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Penn Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas swims the 200 free at the NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships at Georgia Tech in March 2022. The University of Pennsylvania will block transgender athletes from female sports teams and erase the records set by Thomas.

Trump administration releases $175 million in federal funding to Penn after transgender athletes agreement

By Amanda Musa, Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has released $175 million in previously frozen federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania, a White House official told CNN on Wednesday, following an agreement on how the university would handle transgender athletes. The funding release comes after the school reached an agreement with

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Coeur d'Alene Fire Department engineer Dave Tysdal

The firefighters killed and injured in Sunday’s attack had nearly 70 years of combined experience. Here’s what we know

CNN, BROADCASTIFY, KHQ, MARK LANTHROP, SPOKANE VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF COEUR D’ ALENE, KOOTENAI COUNTY FIRE AND RESCUE, CNN VIA WEBEX CISCO, FROM SOCIAL MEDIA By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Two firefighters were fatally shot and a third is seriously injured after investigators say a lone gunman opened fire on crews responding to

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Environmental advocates and protesters at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Saturday

‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What to know about Florida’s new controversial migrant detention facility

By Chelsea Bailey, Isabel Rosales, Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) — Deep in the marshy wetlands of the Florida Everglades – less than 50 miles west of President Donald Trump’s resort in Miami – sits the latest battleground in his administration’s immigration enforcement efforts: A makeshift detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” In a matter of days,

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Coeur d'Alene Fire Department engineer Dave Tysdal

The firefighters killed and injured in Sunday’s attack had nearly 70 years of combined experience. Here’s what we know

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Two firefighters were fatally shot and a third is seriously injured after investigators say a lone gunman opened fire on crews responding to a brush fire on Canfield Mountain on Sunday, near Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. The now-deceased suspect is believed to have started the fire intentionally to draw

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