Fourth Circuit becomes first federal appeals court to uphold a state ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, citing last year’s Supreme Court transgender ruling 70 times.
Texas excludes every Islamic school from its $1 billion voucher program while approving Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools, prompting a religious discrimination lawsuit.
Seventeen states sue the Trump administration over a new survey requiring colleges to report years of student data broken down by race, gender and income.
Trump’s State Department nominee Jeremy Carl withdraws after senators pressed him on past comments promoting “white identity” and even Republicans withheld support.
D.C. Bar files ethics complaint against DOJ Pardons Attorney Ed Martin for threatening Georgetown Law over DEI, then trying to derail his own disciplinary investigation.
ProPublica sues Education Department for hiding civil rights records as open discrimination investigations nearly doubled to 24,000 under Secretary McMahon.
New York attorney general orders NYU Langone to resume transgender youth care, telling the hospital its shutdown was “self-imposed” because no federal rule required it.
Leaked database shows National Park Service flagged hundreds of exhibits on slavery, civil rights and climate change under Trump order banning content that “disparages” Americans.
EEOC rules federal agencies can restrict transgender employees from using bathrooms matching their gender identity, overturning 2015 protection.
Hegseth pulls Pentagon-sponsored military education programs from Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale, calling universities centers of “enemy ideologies.”
Pentagon forces Scouting America to roll back DEI programs and launch military service merit badge to keep Defense Department partnership.
U.S. women’s hockey team declines Trump’s State of the Union invitation, one day after he told the men’s team he’d “be impeached” if he didn’t invite them.
NIST restricts foreign scientists’ lab access and cancels hiring plans, threatening the agency that sets U.S. standards for cybersecurity, semiconductors and AI with roughly 800 international researchers annually.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to halt reinstallation of Philadelphia slavery exhibit one day after panels honoring nine people enslaved by George Washington were restored.
Speaker Johnson denies Rev. Jesse Jackson’s family request to lie in honor at the Capitol, months after Republicans held a vigil for Charlie Kirk in the same building’s Statuary Hall.
EEOC files its first workplace diversity lawsuit of Trump’s second term, suing a Coca-Cola distributor for holding a women-only networking event that excluded men.
Hegseth invites Idaho pastor who believes women should not vote to preach at the Pentagon’s monthly prayer service, praising his “willingness to be bold” as service members look on.
Trump administration appeals order to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibits as judge sets Friday deadline and invokes Orwell’s 1984 in ruling.
NYU Langone shuts its transgender youth medical program after Trump administration proposed pulling federal funding from hospitals providing gender care for minors.
Six conservation groups sue Interior Secretary Burgum over removal of hundreds of exhibits on slavery, climate change, and Indigenous history from national parks.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House in Philadelphia, quoting Orwell and comparing government to “Ministry of Truth.”
Maryland’s two largest school districts face backlash for designating Eid al-Fitr as a snow makeup day, drawing criticism that Muslim holidays are treated as expendable.
University of North Texas silently removes an art exhibit critical of ICE, covering its windows and erasing it from university channels without explanation to the artist, students or faculty.
Justice Department sues Harvard for withholding race-related admissions records, escalating a retaliation campaign that has already targeted $2 billion in research grants.
Trump’s nominee for a top State Department post loses Republican support after senators confront him over “Great Replacement” posts, Holocaust minimization, and comments he continued making after being nominated.
Hundreds gather as New York officials re-raise the pride flag at Stonewall National Monument two days after the Trump administration ordered it removed.
Trump administration agrees not to withhold K-12 school funding over DEI programs after 19 state attorneys general sue.
National Park Service removes rainbow Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument, site of the 1969 uprising that launched the modern Pride movement.
Trump administration moves to cut $600 million in CDC-administered public health funding from California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota, calling grants for HIV prevention and disease outbreak management “inconsistent with agency priorities.”
Congressional Black Caucus chair calls Trump administration a “bigoted and racist regime” after video depicting Obamas as primates stayed on Truth Social for 12 hours.
National Park Service pulled brochures from Medgar Evers’ home that called his killer a racist, then returned them hours after Mississippi Today reported the removal.
EEOC sues Nike for information on DEI programs after complaints allege systemic discrimination against white employees.
Trump plans to install reconstructed Columbus statue at White House, rebuilt from pieces protesters dumped in Baltimore harbor in 2020.
HHS has been using Palantir AI tools since March 2025 to screen child welfare grants and job descriptions for DEI and gender ideology phrases.
Kennedy Center lists no Black History Month events for the first time after Trump-installed board renamed venue, drove out artists and lost its programming chief in under two weeks.
Philadelphia seeks injunction to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House under Trump order, with judge calling federal position “a dangerous precedent.”
Kansas Legislature passes bathroom ban targeting transgender people with veto-proof majority, using procedural maneuvers to avoid public hearings.
Philadelphia sues National Park Service to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House, where George Washington brought enslaved people while serving as president.
Trump administration drops appeal of ruling that blocked DEI memos threatening to pull funding from universities and K-12 schools.
University of Pennsylvania refuses federal demand for lists of Jewish faculty, staff and students, calling the request “unconstitutional” and citing history of governmental persecution of Jews.
Justice Department considers loosening gun regulations including easing private sales and shipping restrictions, as the administration pushes to cut 5,000 ATF law enforcement officers.
Texas A&M cancels graduate ethics course three days into semester, demanding professor specify in advance which days he would discuss race and gender.
Education Department opens 18 Title IX investigations into schools with policies allowing transgender athletes, one day after Supreme Court heard arguments on state bans.
EEOC data breach exposed personal information of people who filed discrimination complaints; contractor employees with privileged access mishandled data for nearly a year before discovery.
Texts reveal UVA board members coordinated with Youngkin to end transgender care, dissolve DEI office; one wrote “This is war!” about professor defending diversity programs.
Judge blocks Trump’s $10 billion child care funding freeze in five Democratic states, ordered after viral video targeting Minnesota’s Somali community was found largely untrue.
Heritage Foundation calls for “whole-of-government” promotion of heterosexual marriage and two-child families, pitching government-funded marriage bootcamp as “culture-wide Manhattan Project.”
Federal judge blocks Head Start anti-DEI requirements after HHS demanded providers exclude 197 terms from applications including “Black,” “disability,” “tribal,” and “mental health.”
Texas A&M orders philosophy professor to remove Plato from syllabus, bans books with LGBTQ main characters from core classes as 200 courses flagged or canceled.
Trump withdraws US from 66 international organizations and treaties including UN climate, gender equality, and oceans bodies, claiming they threaten American sovereignty.
