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The State Department issued new guidance on passports with “X” sex markers and applications that request to change a passport sex marker, according to a memo reviewed by NBC News.The new guidance comes after the State Department suspended all applications for passports and CRBAs, which are birth records for U.S. citizens born abroad, that request an “X” sex marker or a sex marker change, following a memo last month from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The policy change resulted in widespread confusion, particularly among the transgender community, about whether passports with an “X” sex marker would be valid for international travel…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports. The measure, called the “No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order,” is the fourth executive order targeting transgender people he has signed since he took office Jan. 20.“The radical left has waged an all-out campaign to erase the very concept of biological sex and replace it with a militant transgender ideology,” Trump said from a podium at the White House, with dozens of women and girls standing behind him. “With this executive order, the war on women’s sports is over.”Trump also gave…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia reached out to Elon Musk on the tech billionaire’s X platform this week, telling him federal prosecutors were at his service should workers at his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) face any threats. “Dear @elon, Please see this important letter,” Ed Martin wrote Monday. “We will not tolerate threats against DOGE workers or law-breaking by the disgruntled.” In the attached letter, Martin wrote that it was “good to work with the DOGE team” over the weekend, and he asked Musk to “utilize me and my staff to assist…
(The Center Square) – During a U.S. Senate hearing, Republican Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho voiced his support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Secretary of Health and Human Services, highlighting his dedication to healthcare transparency and reform.Crapo emphasized Kennedy’s lifelong advocacy against chronic illness and his commitment to ensuring greater transparency for both patients and taxpayers.Kennedy, who underwent a rigorous confirmation process, answered over 900 committee questions and made additional amendments to his ethics agreement beyond government requirements. His responses and actions, Crapo stated, demonstrate his commitment to the role.”Mr. Kennedy has proven his commitment to the role…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s decision this week to detain some immigrants at the detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that was created after 9/11 for holding prisoners accused of terrorism is the beginning of a broader plan to hold more immigrants in the high-security prison, rather than the previously constructed low-level detention space for immigrants, six people familiar with the plans told NBC News.The plan is to expand the prison so that immigrants can be held not only inside the prison facility, but also in tent camps surrounded by fencing that have not been completely built, according…
In 1868, Secretary of State William Seward went on a territory-shopping spree. A year earlier, Seward had negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. If Seward’s acquisition of Alaska hadn’t been politically branded as a “folly,” he may have gotten his wish to add Greenland (and Iceland) to the expanding United States.America’s longstanding interest in Greenland and other northern territories—including Canada—was about expanding U.S. control over North America and the increasingly important arctic region, according to Ron Doel, a historian at Florida State University.“What’s interesting is that so much of U.S. ideology usually involved looking West,” says…
When the Supreme Court ruled in the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case to strip Black Americans of any citizenship rights, and open the door to expanding slavery in the U.S., the decision galvanized the nation’s abolitionist movement.With heightened urgency to end slavery for 4 million Black Americans, some abolitionists, such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, invoked a moral imperative in pushing for government action. Others saw emigration as the only route to freedom. Still others, like John Brown, were moved to violence. Who Was Dred Scott and What Was His Case About?In 1846, Dred Scott and his wife…
(The Center Square) — New Jersey is backing away from several major offshore wind projects as the Trump administration seeks to pull federal leases for the clean energy initiatives. Gov. Phil Murphy announced this week that New Jersey won’t be providing financial support for a pair of offshore wind projects, including the Atlantic Shores South project, which was given a green light by the U.S. Department of the Interior last year. The project had called for installing 200 wind turbines less than nine miles off the New Jersey coast — providing enough electricity to power more than 1 million homes.In a statement,…
One of the special privileges of being the president of the United States is that people have to take what you say seriously no matter how bananas. So it is with President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Washington facilitate the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and then, when that task is accomplished, own the territory. The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians needs new ideas, and Gaza, in particular, presents a set of extremely difficult problems, but Trump’s proposal is not just morally bankrupt—it is sheer lunacy. Where to begin? One of the special privileges of being the president of the…
A major trade war between the United States and Canada has been averted after US President Donald Trump agreed to hold off on imposing a 25 percent tariff for 30 days. But anger has erupted in Canada, with people calling for a boycott of US products, and some even calling to stop the export of oil to the country’s southern neighbour. However, blocking crude oil flow to the US could inflict an enormous economic cost on Canada, which pumps nearly all of its crude oil to the US via a network of pipelines. Moreover, it would take some time for…