A California court allowed school districts to sue social media companies including Facebook and TikTok over accusations they harm the mental health of children and therefore force the districts to spend more resources to tackle such issues faced by students. The judgment came as part of a multidistrict litigation that consolidated hundreds of complaints filed […]
“Operation Padlock to Protect” is an initiative that has shut down over 750 illegal cannabis stores in New York City. Mayor Eric Adams and New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul say the shops sell unregulated products that could be laced with other deadly substances, and are hubs of illegal activity. They say the illegal businesses […]
A Texas surgeon, who is charged with obtaining protected patient information without authorization, said his intention was to reveal that Texas Children’s Hospital had continued transgender medical interventions on minors despite pledging to stop. Evolutionary biologist and NTD contributor Colin Wright speaks with NTD to react to the news and discuss the current state of […]
Tennessee lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill that would criminalize adults who help children access gender transition procedures without parental consent. The legislation, SB 2782, sponsored by state Sen. Janice Bowling, cleared the Senate in a 24-4 vote. It was advocated by the Republican supermajority as crucial for safeguarding parental rights. Under the bill’s provisions, any […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra on Feb. 20, demanding the case files of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors who have been charged with crimes in the United States. Mr. Jordan notified the secretary of the subpoena via letter, stating that HHS’s failure to provide full […]
Two abandoned unaccompanied minors from Guatemala were discovered by Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials near the Texas border on July 3. The two minors, aged 8 and 11, told troopers they were abandoned by a female adult along the edge of the Rio Grande River at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, DPS spokesman Lt. Chris Olivarez […]
With a growing number of states taking action against gender transitioning for minors, Billboard Chris has been traveling around North America to speak out against it when he was recently violently assaulted during one of his protests. NTD recently has had a chance to speak to Billboard Chris to ask him about why he does […]
A U.S. judge on March 31 blocked a Tennessee law that forbids drag shows being held while minors are present. “At this point, the court finds that the statute is likely both vague and overly-broad,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump appointee, said in a 15-page ruling. Parker imposed a temporary restraining order that […]
Utah Governor Spencer Cox on Thursday signed two bills into law settling limits on social media use for minors—including requiring parental consent, making it the first U.S. state to do so. “We’re no longer willing to let social media companies continue to harm the mental health of our youth,” Cox, a Republican, said on Twitter. […]
Mexican authorities have found 343 migrants, including 103 unaccompanied minors, in an abandoned freight truck container on the side of a highway, the authorities said Monday. The National Immigration Institute said the trailer was found Sunday night in the steamy Gulf coast state of Veracruz. It was on a route often used by smugglers to […]
Two of the Americans kidnapped in Northern Mexico have been found dead, and two are still alive, according to the regional governor. And multiple sources report the group of four friends was going there for one of them to have a “tummy tuck” surgery done. In Veracruz, Mexico, over a hundred unaccompanied minors were found […]
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem signed a bill into law making cross-sex procedures for minors illegal. Jon Schweppe, the director of policy at the American principles project, an organization advocating for family rights, speaks on the issue.
Two teenage boys were shot dead and three more minors were wounded in a shootout at an Atlanta apartment complex Saturday that police said originated as a dispute online. Officers responded to the complex in the city’s southwest shortly after 5 p.m. Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, and the others were hospitalized […]
Multiple illegal aliens posing as unaccompanied minors while in custody have been identified by U.S. Border Patrol Agents in El Paso, Texas in the past week, according to officials. Three adults who were part of a group of 13 migrants encountered by agents of El Paso Station on Aug. 16 were discovered by agents at the El Paso Sector […]
Boston Children’s Hospital is under scrutiny for videos and archived websites that went viral on the internet in August. In the video, an employee talks about cross-sex surgery, and the hospital’s archived website shows that the minimum age for one of those surgeries used to be listed as 17 years. The hospital refused to talk […]
A Republican Texas lawmaker announced on Monday he will introduce legislation to ban drag shows from being performed in the presence of minors in the state, after a recent drag show in a Dallas bar was held open to families and children. The show over the weekend was titled “Drag the Kids to Pride Drag […]
