For more than 50 years, the U.S. civil rights law known as Title IX has been a bulwark against sex discrimination in education. Covering students from kindergarten through university, it’s been the basis for landmark cases involving campus rape, gender bias in standardized testing and unequal funding for women’s athletics.

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In one respect, the soaring national debt is a lot like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it.

Nobody, that is, but Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican.

Eight years ago, Sen. Paul introduced his “Penny Plan Balanced Budget,” an effort to balance the federal books within five years. Under his ...Read more

Right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones said his infamous Infowars platform has stopped broadcasting and shuttered its Austin, Texas, headquarters.

Jones, in a video posted on X on Friday, blamed a court-appointed receiver who allegedly told him and his crew that they must leave the premises by midnight Thursday. Jones, on a Thursday Infowars ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of people took to the streets in Los Angeles on Friday to mark International Workers’ Day amid heightened concerns about affordability, immigration sweeps and the Iran war.

The demonstration, dubbed “May Day Strong,” kicked off in MacArthur Park, where a coalition of community, labor and immigrant rights groups ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Police Department’s bureau of internal affairs has opened an investigation into two officers who searched Alphanso Talley last weekend before he was taken to Swedish Hospital, where he allegedly shot and killed Officer John Bartholomew and critically wounded his partner.

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WASHINGTON — The aircraft Qatar gave to the United States as an interim Air Force One for President Donald Trump is on track to be delivered this summer, with L3Harris Technologies Inc. completing modifications, the U.S. Air Force said Friday.

The luxury Boeing Co. 747-8 jumbo jet “has officially completed modification and flight testing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio has approved expedited arms transfers to Israel, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, bypassing a standard congressional review to rush air defense missiles and laser guidance systems to the Middle East as the Iran war ceasefire seems ever more fragile.

The agreements amount to nearly $9 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors say the man suspected of starting the blaze that would eventually become the deadly Palisades fire was distraught over his relationship with a former co-worker, angry about not having plans on New Year’s Eve and “pissed off about the world,” according to new court filings.

Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, was...Read more

MIAMI — An Ecuadorian lawyer told a federal jury in Miami that he drafted a Haitian warrant for the arrest of President Jovenel Moïse before his assassination nearly five years ago, while he also prepared immunity documents for the owners of a Miami-area security firm standing trial on conspiracy charges of hiring former Colombian soldiers to...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — After a stop-and-start debate over two days, lawmakers granted final legislative approval Friday for a new state civil rights law that would allow Connecticut citizens to sue federal immigration agents.

The measure showed sharp divisions with most Democrats in favor and all Republicans against the bill that will place ...Read more

Weeks before Bahamians are set to decide who will govern the country for the next five years, the government has hired two allies of President Donald Trump to help strengthen relations with the United States.

Coreco “CJ” Pearson, a MAGA youth influencer and commentator, has registered as a foreign agent and will be paid $20,000 a month.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expressed displeasure with the current state of negotiations with Iran but stopped short of threatening fresh military action in the nine-week conflict that’s triggered a global energy crisis.

“They want to make a deal but I’m not satisfied with it,” Trump told reporters at the White House Friday. �...Read more

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — President Donald Trump came to the friendly territory of Florida’s retirement haven Friday for his first public event since an alleged assassination attempt against him, touting tax cuts for seniors and parading Dr. Phil on stage.

Trump quipped he wasn’t afraid for his safety at The Villages, a GOP stronghold where he...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that significantly hardens sanctions on the Cuban government, authorizing sanctions on foreign companies and banks that do business with Cuba.

Cuba is under a comprehensive U.S. trade and financial embargo, but so far the prohibitions have mostly affected U.S. companies and people under...Read more

Bard College President Leon Botstein is retiring from the institution he led for half a century after revelations about his well-documented relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein came to light.

“After completing 51 years as the president of Bard, I am announcing that I will be retiring from the presidency at the end of this...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles court has determined a child sexual assault case filed against Aerosmith frontman, Steven Tyler, will proceed to trial.

The singer is accused of grooming, sexually assaulting and impregnating a 16-year-old Julia Misley in the 1970s. The suit, first filed in 2022 in Torrance, claims he "used his role, status, and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former Major League Baseball player Royce Clayton took the stand in Rebecca Grossman's wrongful death civil trial on Friday, recalling how he learned the Grossman Burn Foundation co-founder had fatally struck two boys with her car in a Westlake Village crosswalk.

With tears in his eyes, Clayton testified that ex-Los Angeles ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Patterson man who was shot seven times by immigration agents and then charged with assaulting a federal officer with his car while trying to flee has been formally indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the incident, court documents show.

The jury handed up two counts of assaulting a federal officer and one...Read more

SpaceX began the month of May with a launch of its workhorse rocket from Cape Canaveral with, just days after its bigger brother, the Falcon Heavy, helped set a record for different types of rockets flown in one month on Florida's Space Coast.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 more of the Starlink broadband satellites lifted off at 2:06 p.m. EDT ...Read more