The Washington Stand

Spanning throughout the U.S. and within the midst of the country’s medical education and residency programs, a silent ideological cleansing is occurring. For centuries, the Hippocratic Oath has existed as medicine’s north star of morality, an unwavering promise to preserve human life. Today, that honored commitment has become a career-ending liability.

Earlier this week, the House of Representatives voted 220-192 to approve a resolution condemning socialism. Only eight Democrats joined the Republicans in voting for the measure.

President Donald Trump is asking the United States Supreme Court for its approval to terminate over two dozen transgender-identifying military members from their posts. This comes 19 months after Trump signed an executive order to remove transgender-identifying individuals from the military, which Secretary of War Pete Hegseth swiftly implemented. But earlier this year, a group of 29 plaintiffs pushed back against Trump’s order in the case U.S. v. Talbott.

It happened twice. Both times, a genetic counselor calmly told my wife and me, “I want you to be aware of all your options, including termination.” For months, those conversations have replayed in my mind, bringing back the initial emotions of shock, anger, and horror. Now, as my wife and I prepare to meet our son in a matter of weeks, his story is already a testament to God’s power and faithfulness. Earlier this year, my wife Abby and I learned that we were expecting our second child.

The New York-based company Mayday.Health is advertising illegal abortion procedures in Kentucky, state Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday. “These out of state activists are not only breaking Kentucky law, they seem to delight in rubbing our faces in it,” Coleman said.

The House had a wild week for what was supposed to be a quick stopover in Washington between district work. And while most Americans don’t pay attention to the nitty-gritty of Congress, these last few days have been a real eye-opener on the things Democrats will do if they win the majority. And rejecting socialism isn’t one of them.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - U.S. military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and statements given to Reuters, a development that follows reports that commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East. The Air Force told Wyden it disabled the advertising identifiers on computers and mobile phones two months ago.

On today's News Brief: Lindsay Clancy trial judge rules a mistrial, Kentucky sues for illegal abortion pill advertising at gas stations, and President Trump requests SCOTUS tightens the use of mail-in ballots.

Last week, I asked in these pages whether Just War can survive as artificial intelligence moves warfare faster than human beings can meaningfully judge it. Developments since then raise a more troubling question: what happens when those machines do things their operators never intended? In July, OpenAI models circumvented controls meant to isolate them from the internet, exploited vulnerabilities, and compromised parts of OpenAI’s own infrastructure and Hugging Face’s systems.

A teenage Christian may not go to church with her mother unless her father permits it, according to a September 1 ruling by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The 13-year-old girl has not been allowed to gather with any church since December 2024, when Cumberland County Judge Jennifer Nofsinger, a lesbian, gave her father “final authority” over his daughter’s religious activity.