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References to transgender people were removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, the New York City park and visitor center that commemorates a 1969 riot that became a pivotal moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

The offer’s deadline closed on Wednesday after a federal judge ruled to end a temporary pause to the program put in place last week.

The Department of Justice has ordered the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed, according to a department official.

The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped. UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima warned that millions of people could die and more resistant strains of the disease could emerge. Since President Donald Trump’s announcement the U.S....

Gov. Maura Healey rolled out the red carpet Monday to welcome King Abdullah II of Jordan before the two sat down for talks about strengthening trade relations between the Bay State and the Middle Eastern nation. The head of the House of Hashim pulled up to the State House at 11 a.m. and alighted from a dark SUV. Healey greeted…

The attorneys general argue that the principle of birthright citizenship is “enshrined in the Constitution” and that Trump does not have the authority to issue the order, which they called a “flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage.”...

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Eighteen attorneys general in all are involved in this lawsuit brought in federal court in Boston.

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A federal judge in Boston said on Friday he would take under advisement a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

President Donald Trump began his second term with a flurry of executive orders and other measures aimed at remaking the federal government and expanding the power of the presidency.  He announced a surprising plan to slash the federal work force with an offer more typical of private companies: Two million employees were told they could resign while continuing to be...

A new lawsuit alleges for the first time people died because of the disastrous 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.

European Union leaders are grappling with possible responses to a major ally the United States which appears determined to start a trade war or perhaps even seize part of their territory. The leaders met in Brussels on Monday for a defense summit. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says it would “be a cruel paradox” if the EU and the United...

Fans at a Toronto Raptors game continued an emerging trend Sunday of booing the American national anthem at pro sporting events in Canada.

The U.S. Agency for International Development’s director of security and his deputy were placed on administrative leave Saturday after trying to prevent employees from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing secure USAID systems, five sources familiar with the events told NBC News.

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario will remove American alcohol from its shelves in response to U.S. President Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

The neurological condition can cause people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have voices that break and can sound “strangled.”

Gomez, a Mexican American, posted a now-deleted video to her Instagram Story on Monday of her crying that her people “are getting attacked.”

Massachusetts public schools must provide equal access to all children regardless of their immigration status, and cannot give students’ personally identifiable information to ICE agents without written parental consent, according to guidance from the attorney general’s office. Attorney General Andrea Campbell sent the advisory to education officials around the state, in response to questions from educators about President Donald...

After voters rejected a ballot question that would have legalized some psychedelics, a number of newly filed bills seek to reignite the conversation about decriminalizing psilocybin. The bills don’t directly mirror the failed ballot measure — which opponents contended was too wide-reaching — and instead represent smaller, more measured steps to introduce legalization across the state and regulate usage for…

In a since-deleted message, Selena Gomez, who’s spoken openly about her Mexican heritage, tearfully addressed deportations in the United States: “I wish I could do something but I can’t.”

NBC talked to voters who find both parties, Democratic and Republican, lacking and who are looking for change. Here are their thoughts about the state of American politics as Trump begins his second term.