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Penn professor helps draft policy to accommodate transgender youth in Philadelphia schools - Penn professor Amy Hillier worked with LGBTQ students in Philadelphia to reform the School District of Philadelphia's policy to accommodate ...

Who Is Roger Severino? Donald Trump's New Appointment Sparks Concern Among LGBTQ Activists - Severino has been long criticized for being anti- LGBTQ , though a Heritage Foundation spokeswoman has argued that he will fight for the freedom of ...

North Carolina's anti- LGBTQ law is costing the state's economy hundreds of millions a year - The AP's report attempts to square the economic impact of boycotts and protests against HB2, which then-Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed into law last ...

For LGBTQ Travelers, Rivers Cruises Are the Rage - With these folks in mind, several tour operators are now offering LGBTQ -specific river cruise charters, which journey to an ever-increasing roster of ...

Melissa McCarthy talks to Ellen about playing Sean Spicer - Melissa McCarthy appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show to talk about her portrayal of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night ...

5 Ways You Can Support Your LGBTQ+ Friend - So, one of your friends is not heterosexual. They may have come out to everyone, or just a few close friends and family, or friends only, or just you.

In West Virginia, LGBTQ advocates see a shift toward support - A recent Reuters analysis showed that since the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality in 2015, about 50 cities and towns have passed LGBTQ  ...

Who'd gain from a Trump border wall? Hint: Not Mexico - As a billionaire developer, Donald Trump built casinos, luxe condo towers and lush golf courses. Now, as president, Trump aims to develop perhaps his most ambitious and surely his most contentious project yet: A wall along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. How? At what cost? And who would benefit? Much remains unknown. Ultimately, though, experts say the project, if built, could deliver a windfall for some large construction companies and their suppliers. Engineering and infrastructure companies that have worked on previous government projects could capture a chunk of the multibillion-dollar work. Among them are Kiewit and Flour Enterprises. Subsidiaries of both have signed up as interested vendors.

From the border to Mexico's capital: San Diego chamber trip aims to build bridges - With Donald Trump 's presidency creating a rift in U.S.- Mexico relations, dozens of San Diegans and bajacalifornianos are joining forces this week in ...

California governor swipes Donald Trump for Mexico border wall - California Governor Jerry Brown likened President Donald Trump to a strongman whose goal of walling off the US- Mexico border ...

Carlos Slim teams up with Chinese to focus on Mexican market - Carlos Slim's Giant Motors will begin manufacturing cars in Mexico in a joint ... This comes as some carmakers have fallen foul of Donald Trump's  ...

Calling Donald Trump's anti-NAFTA bluff, Mexico is looking to get its corn from elsewhere - US president Donald Trump’s threats to upend existing free-trade agreements so far amount to bluster, but that’s not stopping Mexico from taking steps to protect itself. In a move to safeguard his country’s national interests, Mexican deputy economy minister Juan Carlos Baker confirmed to the Financial Times (paywall) over the weekend that his country is in talks with Argentina and Brazil to create duty-free relationships for corn imports. Mexico currently gets about 98% of its corn from the US. If those arrangements materialize, it will hit US farmers—the very people that Trump often says he’s protecting from bad trade deals.

Mexicans who help build Trump wall 'traitors,' top Archdiocese says - Mexicans who help build U.S. President Donald Trump's planned border wall would be acting immorally and should be deemed traitors, the Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico said on Sunday, turning up the heat on a simmering dispute over the project. In a provocative editorial, the country's biggest Archdiocese sought to increase pressure on the government to take a tougher line on companies aiming to profit from the wall, which has strained relations between Trump and the Mexican government. "Any company intending to invest in the wall of the fanatic Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners should be considered traitors to the homeland," said the editorial in Desde la fe, the Archdiocese's weekly publication. On Tuesday, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo warned firms it would not be in their "interests" to participate in the wall. Bu

Let's do a trade tango with Mexico - Mexico is fast emerging as a major trade partner for India. India’s exports to Latin America as a whole declined in 2016. But exports to Mexico have increased by an impressive 22 per cent from last year ($2.77 billion) and doubled from $1.56 billion in 2012. ( see table ) In Latin America, Mexico overtook Brazil ($2.3 billion) in 2016 as the largest market for India's exports. The context is hugely significant. Mexico is keen to strengthen its economic partnership with large markets such as India, after Donald Trump’s trade threats. The Mexican ambassador to India has invited Indian IT professionals to use Mexico as the base for near-shore US operations, after Trump’s H-1B visa restrictions. 

Why A Staggering Number Of White Working-Class Americans Are Succumbing To 'Deaths of ... - While Deaton told NPR he sees their findings as “part of the decline of the white working-class,” black and Latino people remain most adversely ...