Mumbai-based higher education and career advisory firm, ReachIvy, is receiving anxious queries from aspirants and their parents about the impact of Trump administration’s latest move.
under a federal push to ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s sports.“Minnesota brings this lawsuit to stop President Trump and his administration from bullying vulnerable children in this state,” Ellison said at a news conference, quoting the opening line from the lawsuit naming Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi.
When Bondi announced the administration’s lawsuit against Maine last week, she warned that Minnesota and California could be next. The administration’s lawsuit followed weeks of feuding between Trump and Democratic Gov. Janet Mill of Maine that led to a clash at the White House when she told Trump, “We’ll see you in court.”With this case, Ellison is trying to beat Trump and Bondi to the courthouse.The federal lawsuit asks the court to declare
on the matter — and letters that the Justice Department has sent to Minnesota threatening to cut off education funding if the state doesn’t comply — unconstitutional and bar their enforcement. Ellison told reporters that the orders violate the constitutional separation of powers by usurping Congress’ authority to legislate. He said the orders also violate the federal law known as, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funds.
has protected transgender rights since 1993, and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation in 2023
for transgender children coming from other states for“There won’t be any acceptance or reception of them (the migrants) on the territories secured by the Libyan Armed Forces whatever the reasons and justifications are,” it said.
Abuses against migrants in detention in Libya have been widely documented, with U.N. investigators saying they had, including accounts of murder, torture, enslavement, extrajudicial killings and rape.
about repeated beatings and torture while ransoms were demanded of their families. Their bodies showed traces of old and recent injuries, and signs of bullet and knife wounds on their backs, legs, arms and faces.Magdy reported from Cairo. AP writers Lolita C. Baldor and Seung Min Kim in Washington and John O’Connor in Springfield, Illinois, contributed to this report.