shannon “SJ” Joslin was terminated last week after working for nearly five years as a ranger and wildlife biologist at the …

Former Swarthmore track and field athlete Evelyn Parts sued Swarthmore College, several athletic department officials and the NCAA on Thursday, claiming they discriminated against her because she is a transgender woman. The lawsuit, which was filed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claims that the defendants violated Parts’ Title IX rights, inflicted emotional distress and engaged in a civil conspiracy. …

Alyx, a transgender woman who has served in the Air Force for 15 years, was approved in May for early retirement due to the Trump administration’s policy prohibiting trans people from serving and enlisting in the military. On Wednesday, that retirement was revoked under a new Air Force directive. She said she wasn’t provided any reason other than that her …

The Department of Homeland Security will update visa policies to prevent transgender women from traveling to the United States to participate in elite women’s sporting events. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued guidance Monday intended to bar trans women athletes from obtaining “extraordinary ability” visas to compete in female sports, the conservative news website The Daily Wire first reported. The …

States sue Trump admin over trans care access  Axios Attorney General Bonta Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Unlawful Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care  State of California – Department of Justice (.gov) States sue Trump administration after more hospitals stop treating transgender youth : Shots – Health News  NPR States sue Trump, saying he is intimidating hospitals over gender-affirming care for youth  AP News States Sue …