PFLAG National, a nonprofit LGBTQ advocacy group, on Wednesday asked a Texas court to block a request from the state attorney general’s office to hand over information related to its support of transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care. The organization in a lawsuit filed late Wednesday in Texas district court alleges Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R)...
The House on Thursday voted to extend the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) funding authority, marking the third extension in recent months for the reauthorization bill. The bill, formally titled the Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2024, passed in a bipartisan 401-19 vote Thursday. It will extend the FAA’s funding authorities until May 10 and...
Meta is partnering with LG Electronics to “expedite” the social media company’s plans for extended reality (XR) and to promote other artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. LG announced that its top management met with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Seoul on Wednesday, where they discussed the next generation of XR “device developments.” The electronics company, headquartered...
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll expressed “very serious concerns” Thursday that she won't be able to collect the $83 million from former President Trump that a jury awarded in Carroll’s defamation lawsuit last month, citing Trump’s various legal woes. “He simply asks the Court to ‘trust me’ and offers, in a case with an $83.3...
The House passed a stopgap funding bill Thursday that would avert a shutdown this weekend by punting a pair of funding deadlines later into March. The Senate will now need to take up the legislation. Also on Thursday, President Biden and former President Trump are making dueling trips to the U.S.-Mexico border as immigration remains...
The House on Thursday approved a short-term funding bill to avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, sending the legislation to the Senate one day before Friday’s funding deadline. The legislation — which cleared the chamber in a 320-99 vote — kicks the two government funding deadlines to March 8 and March 22, buying lawmakers...
The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday giving in vitro fertilization (IVF) service providers civil and criminal immunity from prosecution or legal action related to the "goods and services" they provide, just weeks after the state's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under the law. The bill passed the...
Gerard Catala, president of the Providence NAACP, was convicted of violating Rhode Island state campaign finance laws when he ran for City Council in 2022 in a judge's decision Wednesday.