Politics & Government

Hundreds of protesters packed into the Tennessee statehouse today as lawmakers debated expelling three Democratic House members. Republicans says the trio broke decorum during a gun control protest.

The state's law was challenged by a 12-year-old transgender girl named Becky Pepper-Jackson, who has lived as a girl since fourth grade, according to court papers.

The United Nations has a difficult balancing act in Afghanistan. The humanitarian needs are great. But the Taliban are no longer allowing female Afghan aid workers to deliver assistance.

On the heels of a Democratic state lawmaker's seismic shift to the Republican Party, North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority.

The review blames the "conditions created by his predecessor" for the way the U.S. ended its more than two-decade-long military presence in Afghanistan. It is being sent to Congress today.

In a rousing and personal farewell speech this week in parliament, the former prime minister touched on family, politics and one of the very few things she will ask of her colleagues as she departs.

RALEIGH, N.C.