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Transgender surgery on minors is facing increasing pushback from medical professionals and state-level efforts to silence counselors, and may eventually be viewed with the same horror as lobotomies from decades ago.

Most of the nation's leading news organizations have said they will not sign a policy severely restricting journalists' access to the Pentagon ahead of a Tuesday deadline set by the Trump administration. Outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Hill and NewsNation will not sign the policy, which limits access...

"Why are they targeting a clarinet player? A clarinet player standing on the sidewalk far away from the street, following instructions."

The U.S. Congress has gradually ceded its powers to the president, resulting in a weakened legislative branch and a shift in the balance of powers.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is championing the kind of hardline stances in the government shutdown fight long favored by the House Freedom Caucus. The Speaker has canceled previously scheduled votes in the lower chamber and kept the House in extended recess as he aims to put maximum pressure on Senate Democrats to accept the “clean” stopgap to re-open...

President Trump criticized Time Magazine early Tuesday over its new cover photo of him, shot from below, so that his neck is featured prominently and light from the sun makes the wisps of hair above his forehead appear transparent. The president, on his Truth Social platform, said that while the outlet’s story on his administration’s...

This war on drugs is just beginning and it is not like Richard Nixon’s public enemy number one strategy or Ronald Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign.

The firing squad is now Idaho's primary method of execution. Other states should follow suit. 

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Tuesday formally launched her bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), teeing up the latest high-profile primary to pit establishment and populist factions of the Democratic Party against each other. Mills launched her campaign after much prodding from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). But prominent progressives like Sen....

EMILY’s List, a major Democratic group that backs Democratic women candidates who support abortion access, announced on Tuesday that it’s backing Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) in the Senate contest to take on Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) next year. “This moment demands someone with backbone and grit, someone who has proven she will fight Trump head...

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm on the rising number of drug-resistant bacterial infections.

The shutdown is delaying inflation data that will determine the Social Security COLA — but it's still coming this month.

A winning lottery ticket that won half of $1.8 billion jackpot has been claimed by a lottery trust in Fredericksburg.

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which looks to elect Democrats in state legislatures, announced on Tuesday that it’s making a new six-figure investment in the New Jersey Assembly races ahead of next month, according to plans first shared with The Hill. The DLCC made an initial five-figure investment in those races in August, and the...