8 h. ago Supreme Court takes blockbuster case on trans student athletes

Attorneys for trans teen who challenged state-level bans say she ‘just wants to play sports with her friends and peers’

Events

9 h. ago Supreme Court rejects Montana's bid to revive parental consent law for minors' abortions

The Supreme Court won't hear a case involving a push to revive a law that minors must have their parents’ permission for an abortion in Montana

Society

9 h. ago US supreme court to weigh transgender student sports bans in key rights case

Justices will hear Idaho and West Virginia appeals on laws barring trans girls from female public school teamsThe US supreme court announced on Thursday that it will consider a bid by West Virginia and Idaho to enforce their state laws banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public sector schools.The decision means the court is prepared to take up another civil rights challenge to Republican-backed restrictions on transgender people. Continue reading...

Events

11 h. ago ‘Accelerated censorship’: advocates criticise US supreme court ruling on LGBTQ+ books

Opponents say the decision allowing parents to let their kids opt out of lessons featuring LGBTQ+ themes will hurt the US education systemKiernan, a 24-year-old transgender person from Colorado, feels drained from dealing with legislation that consistently limits the spaces and freedoms of people like him. Since he transitioned in 2016, it’s been the same – first bathroom bills, then censorship in the education system – routine attacks on LGBTQ+ rights that Kiernan feels have now just become part of living in the US.Now, in the wake of the Mahmoud v Taylor supreme court ruling, the stigmatization of these communities is likely to worsen. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago ‘Accelerated censorship’: advocates criticize US supreme court ruling on LGBTQ+ books

Opponents say the decision allowing parents to let their kids opt out of lessons featuring LGBTQ+ themes will hurt the US education systemKiernan, a 24-year-old transgender person from Colorado, feels drained from dealing with legislation that consistently limits the spaces and freedoms of people like him. Since he transitioned in 2016, it’s been the same – first bathroom bills, then censorship in the education system – routine attacks on LGBTQ+ rights that Kiernan feels have now just become part of living in the US.Now, in the wake of the Mahmoud v Taylor supreme court ruling, the stigmatization of these communities is likely to worsen. Continue reading...

Events

33 h. ago Banker wins Supreme Court divorce battle over £80m he gave ex

Judges have issued their ruling on a bitter divorce battle over £80m retired sheep-farming tycoon and ex-CFO of UBS Clive Standish gave his wife to avoid inheritance tax

Economics

36 h. ago UK Supreme Court divorce case sets precedent for dividing up assets

Former UBS CFO transferred investments worth £78mn to his wife but argued they had not become ‘matrimonialised’

Events

37 h. ago The supreme court is cracking down on judges – and letting Trump run wild | Steven Greenhouse

The justices’ decision limiting judicial injunctions gives a red light to the most effective check on the president’s power grabEver since Donald Trump returned to power, he has carried out an unprecedented assault against the country’s rule of law. But we can be thankful that one group of people – federal district court judges – have bravely stood up to him and his many illegal actions.His excesses include gutting federal agencies, deporting immigrants without due process, seeking to cut thousands of federal jobs despite their legal protections, and ordering an end to birthright citizenship. Intent on upholding the constitution and rule of law, district court judges have issued more than 190 orders blocking or temporarily pausing Trump actions they considered illegal. Their decisions have slowed the US president’s wrecking ball as it demolishes federal agencies, devastates foreign aid, decimates scientific research and demoralizes government employees.Steven Greenhouse is a journal...

Events

53 h. ago Legislation ‘forthcoming’ to stop Adams internment compensation – Benn

A Supreme Court judgment in 2020 paved the way for the ex-Sinn Fein president to secure compensation over his internment without trial in the 1970s.

Politics

58 h. ago Planned Parenthood may not survive the Trump administration | Moira Donegan

The Trump administration has made repeated cuts targeting the organization’s clinics. Now the US supreme court has struck another blowPlanned Parenthood, the massive, 108-year-old network of women’s and reproductive health clinics that operates almost 600 health centers across the United States, may not survive the Trump administration. Long a hated symbol on the right, and unable to summon enthusiastic support from the left, the medical network has nevertheless remained a symbolic and material cornerstone of women’s equality, serving millions of patients – many of them indigent or low-income – each year, and housing one of the biggest feminist and pro-choice lobbying and litigation shops in America, in addition to being one of the nation’s largest healthcare providers.Since returning to power in January, the Trump administration has made repeated cuts targeting Planned Parenthood’s clinics, excluding the group from the vast Title X family planning program, on the pretext of scurril...

Politics

64 h. ago Trans charity demands investigation into EHRC following Supreme Court ruling on gender

Exclusive: Leading trans campaign group files formal complaint over EHRC conduct

Events

3 d. ago Federal judge seeks clarity on whether birthright citizenship order means babies could be deported

A federal judge is questioning when the Trump administration will try to enforce its birthright citizenship executive order

Events

3 d. ago Judge again delays Abrego Garcia’s release from Tennessee jail over deportation concerns

A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that Kilmar Abrego Garcia will stay in jail for now over concerns that he could be deported if he’s released

Events

3 d. ago No state is safe: Trans people are planning to move overseas rather than live in Trump’s America

Conservatives’ increasingly frenzied attacks on trans rights have made many people feel the USA is no longer safe for them — and the Court’s ruling in US v Skrmetti is just the latest ‘domino’, Io Dodds reports

Politics

3 d. ago Supreme Court throws out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in 4 states

The Supreme Court has thrown out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths

Events

3 d. ago As Trump targets birthright citizenship, the terrain is once again ‘women’s bodies and sexuality’

From 22 Chinese women detained in 1874 for being ‘lewd and debauched’, experts point to a grim US traditionOne day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, five pregnant immigrant women – led by an asylum seeker from Venezuela – sued over the president’s executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship, out of fear that their unborn children would be left stateless.The case went before the supreme court, which sided with the Trump administration Friday by restricting the ability of federal judges to block the order. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Greece bans all sea travel due to gale force winds as Turkey flights hit by cancellations

Authorities have banned all movements on the sea around key Greek ports amid wild weather which has also caused a travel chaos in Turkey where flights were cancelled

Events

3 d. ago Broadcasters should air the view that trans women are women, media watchdog suggests

Media watchdog Ofcom reportedly told GB News that trans issues should not be seen as 'settled' despite the Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman should be based on their sex at birth.

Politics

3 d. ago Broadcasters must air the view that trans women are women, media watchdog says

Media watchdog Ofcom reportedly told GB News that trans issues should not be seen as 'settled' despite the Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman should be based on their sex at birth.

Politics

4 d. ago ‘No one is coming to save us’: Trans people are planning to move overseas rather than live in Trump’s America

Conservatives’ increasingly frenzied attacks on trans rights have made many people feel the USA is no longer safe for them — and the Court’s ruling in US v Skrmetti is just the latest ‘domino’, Io Dodds reports

Politics