A woman is defined as someone who is born biologically female, Britain’s top court has ruled. The interpretation is for purposes of the country’s Equality Act, the landmark five-judge bench judgement has clarified. Yet, the ruling comes as a blow since it excludes transgender women, even those with gender reassignment certificates, from the legal definition….
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – The U.S. Supreme court is going to hear arguments Monday in a case that may have big implications for people with disabilities. The case, AJT v Osseo Area Schools, originally was about students with disabilities being able to sue their schools for discrimination. Now it may have wider reaching implications, outside…
Donald Trump sent the US stock market plummeting again, this time with social media snark and derisive playground nicknames aimed at the Chair of the US Federal Reserve. The president, under increasing pressure for singlehandedly destabilizing global markets with his trade war, has turned his attention to interest rates in a bid to avoid what…
LONDON — Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London on Saturday, days after the U.K.’s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition. With unease growing over what the ruling means for the rights of transgender people, protesters came together for what…
Apr 17, 2025 08:22 PM IST JK Rowling celebrated the UK Supreme Court’s ruling affirming trans women are not legally women, claiming it protects women’s rights. JK Rowling is celebrating the UK Supreme Court‘s unanimous ruling that trans women are not legally women. The Harry Potter author took to social media on Wednesday to hail…
Elon Musk’s heavy involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election pushed more voters away from the Republican candidate than it persuaded to support him, according to a poll. A survey from the Democratic polling firm Blueprint, shared with The Washington Post,found that 30 percent of voters said Musk’s multimillion-dollar intervention made them less likely to…
Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison Holdings has defended the contract that has allowed it to run two ports at the Panama Canal since 1997, saying the concession was “validly executed and approved by law” and denying it failed to pay more than US$1 billion to the country, as had been claimed in a sweeping financial audit….
The millions of people who rely on medical devices like hearing aids or insulin pumps could face higher prices due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Unlike pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers did not get a carveout from the levies. Some 40% of all devices are manufactured overseas, including in Mexico and Europe, which now face…
WITH AMERICA still reeling from the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on around 180 countries, a conservative organisation has filed a lawsuit challenging an initial round of tariffs the president announced in February—and doubled in March—on Chinese imports. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which counts Charles Koch, a right-wing billionaire, among its supporters, argues…
Elon Musk’s sweeping attempt to reshape American politics through a combination of financial firepower and bureaucratic upheaval faltered Tuesday night, as Democrats clinched a key victory in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race and narrowed the gap in two deep-red Florida congressional districts. Democrats scored a high-profile victory in Wisconsin, where Susan Crawford defeated Trump- and Musk-backed…