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News Wrap: U.S. and Ukraine sign minerals deal

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

41K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, Ukraine agreed to a deal giving the U.S. access to its rare-earth elements and resources like oil and natural gas, the Trump administration is pushing for more behavioral therapy for transgender youth instead of gender-affirming health care and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plans to recruit and retain more air traffic controllers. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Start the day's other headlines with more on the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

0:05.6

Today, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to strip legal protections for some 350,000 Venezuelan migrants.

0:13.6

If successful, that could lead to their deportation.

0:16.9

The DOJ wants the high court to put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco

0:22.0

that kept in place so-called temporary protected status for the migrants or TPS.

0:27.7

The program allows people already in the U.S. to live and work legally because their native

0:32.6

countries are considered unsafe.

0:35.0

The Trump administration is pushing for more behavioral therapy for transgender

0:39.5

youth instead of gender affirming health care. The guidance comes in a 409-page report from the

0:45.9

Department of Health and Human Services. It questions current treatment standards and reflects the

0:50.9

shift in the government's approach to transgender issues. The head of the National Institutes of Health, nominated by Trump,

0:57.6

says the goal is to, quote, follow the gold standard of science, not activist agendas.

1:02.8

But many medical experts disagree.

1:04.7

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has said that such conversion therapies can harm young people.

1:12.6

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plans today to recruit and retain more air traffic controllers to offset chronic staffing shortages.

1:21.6

That includes a 20% annual bonus for controllers who are near retirement age to stay on the job. Plus $5,000

1:29.3

bonuses to all academy graduates and new hires. The agency will also streamline getting new recruits

1:35.3

into the FAA Academy and will look to hire more former military controllers. Duffy says he'll lay out

1:41.9

plans next week to ask Congress for billions of dollars to fix the nation's crumbling air traffic control infrastructure. In cities around the globe, demonstrators took part in traditional Mayday marches today, with many taking aim at the policies of the Trump administration. The people united shall never be defeated.

2:03.6

Blocks from the White House, protesters marched against Trump's deportation policies,

2:08.6

saying workers' rights were also immigrants' rights.

2:12.6

Anger against Trump was also seen in places like Pakistan, while in the Philippines discontent boiled over

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