Federal appeals court lifts the block on Mississippi’s school DEI ban and takes the case from the judge whose clerk’s AI use put fabricated names in an order.
Trump administration drops appeals of rulings striking its plan to cut off loan forgiveness for workers at groups aiding undocumented immigrants and transgender youth.
Supreme Court blocks Trump from cutting off hormone therapy for transgender federal prisoners, after letting him ban transgender troops.
Justice Department closes 18 civil rights probes of the University of North Carolina as the school agrees to “color-blind” admissions, antisemitism training and a mask ban.
Tennessee appeals court overturns a man’s manslaughter conviction for killing a transgender woman, ruling jurors should have heard her sex assigned at birth.
988 crisis line restores its LGBTQ+ youth option with $33 million from Congress, more than a year after the Trump administration cut it.
Justice Department says UCLA’s law school illegally favored Black and Hispanic applicants over white and Asian students, its second such finding against UCLA.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sues Harvard for faculty hiring records in its chair’s probe of alleged discrimination against white men.
Federal judge voids Justice Department conditions tying domestic violence and sexual assault grants to Trump’s immigration, DEI and gender identity policies.
Education Department formally repeals Biden’s 2024 Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+ students, skipping public comment, after courts struck it down in 2025.
Trump asks Supreme Court to let federal prisons end most gender-affirming care for transgender inmates, saying prison officials needn’t show evidence of security risks.
Justice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them “onerous and outdated.”
HHS moved $12 million from its minority health office to pay for Health Secretary Kennedy’s security, then canceled 16 grants citing “limited” funding, WSJ reports.
Trump administration proposes a refugee ceiling “primarily” for white Afrikaners, after South Africans made up over 99% of this year’s refugees.
Defense Secretary Hegseth replaces career-record promotion boards for new generals and admirals with a “battlefield-style” test, without saying how it will be scored.
Interior Department plans to post a dozen signs costing $84,000 outside the National Museum of American History warning visitors of Smithsonian leaders’ “anti-white animus,” The Atlantic reports.
Justice and Education departments accuse UC Berkeley Law of favoring Black applicants over white and Asian ones, at a school where 51 of 1,128 students are Black.
Treasury moves to strip tax-exempt status from up to 18,000 schools that consider race in admissions, invoking a 1983 ruling against a college that banned interracial relationships.
Trump administration threatens to end federal artifact loans, grants and contracts to the Smithsonian “under current leadership,” escalating a year-long campaign over its slavery and diversity exhibits.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes at least 6 Army officers from a major general promotion list one day after the Army secretary quit, The Hill reports.
Justice Department sues Kansas City, Kansas, schools over transgender guidance it says hides students’ transitions from parents, calling it the first lawsuit of its kind.
Trump nominates acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao permanently, 4 months after Defense Secretary Hegseth fired his predecessor and one day after the Army secretary resigned.
Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to let it enforce its transgender troop ban on those already serving, calling an appeals court’s animus finding “gravely erroneous.”
EEOC votes 2-1 to propose ending federal workers’ guaranteed hearing before a judge on discrimination claims and banning class complaints, with comments due in 30 days.
Deloitte pays $21.5 million to settle DOJ claims its DEI programs defrauded the government, with an anti-affirmative action group taking $4.3 million as whistleblower.
State Department moves to sell a Kehinde Wiley painting of Dominicans it commissioned in 2013, after officials called the Obama portraitist’s work “woke.”
Trump administration bans Medicaid and CHIP from covering hormone treatment for transgender youth, effective immediately for some care despite doctors’ recommendations.
Florida AG Uthmeier threatens to charge WNBA players with assault after a flagrant foul on Sophie Cunningham, though no WNBA team plays in Florida.
Federal judge holds DHS in contempt for slow-walking her order to turn over 800 immigration agents’ cellphone records from the Los Angeles raids.
Transgender federal workers sue OPM over canceled insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, arguing the same treatments remain covered for other employees.
Scouting America cuts jamboree spaces for gay youth, girls and scouts of color after Hegseth threatens its century-old Pentagon partnership.
Musk’s X.AI sues to overturn Minnesota’s ban on AI nudification apps as free speech, a law the legislature passed with one dissenting vote.
Education Department bars civil rights investigators from citing racial disparities in school discipline, advanced classes, or admissions as evidence of discrimination, skipping public comment.
Judge orders the Pentagon to explain why Hegseth’s new testosterone therapy program for troops differs from the hormone care its transgender ban prohibits.
Federal agencies admit in court they used keyword searches for diversity and gender to cancel nearly $2 billion in University of California research grants.
House votes to officially rename the Defense Department the Department of War, a change the Congressional Budget Office says could cost $125 million.
Justice Department investigates whether Chinese-funded Harvard scholarships restricted to foreign students illegally discriminate against Americans, its latest front against the university.
New York Times countersues the EEOC, saying the agency sued over a white editor’s promotion 8 days after Times reporting exposed its pro-Trump case targeting.
Faculty groups sue Texas Tech over classroom limits on race and gender they say ban teaching Plato, Dred Scott facts, and Holocaust history.
Disability and education groups sue the Education Department and OMB for withholding nearly $2 billion in congressionally appropriated research funds set to expire.
New Jersey lawmakers pass a bill criminalizing interference with reproductive and transgender healthcare and shielding providers from extradition, sending it to Governor Sherrill.
A federal judge blocks a Trump rule that would strip student loan forgiveness from public service workers whose employers the administration deems to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
North Carolina’s booth at Trump’s Great American State Fair pulls a Confederate version of the state flag after Governor Stein condemns it.
A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with “building bridges,” its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds “no power.”
The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth’s names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
The Justice Department opens a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after it warned Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
A Missouri judge strikes down most of the state’s abortion restrictions and restores medication abortion for the first time since 2018, enforcing the reproductive-rights amendment voters passed in 2024.
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration’s appeal to strip Philadelphia’s President’s House slavery exhibits, undoing a February order that had forced their restoration.