A rule banning transgender people in Montana from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates and driver’s licenses will be temporarily blocked following a state judge’s ruling. District Judge Mike Menahan on Monday ruled that the ban would be blocked while the case proceeds through the courts. Under state law, transgender people born in Montana are blocked from changing the sex designation on their birth certificate, and...

Billionaire and key Trump ally Elon Musk came out in opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s proposed bill to keep the government funded on Wednesday. Musk attacked the bill on social media, arguing the 1,547-page document is full of “pork.” The legislation is designed to avoid a Friday government shutdown and fund the government through March. “This bill should not pass,” Musk wrote bluntly on X. Republican congressional...