News for April 4, 2025

The Trump administration is setting up a new Title IX investigation team to speed up enforcement actions against transgender girls and women in school sports and sex-segregated facilities.

A federal judge rejected the Justice Department’s bid to move Rumeysa Ozturk’s detention challenge to Louisiana and said the case should be heard in Vermont.

A federal judge ordered Rumeysa Öztürk’s detention case moved from Massachusetts to Vermont and kept in place a ban on her deportation for now.

A Venezuelan man was temporarily released by ICE so he could reunite with his sick brother and move forward with a planned kidney donation.

A Russian missile and drone attack on Kryvyi Rih, the home city of President Volodymyr Zelensky, killed at least 18 people, including children, in one of the deadliest strikes on Ukraine this year.

Marcy Rheintgen was arrested in Florida after entering a women’s restroom to protest the state’s transgender bathroom law, in what lawyers say may be the first arrest under such a ban.

Stephanie Turner was disqualified from a Maryland fencing tournament after refusing to face an opponent she said was transgender, and USA Fencing said the penalty followed its rules.

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey joined local activists to protest President Donald Trump’s order that has led UPMC to limit some gender-affirming care for patients under 19.