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ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender youth.Florida is currently one of 25 states with such restrictions in place.Hinkle’s ruling also blocks Florida officials from enforcing rules approved by the Florida Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine in order to comply with the law.Those rules not only bar youth from accessing gender-affirming treatments, but imposed the first-of-their-kind restrictions to make it more difficult for transgender adults in the state to access gender-affirming care.Among those restrictions were that adult patients could only see a doctor in person before receiving any kind of gender-affirming treatment, including regular prescription renewals. That limited the number of medical professionals available to transgender adults.

Disney will not be eliminating content and trigger warnings from its films and TV shows. Instead, it will be changing the message to a couple of lines, to be played before stories that contain culturally outdated depictions or views.First reported by Axios, Disney will be removing and adjusting messages played before certain titles.The company began using brief warnings in 2019, beginning with the film Dumbo.

Jack Dunn Hudson Thames, who voices the titular web-slinger in the upcoming Disney+ show “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,” recently shared some worries he had about leading Marvel‘s latest animated series. While speaking with Collider, Thames said he had concerns that “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” would be “annoying and woke,” but ended up thinking the show was “awesome” after reading the script. “I thought it was awesome.

Politico has hired NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns as its White House bureau chief.

Despite a boatload of evidence of past booze-ups plus inappropriate and reckless behavior, Donald Trump says his Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth “does not have a drinking problem.”

Donald Trump reportedly plans to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state.

Donald Trump has named his campaign manager Susie Wiles as his next White House chief of staff, the first major position that the president-elect has announced since his election on Tuesday.

Manchester United co-owners Avram and Edward Glazer have backed different candidates in the United States presidential election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris made her first appearance on The View as Democratic presidential nominee, in a very friendly setting where she outlined some of her policy priorities and got a chance to respond to rival Donald Trump‘s falsehoods about the administration’s hurricane response.

Ten days after the Southeast was wracked by Helene, one the deadliest storms in modern history, the National Weather Service today forecast that newly-formed Hurricane Milton is headed toward central Florida and could impact the entire state.

UPDATED, 2.00 AM PT: One person has died in Florida and there have been two confirmed deaths in Georgia, after Category 4 Hurricane Helene slammed into the U.S. southeastern coast overnight, with winds gusting at 140 mph at its height.

As Hurricane Helene barrels through Florida, the state’s theme parks are responding.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Paramore’s Hayley Williams spoke out against Donald Trump and Project 2025 during the band’s performance last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles, encouraging attendees to use their vote to make their voices heard. Williams made her feelings known while the group was performing “Big Man, Little Integrity.” “Project 2025 is Donald Trump‘s playbook for controlling and punishing women, poor people, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community,” said Williams.

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The Summer 2024 zeitgeist is, arguably, embracing change of fortune. Presidential polling in early July, for example, had GOP nominee Donald Trump notably, if not comfortably, ahead of Democratic incumbent Joe Biden. Today, it seems Trump may be trailing his new Democratic competition, Vice President Kamala Harris.In Florida, change of fortune may be seen in the lackluster primary showings of school board candidates endorsed by Republican Gov.

transgender participation in women’s sports, which has become a rallying cry in recent years as various Republican-led legislatures have passed laws barring trans participation, and as various sporting bodies have sought to adopt restrictions prohibiting transgender or intersex athletes from competing as women. James accused Democrats of wanting “to take your dollars…take your voice…take your control, and give it back to D.C.

Nikki Haley told the Republican National Convention that “Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period,” mending fences with the former president after a bitter primary race in which she had called him “not qualified” for office.

Tucker Carlson is among the celebrity names slated to speak at next week’s Republican National Convention, reportedly in a plum spot on Thursday night before Donald Trump himself accepts the party nomination.

The judge in the case of two women suing Disney over its scrapped plan to move staffers 2,500 miles across the country has stepped down because her daughter works for Burbank-based conglomerate.

Disney‘s now-abandoned Florida relocation plan for staffers has created some pretty dark legal skies.

Ban This Book, by Alan Gratz, from its shelves, overriding its own Florida district book-review committee’s decision rejecting a challenge to the book.The children’s novel follows a fictional fourth-grade student who creates a secret library of banned books in her locker after her local school board bans those titles.Indian River School Board members said they disliked how it referenced other books that have been removed from schools and accused it of “teaching rebellion of school board authority.”Ban This Book, which had been housed in two elementary school libraries and a middle school, was challenged by Jennifer Pippin, president of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national right-wing group that routinely rails against books that they claim contain “age-inappropriate content” and address LGBTQ rights, among other fabricated grievances.The school board voted 3-2 to remove the book from shelves, with two candidates backed by Moms for Liberty voting to remove it, along with a third member , Kevin McDonald, who was recently appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to fill a vacant seat following the ill-timed resignation of Brian Barefoot.McDonald tried to justify banning the book by claiming the board was acting on behalf of parents who wanted to keep their children from being “indoctrinated” or exposed to allegedly “woke” ideas.“The title itself and the theme challenges our authority,” McDonald said of Ban This Book.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Disney dropped its appeal on Thursday in its First Amendment lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, officially ending the two-year battle sparked by the company’s opposition to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law. The move came a day after a state board approved a new 15-year development agreement, which will allow Disney to invest up to $17 billion to expand its Orlando theme parks.