The California Assembly Judiciary Committee will hear a controversial bill, AB 957, which aims to encourage state judges to disregard parental objections to gender and name changes for minors who identify as transgender, sparking a heated debate on parental rights and the role of government in family matters.
Republican Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is leading a bill to overturn a Department of Defense (DOD) policy from February that funds travel for pregnant troops to other states for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
The world’s number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has withdrawn from the Miami Open and the U.S. Open because he is still banned from entering the country owing to his vaccination status.
An Arizona high school has a policy allowing transgender students to change in their preferred locker rooms and telling female students to use alternative facilities if they are uncomfortable.
A Chinese rocket's second stage that launched three military surveillance satellites in June broke up over Texas with a debris field that could be several hundred miles long.
Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testified that COVID-19 most likely originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, citing unusual events that occurred in September 2019.
A federal judge in Florida has blocked President Biden's policy of releasing many people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexican border rather than detaining them, stating that it violates U.S. immigration law.
