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President threatened to withhold federal funding from hospitals providing gender-affirming care to those under 19US politics live – latest updatesIn the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order threatening to withhold federal funding from hospitals that offer gender-affirming care to individuals under the age of 19, several major hospitals across the US have stopped providing such treatments.The 28 January executive order directed federal departments and agencies to ensure that hospitals and medical institutions receiving federal research or education grants stop providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgical procedures to transgender youth under the age of 19. Continue reading... Source link :

Another boy, also 15, arrested on suspicion of murder over attack at All Saints Catholic high school, police sayA 15-year-old boy has died after being stabbed at a school in Sheffield.The teenager suffered serious injuries in the incident at All Saints Catholic high school, South Yorkshire police said, but despite best efforts of paramedics he died a short time later. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/03/boy-detained-teenager-stabbed-school-sheffield Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-03 16:07:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Orders come less than a day after top security officials suspended as Musk leads moves towards agency’s closureUS politics live – latest updatesThe Washington DC headquarters of the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) was reportedly closed Monday, and workers were told to remain at home as Donald Trump’s second presidential administration took further steps towards its likely closure.Agency staff received late-night emails on Sunday telling them not to come to work in the morning, according to Devex, a media platform for the global development community, which first reported the move. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/usaid-closed-trump-musk Author :

European leaders gather chiefly to discuss defence but US president’s threat of trade war dominates agendaEU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has just been addressing the media on her arrival in Brussels.She spoke about the need for Europe to “do more, together” in defence and look at how new initiatives can be funded.We were listening carefully to those words and of course we are preparing also on our side. What is clear, there are no winners in trade wars. If US starts a trade war, the one laughing on the side is China. We are very interlinked. We need America,