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Since the Supreme Court protected transgender people from discrimination, ‘The backlash has been brutal’

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — When the Supreme Court, led by Justice Neil Gorsuch, ruled in 2020 that federal law protected transgender workers from discrimination, the justices appeared to launch a new era of rights for a historically shunned group. LGBTQ advocates believed the core principle of Bostock v. Clayton County

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A new photographic portrait of US President Donald Trump is being featured at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington

Smithsonian takes down details about Trump’s impeachments from presidential portrait exhibition

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Smithsonian has taken down details about President Donald Trump’s impeachments from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The removal occurred last week when the museum installed a black-and-white portrait of Trump in the “America’s Presidents” exhibition with a short label that notes his birth

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‘It could have killed me’: Minnesota shooting solidifies the anxieties of people who track ICE

By Eric Bradner, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — In every city where President Donald Trump’s immigration agents have arrived in force, they’ve been trailed by people who seek to monitor or protest their activities, often in close quarters. At times, those two groups have collided with tragic results — including an Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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The US carried out large-scale strikes against ISIS targets in Syria on Saturday

US carries out strikes in Syria as part of ongoing retaliation against ISIS

By Aleena Fayaz, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — The US carried out large-scale strikes against ISIS targets in Syria on Saturday tied to an ongoing retaliatory campaign dubbed “Operation Hawkeye Strike.” “Today, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces, alongside partner forces, conducted large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria,”

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President Donald Trump attends a press conference at Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach

Trump says he has canceled a ‘second wave’ of attacks on Venezuela due to country’s cooperation with US

By Jack Guy, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said early Friday that he had cancelled a “previously expected” second wave of attacks on Venezuela due to the country’s cooperation with the United States. It comes nearly a week after he ordered a military operation to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is

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Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives for a briefing with bicameral congressional leadership at the U.S. Capitol on January 05

What’s behind the highly unusual move to block Minnesota officials from investigating ICE shooting

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Mutual distrust between federal and state authorities derailed plans for a joint FBI and state criminal investigation into Wednesday’s shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer, leading to the highly unusual move by the Justice Department to block state investigators from participating in

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