The Trump administration has barred Medicaid from covering gender-affirming surgeries and hormones for transgender minors, according to a new rule reported on August 11–12, 2026. Transgender rights advocates said the rule would face a legal challenge.
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NYTimes – US Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors.
NYTimes – US US President Donald Trump is in Ireland for a two-day trip mixing talks with politicians and business leaders with attendance at the Irish Open at his Doonbeg golf course. During meetings in Dublin with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Trump said he would 'love' to see a unified Ireland and that 'it may as well happen now'. The visit follows a Republican rally in Dallas.
NYTimes – US Former CIA officer David J. Rush, accused of stealing more than $40 million in gold bars from the agency and hiding 303 bars in his Virginia basement, has reached a tentative plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Rush was fired after the FBI discovered the gold. The court filing did not specify the charges he could plead to.
BBC News – World Grammy-winning Chicago rapper Lil Durk, born Durk Banks, has been acquitted by a federal jury in Los Angeles of all charges in a murder-for-hire plot. He was arrested in 2024 and accused of involvement in a 2022 shooting that killed a cousin of rival rapper Quando Rondo. Prosecutors had alleged Durk put a bounty on another rapper in retaliation for a friend's killing.
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