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The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the legality of Tennessee’s 2023 law banning gender transition procedures for minors. The case has become a flashpoint in the national debate over transgender rights, parental authority, and the state’s role in protecting children from controversial medical treatments.

Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph, who previously faced felony charges for allegedly aiding an illegal migrant’s escape from federal immigration authorities, is once again under scrutiny. The Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct filed formal charges Monday, accusing Joseph of “willful judicial misconduct” and actions “unbecoming” of a judicial officer. The charges are now before the state Supreme Judicial Court.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a pivotal case challenging Tennessee’s 2023 ban on gender-affirming care for minors to include hormone treatments and puberty blockers.

A Yale University report released Tuesday alleges that Russia has forcibly adopted at least 314 Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied regions since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine

A judge ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to turn over all communications with Jack Smith and the January 6 Committee.

Special counsel David Weiss has asked a California federal court not to dismiss the tax charges against Hunter Biden, despite President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son. In a motion filed Monday, Weiss argued that the charges should remain on the public record, even if the case is formally closed.

Kenya's High Court has temporarily suspended diplomatic immunity for the Gates Foundation. The move follows the Law Society of Kenya filing a challenge against the government for granting immunity to the Foundation.

Abortions in Michigan reached their highest levels since 1990 after the state declared them a "fundamental right."

A new federal complaint filed in the Central District of California alleges that Shenghua Wen and unnamed co-conspirators "successfully exported at least two shipments of firearms and ammunition to North Korea by concealing the items inside shipping containers that were shipped from Long Beach, California, through Hong Kong, China, to North Korea."

Chase Strangio, a transgender-identifying lawyer and co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) LGBT & HIV Project, will argue before the Supreme Court this week in a high-stakes case regarding gender transitions for minors. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, challenges Tennessee's law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children.