In a Jan. 6, 2026, speech at a House Republicans retreat, U.S. President Donald Trump said Democrats will force "transgender ...

A Plano teacher, a Houston high schooler and a network of LGBTQ clubs filed a federal lawsuit to block parts of a new Texas ...

Mr. Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, celebrated the city’s diversity and pledged to govern “audaciously” in his inaugural address. Hours later, he signed three executive orders ...

The University of Washington violated a professor’s free speech rights when it investigated and reprimanded him for putting a parody land acknowledgment in his syllabus, a federal appeals court ruled ...

Much of the fencing came down in recent days around the new elevator shaft at the Castro Muni Station that serves as the de facto front door to the famed San Francisco LGBTQ neighborhood. A widened ...

“Garden State Equality takes allegations against our staff seriously and we oppose violence of any kind,” the organization said. Garden State Equality is based in Asbury Park. "While my loved ones and ...

Former Democratic President Joe Biden appeared to stumble over the word 'America' in a recent LGBTQ+ forum speech in Washington, D.C. Newsweek reached out to Biden’s office via a contact form on its ...

Former President Joe Biden suffered a humiliating gaffe while trying to pronounce “America” as he criticized the Trump administration at a forum on LGBTQ rights in Washington, DC, Friday afternoon.

In August 2025, the U.S Department of State released its annual "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which omitted previously reported human rights violations, including "political freedoms, ...

The U.S. State Department is making official changes first seen in human rights reports issued over the summer, hollowing out support for marginalized groups around the world, including the LGBTQ+ ...

Silencing minorities is never the way forward. Kazakhstan must remember its human rights commitments and immediately drop the legal changes. In addition, the conflation in the proposed legal ...