EXCLUSIVE: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is doubling down on her calls for the country’s leading pediatric association to update its guidelines for transgender youth to include warnings about the risks of puberty blockers and other hormone treatments. Bird said the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) “is involved in children’s healthcare in Iowa and all around the country, and we want them to update their policies right now.” ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. involved a rally audience in a call-and-response joke at his Michigan rally this week. Kennedy spoke at the Falk Productions manufacturing facility in Walker, Michigan on Friday — participating in a campaign event hosted by Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump. During the rally, Kennedy mocked Vice President Kamala Harris for her frequent references to having been born in the “middle class” when...

A House Democrat running for Senate in a key swing state bashed voters who supported then-President-elect Donald Trump in a resurfaced interview. “I think Donald Trump ran a xenophobic campaign that drew out the worst people in the world that we are not going to appeal to and never will,” Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., said in a 2016 interview directly after Trump won the presidential election. Gallego also...