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FILE – Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing in Milwaukee on May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Former Wisconsin judge spared prison for obstructing ICE arrest of Mexican immigrant

July 8, 2026 at 12:38 p.m.

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

LeAnne Withrow, a transgender federal worker who has filed a class action lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy prohibiting transgender federal employees from using restrooms aligned with their gender, poses for a photo at her home outside Springfield, Ill., July 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Claire Savage)

Transgender federal employees say they face fear and discrimination under Trump

September 4, 2025 at 6:23 a.m.

Since January, the Trump administration has reversed years of legal and policy gains for transgender Americans.

FILE – The emblem of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is shown on a podium in Vail, Colorado, Feb. 16, 2016, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Federal judge strikes down workplace protections for transgender workers

May 16, 2025 at 6:51 p.m.

A federal judge in Texas struck down guidance from a government agency establishing protections against workplace harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

A federal judge temporarily blocks parts of Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders

March 28, 2025 at 6:41 a.m.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among federal...

FILE – Dallas Wings’ Natasha Howard handles the ball as she works against the Indiana Fever in a WNBA basketball game on Sept. 1, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

WNBA corporate sponsorship deals are growing. But not every athlete is getting their due

November 17, 2024 at 1:37 p.m.

In a banner year for women’s professional sports, athletes who dominate their game are reaping the financial benefits.

FILE – Lacey Chabert poses for a portrait to promote the Hallmark television series “Celebrations with Lacey Chabert” during the Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour on Thursday, July 11, 2024, at The Langham Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, Calif. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Hallmark exec says leading ladies Lacey Chabert, Holly Robinson Peete are ‘aging out’: lawsuit

October 27, 2024 at 9:29 a.m.

Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying that “our leading ladies are aging out,”...

FILE – Construction laborer Myrtle Wilson prepares for a the installation of windows on a building on Jan. 9, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

What’s behind the widening gender wage gap?

October 16, 2024 at 8:20 a.m.

Just how much of a setback was the COVID-19 pandemic for U.S. working women?

FILE- John Deere equipment is on display at the Farm Progress Show on Aug. 31, 2015 in Decatur, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Illinois-based John Deere ends support of ‘social or cultural awareness’ events, distances from inclusion efforts

July 17, 2024 at 6:31 p.m.

Farm equipment maker John Deere says it will no longer sponsor “social or cultural awareness” events, becoming the latest major U.S. company to distance itself from diversity and inclusion measures...

FILE – An exam room is seen inside Planned Parenthood on March 10, 2023, in Fairview Heights, Ill. Workers are entitled to workplace accommodations for abortions and some pregnancy-related conditions under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, according to federal regulations published Monday, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

New rules for Pregnant Workers Fairness Act include divisive accommodations for abortion

April 15, 2024 at 5:38 p.m.

Workers are entitled to time off and other job accommodations for abortions — along with pregnancy-related medical conditions like miscarriage, stillbirth and lactation — under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act,...

FBI Special Agent David White, left, and Bernd Ebert, head curator at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, sign documents returning the 18th century painting titled "Landscape of Italian Character" by Vienna-born artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer on Oct. 19, 2023 in Chicago.

300-year-old painting stolen by an American soldier during World War II returned to German museum

May 22, 2026 at 7:50 p.m.

After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on...

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