This is the current affairs news briefing.

The federal government has rescinded anti-harassment guidelines that protected trans people.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rescinded the workplace harassment guidelines,

which were designed to help employers comply with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Originally written during the Me Too movement, the guidance allowed trans people to use their preferred bathroom.

The Republican-controlled entity said they made the change to align with Trump's decree

that there are only two sexes.

The EPA plans to stop animal testing by 2035.

Within a decade, mammals will no longer be used in labs

to test the toxicity of chemicals at the Environmental Protection Agency, reports the New York Times.

While this may be a win for animal rights, it could also reflect loosening standards at the EPA,

which has rolled back regulations on PFFS in water, a type of forever

chemical that can harm human health and has also shut down its research department.

Yay has apologized for Nazism in a full-page Wall Street Journal ad. It is, in fact, entirely

possible to stop being a Nazi, even if you once were one.

Just ask Yeh, formerly known as Kanye West, who purchased a full-page ad in the Wall Street

Journal, to apologize or his prior full-throated embrace of Nazi symbols and rhetoric.

In the past, Yey has used a Super Bowl ad to sell swastika merch, denied the Holocaust, praised Hitler, and sampled Hitler in a track called, you guessed it, Heil Hitler.

This isn't Yeh's first apology. He apologized in 2023 after Jonah Hill's performance in 21 Jump Street made him think Jews were okay

after all, before later reneging. This time around, Yeh blamed his prejudice on a frontal lobe

injury that he says caused his bipolar disorder. Only time will tell if he's serious about

regretting his actions, but we can absolutely buy the idea that a little

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