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UK to Anyone Born After 2008: No Cigarettes for You
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: BBC News
Newly passed bill also restricts vaping near children and regulates e-cigarette marketing. Anyone in the UK currently 17 years old or younger will never be able to legally buy cigarettes under a sweeping new law that has cleared Parliament. The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which now awaits royal assent, gradually raises the legal age for buying tobacco each year, with the aim of preventing today's children from ever becoming smokers. Ministers will also gain wider authority over how tobacco, vapes, and other nicotine products are flavored, marketed, and packaged, reports the BBC.

Unprecedented ruling finds Hungary's anti-LGBTQ laws in breach of EU values
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: BBC News
The European Union's top court has ruled that Hungarian anti-LGBTQ laws violate EU rules and infringe its values of equality and minority rights. The laws were brought in by Viktor Orbán's government in 2021 and banned so-called promotion of homosexuality or gender change to under-18s, arguing it violated child protection laws. The European Court of Justice ruled that the Orbán reforms breached EU rules on a number of levels, and significantly that it also broke the founding values of Article 2 of the EU Treaty - an unprecedented finding.

Transgender Teen Shoots Up Turkish School
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Reduxx
A teenage shooter who perpetrated one of the deadliest school attacks in Turkish history has been identified as a non-binary male student who used “she/her/it” pronouns. ?sa Aras Mersinli, who carried out the attack on April 15, reportedly preferred to be referred to as “Konata” – a name belonging to his favorite female character from a Japanese animated series. The attack resulted in the deaths of at least nine people, eight students and one teacher. The teacher, Ayla Kara, died while attempting to shield students in her mathematics class. More than a dozen others were injured, some of whom remain in critical condition.

Opening statements in Harvey Weinstein's third Manhattan sex trial begin
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: New York Post
Maybe third time’s the charm? Opening statements in Harvey Weinstein’s third Manhattan sex crimes trial are set to begin Tuesday morning — as the disgraced former Miramax perv tries once more to shake off rape allegations from a former actress. The jury — comprised of seven men and five women — was finalized late Friday in Manhattan Supreme court, where they will decide whether Weinstein, 74, raped actress Jessica Mann inside a New York City hotel room over a decade ago.

Australian lesbian group’s fight to bar trans women
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Guardian
...to return to tribunal after federal court win.A Victorian lesbian group has won a legal appeal in its case to exclude transgender women from its public events after the federal court set aside a decision by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). The decision on Wednesday afternoon means the case will return to the administrative review tribunal for another determination. While the Lesbian Action Group called the finding a “definite win”, Equality Australia said the judge “simply identified legal errors in the tribunal’s reasoning”.

Israel to host largest LGBT festival in Middle East at Dead Sea in June
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Human Eve
The festival, called Pride Land, is scheduled to run from June 1 to June 4, 2026, and will take place in the Judean Desert. Israel is preparing to host what organizers say will be the largest LGBT festival ever held in the Middle East, with a multi-day event planned at the Dead Sea this summer. When Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, one of their targets was the Nova Music Festival, where the terrorists parachuted in and massacred young people.

Congress publishes list of 28 House investigations for sexual misconduct
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: New York Post
— in wake of major scandals. The House Ethics Committee published a list Monday of all its publicly disclosed sexual misconduct investigations into members stretching back to 1976. The 28 investigations spanned from former Reps. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) and Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) — both of whom resigned from the House last week — to the late Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio). In total, fourteen were Democrats and 12 were Republicans. The late Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) was twice investigated for pursuing a “sexual relationship with a staffer in 2014 and again in 2020.

UK pastor prosecuted for preaching gospel near hospital 'buffer zone'
Topic: Abortion
Source: Human Events
Authorities allege Johnston breached buffer zone restrictions designed to prevent protests around abortion facilities when he preached the gospel of John near a hospital. A 77-year-old pastor from Northern Ireland is set to appear in court this week after preaching a sermon on John 3:16 near a hospital. The case has garnered international attention including from American officials. Clive Johnston, a retired Baptist minister from Strabane, NI, faces charges under Northern Ireland’s Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act after delivering an open-air sermon on July 7, 2024, within 150 meters of Causeway Hospital in Coleraine. The case is scheduled to continue Wednesday at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court.

Case of Religious Schools That Ban LGTBQ+ Families Heads to SCOTUS
Topic: Children and Family
Source: LGTBQ Nation
Colorado Catholic preschools say they shouldn't be excluded from state funds over admissions policies. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case of a group of anti-LGBTQ+ Catholic pre-schools in Colorado, which believe they should receive money from a state-run, taxpayer-funded preschool program, even though the schools violate the program’s nondiscrimination provision by rejecting children who have LGBTQ+ parents. The Archdiocese of Denver, which runs 34 preschools, says the state program’s nondiscrimination provision violates the Church’s First Amendment right to practice freedom of religion without being excluded for its religious doctrine, which recognizes neither same-sex relationships nor transgender people.

Scientists Pinpoint Culprit in Pregnancy Sickness
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Nature Genetics
Study identifies gene, raising hope for treatments for debilitating condition. Scientists have their most solid lead yet on what drives the most severe form of morning sickness. A sweeping analysis of nearly 11,000 people with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG)—the debilitating nausea and vomiting that can land pregnant patients in the hospital—points to one hormone gene as the main player: GDF15. The study, published in Nature Genetics, found 10 genes tied to higher HG risk, with GDF15 emerging as the strongest signal across multiple ancestral groups.

House Ethics Panel Asks Victims to Come Forward
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Politico
The House Ethics Committee publicly asked Monday that victims and witnesses report sexual misconduct involving lawmakers or staff members to the panel, an unusual step even as criticism of the way Congress polices such cases is building. In a statement, the committee said it has adopted a "more aggressive and robust approach" to sexual misconduct over the past decade, the Washington Post reports, and noted it has opened 20 such investigations since 2017. The biggest obstacle the investigations face, the panel said, is persuading victims and witnesses to come forward. The committee pledged to protect their "confidentiality and safety."

French Prosecutors Summon Elon Musk
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: ABC News
Over Allegations of Abuse Images, Deepfakes on X. Elon Musk has been summoned to Paris on Monday, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content. The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — have been summoned for “voluntary interviews," while other employees of the platform are scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. It remains unclear whether Musk and Yaccarino will travel to Paris. A spokesperson for X did not respond to questions from The Associated Press and Yaccarino’s current company, eMed, did not answer a request sent to the press email.

Supreme Court Rejects Massachusetts Case Over Hiding Student’s Gender Identity
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CBS News
The case involves an 11-year-old girl. The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a legal battle testing whether a public school violates parents' rights when it encourages their child's social gender transition without their knowledge or consent.
In declining the appeal from Massachusetts parents who sued their child's school district, the high court left untouched a lower court ruling that rejected their claim that their rights had been violated. But the justices may have another opportunity to weigh in on the simmering issue of parental rights in public schools, since a similar case brought by parents in Florida is awaiting action by the high court.

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
Topic: Men's Movement
Source: BBC News
From before their babies are born, men undergo serious hormonal changes that can powerfully influence their behaviour – with consequences for their child's wellbeing. In the months before my son was born, my partner and I attended an active birth workshop, a breastfeeding session and the hospital-run antenatal course, read a small pile of pregnancy and baby books and scrolled through loads of websites. Our notepads quickly filled up.

Will Ukraine End Up Forcibly Conscripting Women To Fight On The Frontline?
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Remix News
There is no full mobilization of women yet, but Kiev is reportedly considering the move as their male population dwindles... Since Ukraine’s population has shrunk dramatically, the army’s number one problem is no longer the lack of weapons, such as ballistic missiles and air defense systems, but the lack of soldiers to operate them, writes Világgazdaság. The authorities in Kyiv, however, must bring the army size required by Commander-in-Chief Zelensky (800,000 active soldiers), and since the number of men eligible for military service (between the ages of 18 and 60) is slowly running out, the Ukrainian leadership is now trying to fill the gaps by conscripting women.

Russia Urges HIV Testing for One-Third of Population as Cases Rise
Topic: Porn, Prostitution, and Sexual Freedom
Source: Moscow times
Even so, World Health Organization data show Russia’s HIV prevalence at 890 cases per 100,000 people. That is comparable to several African countries such as Guinea (874), Liberia (944), Chad (771) and Ethiopia (601), and is markedly higher than in European countries including France (358), Britain (191) and Sweden (171). The total number of people living with HIV in Russia rose by 35,000 in 2025 to reach 1.25 million, according to Vadim Pokrovsky, head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for AIDS Prevention and Control.

Independent BYU LGBT center event
Topic: Gay/Lesbian Issues
Source: Campus Reform
The Cougar Pride Center, which describes itself as an independent resource center serving Brigham Young University (BYU) students, hosted an event titled “Provo Pride” on April 11, which featured an LGBTQ pride march through downtown Provo, Utah, followed by a pride festival at Memorial Park. The event featured more than a dozen LGBTQ-themed vendors and a concert with several LGBTQ performers, including drag queen Colette Coins, who self-describes as an “argumentative antithetical dreamgirl” on Instagram. One vendor stand at the festival featured apparent Molotov cocktails for sale alongside a painting of Donald Trump’s severed head being served on a platter

Epsom rape case exposes falling trust in police
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: Unherd
Surrey Police’s investigation of an alleged rape in Epsom, a commuter town to the south of London, provides a masterclass in how not to manage a 21st-century information vacuum. Reports of a gang rape, in a churchyard near a local nightclub, led to rumours that the suspects were immigrants or asylum seekers. Inevitably, allegations emerged that police officers were suppressing details. Surrey’s lethargic comms response then invited comparisons to Merseyside Police’s much-criticised reaction to the 2024 disorder in Southport. As tensions mounted, there were a series of protests in Epsom this week. The police response was to deploy officers in riot gear, leading to allegations of two-tier policing. Why, critics asked, didn’t the police deal with pro-Palestine protesters as robustly?

‘Intersectionality’ – The Destructive Ideology Balkanizing the Country
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Legal Insurrection
So intersectionality is essentially a group identity theory. It started relatively simply, as a way in which you can view different forms of discrimination. So it started as an employment law theory and the theory was, with regard to black women, that there are two forms of oppression working on them, or two forms of discrimination, one sex discrimination and one race discrimination. So far it’s understandable. But it has morphed into the dominant ideology on campuses and increasingly in radical circles in society.