Florida Gov. DeSantis signs law banning local DEI funding and says white men are the “disfavored” group most discriminated against.
FTC forces ad firms Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP to settle, barring brand-safety standards conservatives say hurt Breitbart and Musk’s X.
Trump administration releases $3.4 billion in Second Avenue subway funding minutes before MTA lawsuit hearing, after seven-month DEI standoff.
Virginia Gov. Spanberger signs bill ending state tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other Confederate memorial organizations.
Federal judge rules 61 fired Fannie Mae workers of Indian descent cannot sue housing director Pulte after he accused them of fraud on television without evidence.
IBM pays $17 million to settle Trump administration’s first Civil Rights Fraud Initiative case while denying it ever engaged in the DEI practices it agreed to end.
Trump administration settles lawsuit and agrees to permanently restore the Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument two months after ordering its removal.
Education Department rescinds Obama and Biden era civil rights settlements requiring seven schools to protect transgender students from discrimination.
Federal judge blocks Trump order requiring colleges in 17 states to hand over seven years of race-based admissions data, calling the process “rushed and chaotic.”
USDA kills 49 of 50 farm grants for underserved producers, costing Montana tribes nearly $15 million for land and training programs the agency labeled DEI.
Federal judge orders University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to the EEOC for its antisemitism investigation.
DOJ sues Minnesota over policies allowing transgender girls to compete in girls’ sports, threatening nearly $3 billion in federal education funding.
Defense Secretary Hegseth removes two Black and two female Army officers from promotion list to one-star general, with at least two more blocked in another branch.
Justice Department opens civil rights investigations into admissions at Stanford, Ohio State and UC San Diego medical schools, threatening federal funding.
USDA cancels a $300 million Biden-era program that helped underserved farmers buy and retain land, calling it discriminatory DEI spending.
Trump installs replica of Baltimore Columbus statue toppled during 2020 racial justice protests on White House grounds, calls Columbus “the original American hero.”
Senate Democrats block Republican amendment to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports for the fourth time as GOP attaches it to voting restrictions bill.
Chicago Transit Authority sues the federal government over withholding $2 billion for the Red Line extension to the Far South Side, warns both projects may stop.
Justice Department sues Harvard to recoup federal grants and cut off future funding, alleging the university failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment.
Trump administration installs a statue of Declaration signer Caesar Rodney, who enslaved 200 people, in downtown D.C. after it was removed from Delaware during the 2020 racial justice protests.
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.
