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Hundreds of volunteers have been on the phones at an Air Force base in Colorado, answering questions from eager kids who want to know where Santa is on his storybook Christmas Eve travels. Hundreds of volunteers have been on the phones at an Air Force base in Colorado, answering questions from eager kids who want to know where Santa is on his storybook Christmas Eve travels.
The White House has lost another attempt to put a hold on a requirement that it allow transgender people to enlist in the military starting on Jan. 1. A decision by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is the latest court decision to go against the White House, meaning the issue may end up before the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump tweeted in July that the federal government "will not accept or allow" transgender individuals to serve "in any capacity" in the military.
The White House has lost another attempt to put a hold on a requirement that it allow transgender people to enlist in the military starting on Jan. 1. A decision by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is the latest court decision to go against the White House, meaning the issue may end up before the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump tweeted in July that the federal government "will not accept or allow" transgender individuals to serve "in any capacity" in the military.
President Donald Trump tweeted in July that the federal government "will not accept or allow" transgender individuals to serve "in any capacity" in the military. That would reverse a 2016 policy change under President Barack Obama allowing transgender people to serve openly.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected a Trump Administration request to stay District Judge Kollar-Kotelly's order that the military allow qualified transgender people to enlist beginning January 1. On December 11, District Judge Kollar-Kotelly denied the same request. Both the appeals court and Judge Kollar-Kotelly rejected the Administration's argument that the military would not be prepared to accept transgender recruits by January 1-a claim undercut by a Department of Defense memorandum issued December 8 which lays out guidance for processing transgender enlistees.
In this July 29, 2017 photo transgender U.S. army captain Jennifer Sims lifts her uniform during an interview with The Associated Press in Beratzhausen near Regensburg, Germany. CREDIT: AP Photo/Matthias Schrader President Trump's effort to ban transgender people from joining the military suffered yet another setback Thursday - its first at the appellate level.
A transgender former intern says an apology letter from her to Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico is a fake. Riley Del Rey told The Associated Press on Tuesday she never wrote the letter and Lujan Grisham's office is circulating the bogus letter to divert attention from claims the congresswoman fired her because she is transgender.
Video shows firefighters battling the intense blaze located off of Wyoming at the corner of Marquette Avenue and Vermont Street. Firefighters were called out around 11 p.m. Monday.
Health leaders say they are alarmed about a report that officials at the nation's top public health agency are being told not to use certain words or phrases in official budget documents, including "fetus," ''transgender" and "science-based." The health community was reacting to a story in The Washington Post published late Friday citing an anonymous source who said the prohibition was made at a recent meeting of senior budget officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Health leaders say they are alarmed about a report that officials at the nation's top public health agency are being told not to use certain words or phrases in official budget documents, including "fetus," "transgender" and "science-based." The health community was reacting to a story in The Washington Post published late Friday citing an anonymous source who said the prohibition was made at a recent meeting of senior budget officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A recent UNM graduate says she was fired from an internship in Democratic Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham's office because she is transgender. In this March 17, 2017, file photo, from left, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., and Rep. Nanette Barragan, D-Calif., meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A federal judge denied a renewed bid by the Trump administration to prevent transgender people from joining the U.S. military, ordering Monday that such recruits be allowed to join beginning Jan. 1. The military announced it would begin admitting transgender recruits in light of the latest order by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, which upholds an earlier ruling.
A federal judge on Monday declined the US government's request to put on hold an order allowing transgender individuals to join the military beginning in January. The decision means transgender people will be free to enlist in the new year.
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An alternate juror who sat through a murder trial in a case that sparked a fierce national debate on immigration says he agreed with the jury's decision to acquit a Mexican man of murder in the shooting death of a... An alternate juror who sat through a murder trial in a case that sparked a fierce national debate on immigration says he agreed with the jury's decision to acquit a Mexican man of murder in the shooting death of a San Francisco woman two years ago. A hacker's attack has slowed county government services to a crawl Wednesday in North Carolina's most populous metro area.
Niki Tsongas was first elected in 2007, breaking a decades-long streak of male dominance in the state's congressional delegation. No woman had represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House or Senate for 25 years, since Rep. Margaret Heckler had been defeated.
Many conservatives would scoff at the idea that Attorney Jeff Sessions is President Trump's most effective cabinet member. They would cite his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation , his refusal to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton , and his failure to remember various obscure meetings with Russians, etc.
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis listens as President Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting on Nov. 1. In one case after another involving White House policies, federal judges have questioned the professed motives of President Trump and his surrogates, and have poked gaping holes in arguments by government lawyers. Their rulings are peppered with doubts about the administration's intentions and not-so-subtle jabs at its legal strategy.
Another federal judge has halted a proposed transgender military ban, expanding on an initial ruling issued last month against the plan by President Donald Trump's administration. In a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday in Baltimore, U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis ruled that transgender service members have "demonstrated that they are already suffering harmful consequences" due to the proposed ban including threat of discharge, stigma and the cancellation or delay of surgeries related to their gender transitions.
Virginia Del.-elect Danica Roem , left, and Demi Lovato at the American Music Awards. With Virginia's first openly transgender elected official preparing to take her seat in the House of Delegates, the Republican leader of that chamber says it is time to end a tradition of addressing lawmakers by formal male and female pronouns.