A man falls from his motorcycle after hitting a water buffalo on his way to work outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
“It doesn’t bother me at all,” he said, resting his cola on a glass gun case. “I call it Fort Bragg all the time anyway. So, it doesn’t make any difference to me.”Rodriguez figures it will take about six months to get everything switched over. He’s looking forward to putting this chapter behind him.
“I just want to be in business,” he said. “I want to be happy. I want everybody else to be happy. And it’s hard. It’s hard, and you can’t keep both sides happy.”Just to be safe, he’s keeping both names on the paperwork.Ralph Rodriguez, right, chats with Army veteran Sidney High at his Fayetteville, N.C., pawn shop, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
Ralph Rodriguez, right, chats with Army veteran Sidney High at his Fayetteville, N.C., pawn shop, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)HARVEY, Ill. (AP) — Winfred Wilson was struggling to make ends meet on less than $700 a month, so he moved in with his daughter, gave up his car and started relying exclusively on public transit to take him wherever he needed to go across Chicago’s
As he waited for a bus connection in his hometown of Harvey on a recent trip to the grocery store, Wilson waved at familiar travelers who regularly pass through the key transportation hub serving one of the region’s poorest areas. Many, he said, encounter little resistance from drivers when they board
“People in affluent neighborhoods, they have cars and personal transportation, but they don’t want to get caught up in the rush hour,” so they use transit, Wilson said. “We couldn’t live without it.”Since Turner took the helm at HUD, the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has instructed staff to pause investigations of all gender identity discrimination cases, according to two HUD attorneys who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs or benefits.
One said letters were then issued closing the cases for lack of jurisdiction. HUD has not disclosed how many cases have been dropped.Webster’s letter and another provided to the AP cite
calling for the federal government to define sex as only male or female.Morris, of the ACLU, said she has never seen an executive order cited in a jurisdictional closure of a complaint.