A federal judge agreed Tuesday to temporarily block prison officials from transferring three incarcerated transgender women to men’s facilities and terminating their access to hormone therapy under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., granted the inmates’ request for a temporary restraining order. He issued a written ruling several hours after a hearing where a plaintiffs’ attorney argued that Trump’s order discriminates against transgender people and violates their constitutional rights.
The judge is presiding over a lawsuit filed on behalf of three transgender women who were housed in women’s facilities before Trump signed the order on Jan. 20, his first day back in the White House.
Outraged Palestinians condemned President Donald Trump‘s claim the U.S. would seek ownership of the Gaza Strip and they would have no choice but to leave their home in the war torn enclave.
In Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, Narmin Nour El Din, 29, told an NBC News crew that all Palestinians would vehemently reject Trump’s suggestions.
“All the Palestinians refuse the idea and we will be insistent on our land,” she said standing outside a tent encampment.
“We ask Trump to leave the people to live in their land and to make the land more beautiful. To help the people here,” she said. “Not to take Gaza from them.”
As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources.
The review — laid out in a Monday order from new Interior Secretary Doug Burgum — is raising alarms among conservation groups concerned that President Donald Trump will shrink or eliminate monuments established by his predecessors, including Democrat Joe Biden.
Burgum gave agency officials until Feb. 18 to submit plans on how to comply with his order.
NBC News’ Kelly O’Donnell reports on the “stunning moment in the East Room” where President Trump, joined by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, suggested that the U.S. “will take over the Gaza Strip.”
An Iranian spokesperson said Trump’s claim that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons is “a big lie” that has been “repeatedly proven false and is easily verifiable.”
Speaking to the Islamic Republic News Agency, spokesperson Esmail Bagahei emphasized that Iran is a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT, an an international agreement that aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and technology, adding that the country’s nuclear program was also under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Bagahei’s comments came a day after Trump renewed his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran by signing an executive order that cracks down on the country’s nuclear program and limits its oil exports to other nations.
Trump added that Iran would be “obliterated” if it attempted to assassinate him: “I’ve left instructions if they do it, they get obliterated, there won’t be anything left,” he said from the Oval Office.
Bagahei’s comments echo remarks made by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who said that “maximum pressure is a failed experience, and repeating it will lead to another failure.”
Republican governors and state lawmakers are rushing to explicitly align themselves with or mimic some of the most prominent actions Trump has taken since he was sworn in.
As state legislatures have convened across the country in recent weeks, elected GOP officials have sought to advance bills designed to help facilitate Trump’s mass deportation plans — some of which are named after or specifically reference the president.
And governors and lawmakers in at least 11 states have attempted to create their own version of the Department of Government Efficiency, the outside advisory commission that Trump put tech billionaire Elon Musk in charge of to find ways to cut federal spending.
