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'They need to do a lot more': New Florida rules won't fix Brightline's deadly tracks
15+ hour, 50+ min ago Listen to the podcast series Killer Train'here, or find it on your favorite podcast platform. Other stories in the WLRN / Miami Herald reporting series can be found'here. Florida officials know exactly how to reduce train deaths. The blueprint is in…...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
2+ day, 16+ hour ago Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, who leads Medicaid and Medicare, announced measures Thursday that will essentially ban gender-affirming care for transgender young people. RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young…...
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
3+ day, 13+ hour ago The Trump administration is expected to announce several moves Thursday that will have the effect of essentially banning gender-affirming care for transgender young people, even in states where it is still legal. Makary and Bhattacharya are also expected to make…...
Egypt and Iran object to playing in a Seattle 'Pride' match in next year's World Cup
1+ week, 4+ day ago Officials in Egypt and Iran are protesting the scheduling of a FIFA World Cup match between the two teams next June in Seattle, where local organizers had planned Pride festivities around the match. Both Middle Eastern countries are culturally conservative....
Mosaic Says Road Fight 'Moot"
2+ week, 15+ hour ago Mosaic urged the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss as "moot" a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity challenging the project. The environmental group filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which last year approved the use…...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
2+ week, 2+ day ago Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health "and I'm not going to comment on this type of petty action." NPR asked HHS who made the change and why....
For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day
2+ week, 6+ day ago President Trump has nothing planned for this year and the State Department has instructed employees not to mark the day. Tommy Pigott, a spokesperson for the State Department, confirmed the decision not to commemorate the day, writing in a statement…...
Supreme Court won't hear appeal by Tampa school in pregame prayer case
1+ mon, 4+ day ago The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal by Tampa's Cambridge Christian School, which contended its speech rights were violated when it was prevented from offering a prayer over a stadium loudspeaker before a 2015 state championship football…...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
1+ mon, 1+ week ago U.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. From a Baltimore hotel ballroom, the bishops overwhelmingly…...
Books about race and gender to be returned to school libraries on some military bases
2+ mon, 13+ hour ago A federal judge ordered the Department of Defense Monday to return books about gender and race back to five school libraries on military bases. In April, 12 students at schools on military bases in Virginia, Kentucky, Italy and Japan claimed their…...