EDIT: College Health Insurance debates covering transgender surgery
An increasing number of universities, many of them elite private institutions, are offering their students health insurance plans with coverage for gender reassignment surgery, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Brown University has announced that it will begin to cover sex-change surgery this coming August, joining what has been a decade-long fight on behalf of […]
EDIT: State of the Union outlines plan of action
On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address, diplomatically re-highlighting many of the issues he touched upon in his Inaugural Address in January, including education costs and quality, climate change, war, gun control and the economy, and calling for a government that “encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative and opens […]
EDIT: Senate passes VAWA
The Senate passed its Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill Tuesday. This pushes the bill to the House, where, according to the Huffington Post, Republican leaders have failed to signal how they will proceed. It’s about time. VAWA is expanding its protections to vulnerable groups. U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed the vote as a […]
EDIT: Pope resigns, raises questions
Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation Monday. He is the first Pope in 598 years to do so — the last Pope did so in the midst of a papal leadership crisis known as the Great Western Schism, according to The New York Times. Pope Benedict is doing so because he fears his ailing strength […]
EDIT: Navy SEAL suffers lack of benefits
The Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden back in 2011 is reportedly struggling to reintegrate himself back into normal life. In a recent article in Esquire magazine, the shooter broke his silence about his life post-Osama, revealing that he has neither a job nor insurance, and is worried about the well-being of his family. […]
