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The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Tuesday evening, putting a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the helm of a Justice Department that has already been rattled by the firings of career employees seen as disloyal to the Republican president.

Hospitals across the country are suspending or reevaluating their gender-affirming care programs for patients under 19, creating fear and confusion among transgender youth and their families.

Those who have put out public statements cited President Donald Trump’s executive order that directed federal agencies to take action against hospitals that continue to provide care, including threatening to cut federal funding and grants.

But the executive order, by itself, doesn’t make providing gender-affirming care illegal, especially in the 24 states that don’t have any laws prohibiting care, said Craig Konnoth, a law professor at the University of Virginia.

“Right now, hospitals and health systems are subject to no requirements to do anything because the executive order is not self-enforcing or self-executing but rather it relies on agencies to promulgate various kinds of agency actions,” he said.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the war-torn territory.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) has called for the deportation Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a U.S. citizen, to her birth country of Somalia.

“America would be a better place if @IlhanMN were deported back to Somalia,” Gill wrote Tuesday on the social platform X.

Gill, a first-term lawmaker representing Texas’s 26th Congressional District, was responding to a clip another X user shared Tuesday of the Minnesota Democrat’s recent interview with a reporter.

Thirty minutes later, in another post, Gill wrote that “we should have never let Ilhan Omar into our country.”

Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1995 and became a naturalized citizen at 17 years old in 2000.

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• Donald Trump has said he is not sure whether the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will hold. Trump is expected to issue an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN human rights council and prohibiting future funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa), according to a report. US funding to Unrwa was suspended in 2024 under Joe Biden’s administration.

• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to begin talks today on brokering a second phase of the ceasefire with Hamas, his office said, as he visits the new Trump administration in Washington. Ahead of his departure, Netanyahu told reporters he would discuss “victory over Hamas”, without defining what this would mean in practical terms, contending with Iran and freeing all hostages when he meets with the US President on Tuesday.

• Hamas is ready to begin talks on the details of a second phase of the ongoing truce in Gaza, two officials from the Palestinian militant group told Agence France-Presse on Monday. “Hamas has informed the mediators, during ongoing communications and meetings held with Egyptian mediators last week in Cairo, that we are ready to start the negotiations for the second phase,” one official said on condition of anonymity. “We are waiting for the mediators to initiate the next round of negotiation,” said another.

President Donald Trump on Monday indicated that he wants to reach an agreement with Ukraine to gain access to the country’s rare earth materials as a condition for continuing U.S. support for its war against Russia.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump complained that the U.S. had sent more in military and economic assistance to Ukraine than its European partners, adding, “We’re looking to do a deal with Ukraine where they’re going to secure what we’re giving them with their rare earth and other things.”

On Tuesday, President Trump will sign an executive order that will pull the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly ahead of the announcement.

During his first term as president, Trump also cut ties with the UNHRC, an organization that U.S. leaders from both parties have long said has a bias against Israel.

The order will also cut future funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinians. The Biden administration paused funding to UNRWA while the war between Israel and Hamas was ongoing, after accusations from Israel that some staffers from the agency had ties to Hamas. But an independent review found that there was no evidence to back that up. UNRWA is the main agency providing relief to Palestinians in Gaza.r

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Senator Ruben Gallego has accused social media giant Meta of “presumptively bowing” to the Trump administration by making abortion-related content more difficult to find.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, was accused of “shadow-banning” several non-profits who provide medication abortion to women in the US.

“I am deeply concerned at the chilling effect that suppressing content related to abortion has towards women,” Gallego wrote in a letter sent to the company on Friday. “Women around the country rely on medicated abortion as safe and effective way to address deeply personal health decisions.”

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