The imported white chocolate in her white chocolate mud cake, a popular flavor, shot up from $75 or $100 per cake to $150. She used nearly 10 pounds of it in a recent order,
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 citecalling 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.
“So that’s really alarming,” said Morris, who described the closures as “very much consistent with this administration’sAsked about policy changes concerning transgender discrimination, HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett said the agency was enforcing the Fair Housing Act while implementing Trump’s executive order “restoring biological truth to the federal government.”
In a statement citing Trump’s order, she said government policy recognizes two sexes that “are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
Bea Gonzalez, a transgender man who was kicked out of a domestic violence shelter in November 2021 along with his three children, poses for a photo, April 9, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Jews chanting “Death to Arabs” made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday as part of an annual “Jerusalem Day” march. The procession marks Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city including the Old City and its holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, in the 1967 Mideast war.
threatened to inflame tensions that are rife in the city after nearly 600 days of war inIsraelis wave national flags during a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israelis wave national flags during a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Jerusalem’s Old City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)Israelis participate in a march marking Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war, in Damascus Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, Monday, May 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)