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News Wrap: Supreme Court will hear transgender athlete cases in its next term

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases next term on whether states may exclude transgender athletes from womens' and girls' sports, Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he endured "severe beatings" and torture while being held at a notorious prison in El Salvador and the Chicago suburb where Pope Leo grew up will buy his childhood home and turn it into a historical site. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

These other headlines start at the Supreme Court. The justices will hear two cases next term

0:05.5

on whether states may exclude transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports. The cases,

0:11.7

one in Idaho and one in West Virginia, involve lower court rulings that cited in favor of transgender

0:18.2

athletes at both the K-12 and college levels.

0:22.3

This comes just two weeks after the High Court upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

0:28.7

And just this week, the University of Pennsylvania resolved a federal civil rights case

0:33.5

by agreeing to limit transgender participation in sports.

0:38.7

Kilmar Obrego-Garcia says he endured severe beatings and other forms of torture

0:43.9

while being held at a notorious prison in El Salvador.

0:48.1

It's his first account of his time there after the Trump administration mistakenly deported

0:53.1

him back in March.

0:54.9

In a new court filing, Abraigo Garcia described being stripped naked, head shaved, beaten, and forced to kneel for nine hours straight overnight.

1:05.3

He says he lost more than 30 pounds in two weeks.

1:08.9

Abrago Garcia is currently being held at a Tennessee jail as he awaits

1:13.1

trial on human smuggling charges. Health officials in Gaza say Israeli gunfire and airstrikes

1:19.9

killed nearly 100 Palestinians across the strip overnight and into today. Forty-five of

1:26.3

those deaths were Gazans attempting to get food from

1:29.2

aid distribution sites. Israel maintains that it targets only Hamas militants or fires warning

1:36.0

shots to keep crowds at bay. Strikes across the strip also hit displaced Palestinians who were

1:42.3

sheltering and sleeping in tents.

1:45.0

In southern Gaza, at least 13 members of a single family were killed.

1:49.0

Another strike left 15 dead at a school in northern Gaza City.

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