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'Gratuitously cruel': How trans youth became political targets – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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'Gratuitously cruel': How trans youth became political targets – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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Last week, the US supreme court ruled that Idaho and West Virginia can continue enforcing their bans on transgender athletes playing on girls’ and women's teams in schools. It’s the latest development in the political and legal attack on trans people – and especially trans youth – that has surged in recent years. On the heels of that decision, Kai Wright talks with Guardian reporter Sam Levin , who has been covering the debate over trans athletes in California and speaking with students and their families, and Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project, who is the first out trans person to argue in front of the US supreme court. They walk through the legal and political strategies animating the anti-trans movement, and discuss why this most recent decision could open the door to the erosion of civil liberties for everyone Trans youth athletes vow to keep playing after US supreme court ruling How the US supreme court case on trans athletes could unravel LGBTQ+ rights I’m a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced Continue reading...

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‘Don’t want to deal with Iranians anymore, they’re scum’: What Trump said on Iran

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called the Iranian leadership “scum” and “sick people” and said that recent attacks by Tehran on commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz suggested the end of the ceasefire. During an interaction with the press at the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, the US President threatened Iran again with large-scale military strikes tonight, but added that the latest round of fighting between the two nations would not result in “long-term” military action. . @POTUS : “I’m number one on the kill list for Iran… but I don’t really care because I’m doing my job, and I’m doing it, I hope, better than anybody’s ever done it.” 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/P47VkauTnq — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 8, 2026 . @POTUS on what changed with Iran: “I think more than anything else is I got to know them — and I’m not sure I want to make a deal with them. Let’s just finish the job.” pic.twitter.com/ld7uxNV9m8 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 8, 2026 The Express Global Desk at indianexpress.com which delivers authoritative, verified, and context-driven coverage of key international developments shaping global politics, policy, and migration trends. The desk focuses on stories with direct relevance for Indian and global audiences, combining breaking news with in-depth explainers and analysis. A major focus area of the desk is US immigration and visa policy, including developments related to student visas, work permits, permanent residency pathways, executive actions, and court rulings. The Global Desk also closely tracks Canada’s immigration, visa, and study policies, covering changes to study permits, post-study work options, permanent residence programmes, and regulatory updates affecting migrants and international students. All reporting from the Global Desk adheres to The Indian Express’ editorial standards, relying on official data, government notifications, court documents, and on-record sources. Core Team The Express Global Desk is led by a team of experienced journalists and editors with deep expertise in international affairs and migration policy: Aniruddha Dhar – Senior Assistant Editor with extensive experience in global affairs, international politics, and editorial leadership. Nischai Vats – Deputy Copy Editor specialising in US politics, US visa and immigration policy, and policy-driven international coverage. Mashkoora Khan – Sub-editor focusing on global developments, with a strong emphasis on Canada visa, immigration, and study-related policy coverage. ...

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Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it’s not just people giving up

Economists have spent the past week arguing about why 720,000 people walked away from the labor force in a single month. There are two reasons why you might not add jobs in a month: One is there’s no demand for workers, the other is there is demand, but there’s not enough supply.” Ullrich co-authored a May report from Indeed Hiring Lab , “The Great Mismatch: How a Shrinking Workforce, AI, and Labor Reallocation Will Define the Next 15 Years,” projecting the labor force would begin shrinking in 2026. The finding was particularly driven by a combination of immigration policy changes and what Ullrich calls “the demographic cliff”—the accelerating retirement of the baby boomer generation. The report estimates the labor force will decline by roughly 3.7%, or 5.9 million workers, between 2025 and 2032, before partially recovering. Around the same time, then-Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters the economy was seeing “very, very low, nonexistent, really” growth in the labor force. “I was like, okay, I think we are here with the demographic changes and the share of baby boomers that are leaving the workforce.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ own 10-year projections already point to declining participation, Ullrich said, and those projections predate the current immigration restrictions. “I think when their estimates come out this next year, they’ll be even more severe declines, because immigrant workers are both younger than native-born workers, but also have higher labor force participation rates.” Ullrich also pointed to BLS data comparing labor force participation between foreign-born and native-born workers, showing foreign-born individuals have a participation rate of 66.3%, compared with 61.6% for native-born workers. But the pattern flips among women: Native-born women have higher participation rates than immigrant women, particularly immigrant women with young children, who are less likely to work than their native-born counterparts. Age compounds the effect: Roughly 70.1% of foreign-born individuals are between 25 and 54, considered the “prime-age” years, as compared with 62.7% of native-born Americans. “If immigration declines, you have two impacts that are related: Immigrant workers tend to be younger than native-born workers, so by definition you get an older workforce, and labor force participation rates, even within the same age groups, are higher, especially for foreign-born men,” Ullrich said. AI is accelerating a mismatch in which the available workers aren’t lining up with where the job openings are. Low-wage, high-demand fields like home health aide work face the starkest supply gap of all, Ullrich said, as demand rises with an aging population but pay hasn’t kept pace: “It’s a mismatch problem. That’s an indirect impact of AI.” Indeed modeled the labor force through 2040 under two scenarios: one in which AI destroys a significant number of jobs, and one in which it augments human labor and creates new ones. “No matter what we did with AI in our model, demographics were the bigger story,” Ullrich said.

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