NCAA's 'sport-by-sport approach to transgender participation' stirs debate
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A new NCAA policy allowing the national governing body for each sport to determine the eligibility of transgender athletes has come under fire by observers on the various sides of a highly charged debate over participation in college sports.
The policy, announced late Wednesday, comes as University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas -- scheduled to compete at Harvard University on Saturday -- is setting record times on the women's team this season. She had previously competed on the men's swimming team at Penn and underwent two years of hormone therapy.
Now Thomas is being hailed as one of the best women's collegiate swimmers in the country, with her rapid success prompting both praise and criticism in the swimming world.
Trump has been back in the White House for a year now, and his standing — more than anything else — will define the mood and the direction of the midterm campaign. Ebersole scores his performance at a 3 out of 5. The economy feels a little better to her, and illegal border crossings are down.
Demonstrators are continuing to brave frigid temperatures in Minneapolis to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Follow for live updates.
Speaker Mike Johnson is actively working to unite his conference behind another Republican-only policy bill ahead of the midterms, with members clamoring for more wins and eager not waste what they fear could be the waning days of their majority.
Last year, the court said the Fed is shielded from political manipulation because it is “uniquely structured” with a “distinct historical tradition.”
President Trump says he can pull funding for sanctuary cities. Judges have repeatedly said otherwise
Trump’s threat is a broader version of one his administration has made many times already, attempting to cut funding to local governments it declared as “sanctuary jurisdictions,” but those efforts have been stopped repeatedly by judges.
The US Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A number of forces on the left questioned Josh Shapiro’s ties to Israel during Kamala Harris’ rushed running mate selection process in 2024. In his new memoir out next week, the Pennsylvania governor says the former vice president and her vetting team were among them.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address at 1963’s March on Washington is perhaps the most famous speech in American history. But fewer people remember the man behind King’s dream metaphor: a White banker named James Truslow Adams.
Members of President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, will receive a permanent seat if they pay $1 billion, according to a US official.
The announcement Saturday night signaled an unusually direct effort by the White House to influence college football scheduling and television programming.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced a state of catastrophe in two regions in the south of the country early on Sunday as raging wildfires forced at least 20,000 people to evacuate and left at least 16 people dead.
The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for deployment to Minnesota, according to defense officials cited by The Washington Post and ABC News, as Minnesota officials have also mobilized the National Guard.
The Democratic Party has a deeply motivated base and a clear advantage on the generic congressional ballot ahead of this fall’s midterms despite dismal impressions of its current leaders in Congress, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.