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The federal lawsuit seeks to withhold $3.8 billion that’s set aside for the state for the remainder of the 2025 fiscal year. By Helen Jeong • Published July 9, 2025 • Updated on July 9, 2025 at 4:39 pm The U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday threatened to withhold billions of dollars in federal funding as it filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Education…

A grant to help churches better minister to LGBTQ+ people prompted fury. A decision to return the grant then spurred disappointment. By Raquel Villatoro, The Waco Bridge July 18, 20251 PM Central As a queer kid growing up in a Southern Baptist church in rural South Carolina, AB Waters felt heartbreak after coming out. They lost…

July 8, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Kate Wells The Trump administration has launched investigations into health systems in what legal experts say is an effort to allow providers to refuse care for transgender patients on religious or moral grounds. One of the most recent actions by the Department of Health and Human Services, launched in…

Jesse Coburn July 29, 2025 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to shut down seven major investigations and cases concerning alleged housing discrimination and segregation, including some where the agency already found civil rights violations, according to HUD records obtained by ProPublica. The high-profile cases involve allegations that state and local…

FOX13 Memphis News Staff Jul 18, 2025 MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The City of Memphis has launched a new initiative called Blight Zero: Project Clean City to remove trash from Memphis roads and neighborhoods. “We hear residents and the frustration around keeping the city clean, so this is Mayor Young’s initiative and effort to play our…

Black women entrepreneurs in Memphis say they’re feeling the ripple effects after a new state law ends a program that once helped them grow and secure government contracts. By Oumou Fofana · Updated July 23, 2025 A new Tennessee law effective July 1 has led the city of Memphis and Shelby County to dismantle its Minority and Women…

by: Zaneta Lowe Posted: Jul 23, 2025 / 11:28 AM CDT MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If you rent a house or an apartment in the Memphis area, be careful how you pay your rent, because according to local housing attorneys, landlords are accusing residents of missing payments, which could ultimately lead to an eviction. Vanessa Bullock is…

Laurel Demkovich Jul 9, 2025 Gov. Bob Ferguson has committed to backfilling any Planned Parenthood funding cut in the federal spending plan approved by Congress last week. At a press conference on Wednesday, Ferguson said he would divert state dollars toward Planned Parenthood clinics at risk of losing $11 million in federal funds as part…

by AMANDA SEITZ and KIMBERLY KINDY Wed, July 2nd 2025 at 5:17 AM SEATTLE — Washington Attorney General Nick Brown joined 19 other states in filing a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to turn over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month. Health secretary Robert…

Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard June 20, 2025 / 5:08 pm Detained immigrant parents worried who will pick their children up from school. Mothers who’ve been deported with infants while their older kids are left behind in the U.S. These are among the situations the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network is hearing about these days, according to Executive…