Federal judge blocks Trump administration rule stripping away transgender health care protections

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Pentagon is reportedly ordering the shut down of the venerable military newspaper Stars and Stripes, with President Donald Trump seeking total defunding of the 159-year-old independent publication, according to a report in USA Today.USA Today contributor Kathy Kiely cited a recent Pentagon memo that ordered the Stars and Stripes publisher to present a plan by Sept.

A federal judge in Georgia last week ruled the State Department must recognize the U.S. citizenship of the daughter of a gay couple who was born via surrogate.

essay published Thursday in The Atlantic.Carrey specifically highlighted the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling the final night of last week’s Republican National Convention, which was held on the South Lawn of the White House, a “Totally Illegal COVID-19 Super-Spreader Spectacular.”“Those in the audience on the South Lawn of the White House might have believed their lives were their own to lose, but after their big night, they now risk infecting other Americans,” he

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Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerSarah Palin’s defamation suit against the New York Times can move forward, a federal judge said on Friday.US District Court Judge Jed Rakoff rejected the Times bid to dismiss the suit, which arose over a 2017 editorial Palin claims wrongly linked her to the 2011 mass shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Palin was a 2008 Vice Presidential candidate and is a former Governor of Alaska.Rakoff today said there was “sufficient evidence to allow a rational

Maybe making Heidi Klum the butt of your joke isn’t the best “America’s Got Talent” strategy.

TikTok is moving forward with their lawsuit against the Trump Administration, Variety reports.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPresident Trump exceeded his legal authority in issuing an executive order that would ban TikTok in the U.S., the Chinese-owned app company said in a lawsuit Monday against the administration.That’s because Trump’s ban is “not based on a bona fide national emergency and authorizes the prohibition of activities that have not been found to pose ‘an unusual and extraordinary threat,'” as required under U.S.

ProPublica. “It sends a message when an overarching umbrella policy that is supposed to inform all of USAID’s practices and initiatives is missing those factors,” Gayatri Patel, the director of gender advocacy at CARE, a humanitarian organization, said of the LGBTQ omissions.According to ProPublica, the omission of LGBTQ mentions sparked an internal email exchange among USAID officials, with some noting their exclusion.

said Trump’s executive order unfairly targets the popular video app “without any evidence to justify such an extreme action, and without any due process.”The lawsuit comes a little more than a week after Trump ordered Bytedance to sell TikTok’s U.S.

Donald Trump and his administration.It comes after the US President ordered a ban of “transactions” with the owners of TikTok and fellow Chinese app WeChat earlier this month.The order states that the app has 45 days to find a new US-based owner or else Trump will ban the use of the social media platform nationwide.

The Trump administration has removed references to LGBTQ people from official government documents.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), the only out lesbian in the U.S. Senatte, made a plea Thursday for voters to elect Joe Biden and oust President Trump in a speech heavily drawing on inequalities in wealth and health care.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok has a message for Donald Trump: See you in court.The short-form video app company, currently owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, confirmed that it plans to file a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Trump’s Aug.

Also Read: Trump Orders TikTok Must Be Sold Within 90 DaysOn Aug. 14, Trump issued an executive order telling ByteDance to sell the popular video app’s U.S.

Had Sharon Stone not put her foot down years ago concerning an Australian actor she wanted in her film, Russell Crowe may never have become a household name in American. While visiting Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday to promote his recent film, Unhinged, Crowe reminisced about the importance of Stone getting him cast in 1995’s Western The Quick and the Dead, on which she was the star and a producer.

Ted Johnson Miles Taylor didn’t have a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention, but he’s certainly garnered attention for a video in which he endorsed Joe Biden and warned of Donald Trump’s behavior.ABC News’ Good Morning America got the first interview with Taylor since he wrote a Washington Post op ed and appeared in a video for the group Republican Voters Against Trump.Taylor, who was chief of staff to then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, told George Stephanopoulos

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Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerA lawsuit brought by two songwriters who claimed they cowrote the Lizzo hit Truth Hurts has been dismissed by a federal judge.Brothers Justin and Jeremiah Raisen claimed they created Truth Hurts as a derivative work based on a song called Healthy that they created with Lizzo in 2017, two years before she broke out.Lizzo claimed that the line “I just did a DNA test turns out I’m a hundred percent that bitch” was the only item to come out of the session with the