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Tuesday’s PBS News Hour covered the Supreme Court taking up two cases involving the rights of biological males to compete alongside females in high school and college athletics. The News Hour performed its usual pro-LGBTQ+ propaganda, even with its previously most active ideological stuntwoman on the issue, Laura Barron-Lopez, now ensconced at left-wing MS Now. The pro-trans favoritism and word choice remains (the segment appeared under the on-screen rubric "Trans in America"), though perhaps a little defeatism has crept into the tone. Amna Nawaz: One of the most hotly debated political issues in recent years made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court today. At issue, can transgender athletes compete alongside women and girls? The conservative majority seemed skeptical of striking down sports bans already in place in over half of all states. But, for over three hours, the justices examined the constitutional arguments over science and whether trans athletes are competing on an equal playing field…. Liz Landers: Becky Pepper-Jackson says she's not much different than other teenagers. She plays multiple instruments and likes to spend time at home with her pets. But the West Virginia high school student has spent years at the center of a political firestorm, because, as a transgender girl, she's looking to stay on her school's track team. That's despite a state law that bars transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams at public schools and colleges. So biological male Pepper-Jackson was forbidden to compete for a spot on the boy’s track team? Landers: Both Pepper-Jackson and [24-year-old track athlete Lindsay Hecox at Boise State University] Hecox live in one of the 27 states that have a law or regulation that prevents transgender girls and women from participating in sports based on their gender identity. And both have fought years-long legal battles to maintain the right to compete in track and field, while Republican leaders fought them in court. President Trump also signed an executive order last year threatening to withhold federal funding from programs that allow transgender women and girls to compete in women's sports. Joshua Block, ACLU: All that we're asking for is basic fairness and letting Becky have the same childhood experience as anyone else…. Landers: Joshua has represented Pepper-Jackson for several years for the ACLU. He says she doesn't have an unfair physiological advantage against other girls her age because she's been taking puberty-blocking medication since the third grade. While Landers did quote collegiate soccer player Lainey Armistead, a sympathetic opponent of males competing in women’s sports, Landers still slipped into pro-trans, anti-scientific talking points. Landers: There's been little scientific research on if transgender women actually have an advantage against their competitors. Perhaps there’s been “little scientific research” because scientists have been warned away from the controversy by a left-wing academic edifice that treats any hint of dissent from the transgender line as dangerous bigotry. (Though there’s been some.) Dr. Bradley Anawalt: The caveat to all of this is that we don't have a lot of high-quality data. Landers: Dr. Bradley Anawalt is an endocrinologist and professor at the University of Washington who has advised athletic associations on hormone use in sports. He says that transgender girls who were prescribed puberty-blockers like Pepper-Jackson have few biological differences from their teammates. Anawalt: The ability to do something, a feat of strength over a short period of time, speed or endurance events, all of those advantages that might occur with testosterone don't occur with these people that are started on gender-affirming hormone therapy and specifically puberty blockers shortly after the development of puberty. Certain biological advantages like superior male lung capacity and a larger heart don’t recede, even after so-called “gender-affirming” actions. And once again, a previously taxpayer-funded outlet can find a “conservative” group to label --Alliance Defending Freedom -- but not a liberal one like the ACLU. Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defending Freedom: It will be women and girls that suffer the most when biological distinctions are not recognized in the law when those distinctions matter. Landers: Kristen Waggoner is the president of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that's worked alongside Idaho and West Virginia in both cases. After quotes from oral arguments from Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson, contributor Amy Howe of the SCOTUSblog tossed unfriendly ideological labels around. Landers: News Hour Supreme Court analyst and SCOTUSblog co-founder Amy Howe says it's likely the court's conservative majority will side with the states based on today's arguments. Amy Howe: This is a conservative court, and conservative groups and conservative plaintiffs see the opportunity to bring these kinds of cases to the court because they believe they will find a receptive audience. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 1/13/26 7:20:26 p.m. (ET) Amna Nawaz: One of the most hotly debated political issues in recent years made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court today. At issue, can transgender athletes compete alongside women and girls? The conservative majority seemed skeptical of striking down sports bands already in place in over half of all states. But, for over three hours, the justices examined the constitutional arguments over science and whether trans athletes are competing on an equal playing field. Liz Landers has a closer look at the legal and political fight before the nation's highest court. Liz Landers: Becky Pepper-Jackson says she's not much different than other teenagers. She plays multiple instruments and likes to spend time at home with her pets. But the West Virginia high school student has spent years at the center of a political firestorm, because, as a transgender girl, she's looking to stay on her school's track team. That's despite a state law that bars transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams at public schools and colleges. Becky Pepper-Jackson, Transgender High School Athlete: Letting these awful laws and bills just stand is not something that should happen. Liz Landers: Her case is one of two before the nation's highest court, as justices weigh if statewide bands against transgender students from participating in women's sports are constitutional. Some female athletes have stepped in to support bans, saying it's an issue of fairness. Lainey Armistead, Former Soccer Captain, West Virginia State University: I love soccer and it opened up opportunities for me that I never would have had without it. Liz Landers: Lainey Armistead played soccer at West Virginia State University. She intervened in the case to defend the ban in 2021 while she was a student. Lainey Armistead: The West Virginia law doesn't exclude anyone from playing sports. It just promotes a safe and fair category for women. Liz Landers: In the years since, Armistead has dedicated her time to fight for the bans in court and at a United Nations event. Lainey Armistead: This stance is about preserving biological reality and saying women deserve a fair place to play, a safe place to play and not be put at risk. Liz Landers: The second case before the court today centers around Lindsay Hecox, a young woman who previously competed in track at Boise State University in Idaho The "News Hour" spoke to her in 2021 at the start of her legal battle. Lindsay Hecox, Transgender Athlete: Gender dysphoria just sucks. You don't get to be the person you were meant to be just because of some random luck when you were born. Liz Landers: Both Pepper-Jackson and Hecox live in one of the 27 states that have a law or regulation that prevents transgender girls and women from participating in sports based on their gender identity. And both have fought yearslong legal battles to maintain the right to compete in track and field, while Republican leaders fought them in court. President Trump also signed an executive order last year threatening to withhold federal funding from programs that allow transgender women and girls to compete in women's sports. Joshua Block, ACLU: All that we're asking for is basic fairness and letting Becky have the same childhood experience as anyone else. My name is Josh Block. Liz Landers: Joshua has represented Pepper-Jackson for several years for the ACLU. He says she doesn't have an unfair physiological advantage against other girls her age because she's been taking puberty-blocking medication since the third grade. Joshua Block: So, that's one of the fundamental problems with laws like this, these sweeping bans, is that they refuse to look at the individual, that the whole point of our civil rights laws and the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause is that people should be recognized as individuals and not just part of amorphous groups. Liz Landers: There's been little scientific research on if transgender women actually have an advantage against their competitors. Dr. Bradley Anawalt: The caveat to all of this is that we don't have a lot of high-quality data. Liz Landers: Dr. Bradley Anawalt is an endocrinologist and professor at the University of Washington who has advised athletic associations on hormone use in sports. He says that transgender girls who were prescribed puberty-blockers like Pepper-Jackson have few biological differences from their teammates. Dr. Bradley Anawalt: The ability to do something, a feet of strength over a short period of time, speed or endurance events, all of those advantages that might occur with testosterone don't occur with these people that are started on gender-affirming hormone therapy and specifically puberty blockers shortly after the development of puberty. Liz Landers: While it may be the first time the court has weighed in on transgender athletes, it's one of a series of recent cases focused on transgender students. Just last year, a majority of justices upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors. In the court's majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court will leave the issue to -- quote -- "the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process." That ruling could signal how the court might decide this case. Kristen Waggoner, Alliance Defending Freedom: It will be women and girls that suffer the most when biological distinctions are not recognized in the law when those distinctions matter. Liz Landers: Kristen Waggoner is the president of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group that's worked alongside Idaho and West Virginia in both cases. Kristen Waggoner: There are hundreds of girls and women who have been displaced, and let's be clear about what that means. It doesn't just mean that they don't get podiums. It actually means that they do lose scholarships, which then means that they don't have access to higher education in the same way that they should. Liz Landers: In oral arguments, Justice Brett Kavanaugh expressed those same concerns about displacing women in sports and how different courts have ruled on the issue. Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: And so one way to resolve it, as you say, is the facts, try to figure out, is there really a competitive advantage? I think we're going to get a lot of scientific uncertainty about that, a lot of debate about that, a lot of different district courts. Liz Landers: Block and the ACLU acknowledge Pepper-Jackson may face an uphill battle. Joshua Block: Athletics is so unique. There really is no justification for West Virginia and Idaho to try to use this really unique context to establish a sweeping principle that the government can freely discriminate against transgender people. Liz Landers: It's a point that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson also made in arguments today. Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice: I guess I'm struggling to understand how you can say that this law doesn't classify on the basis of transgender status. The law expressly aims to ensure that transgender women can't play on women's sports teams. So why is that not a classification on the basis of transgender status? Liz Landers: "News Hour" Supreme Court analyst and SCOTUSblog co-founder Amy Howe says it's likely the court's conservative majority will side with the states based on today's arguments. Amy Howe: This is a conservative court, and conservative groups and conservative plaintiffs see the opportunity to bring these kinds of cases to the court because they believe they will find a receptive audience. Liz Landers: Until that ruling, the political firestorm over fairness in women's sports will continue on and off the field. For the "PBS News Hour," I'm Liz Landers.

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have refused to honor congressional subpoenas requiring them to testify about Jeffrey Epstein and the federal government’s handling of his crimes.The former president and secretary of state responded with a sharply worded letter to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) — also posted publicly on X — dismissing the probe as partisan politics designed to distract from the Trump administration’s failures, including aggressive ICE operations; January 6 pardons; threats to funding and free speech for universities, media companies, and law firms; the dismantling of national security agencies (such as USAID); and the weaponization of the Department of Justice.“Every person has to decide when they have seen or had enough and are ready to fight for this country, its principles and its people, no matter the consequences. For us, now is that time,” the letter declares.“Really? Now? ... Now, when you’re asked to testify in front of Congress under subpoena about Epstein? That’s the straw that broke the camel's back?” Glenn Beck retorts, calling the timing of their sudden “fight” for “principles” suspiciously convenient.Their letter and refusal aren’t about justice or principle at all — they’re about what the Clintons have always prized most: self-preservation. In the letter, Washington’s most scandal-ridden, slippery duo wrote, “You accepted the least from those who know the most but demand the most from those who know the least. To say that you can't complete your work without speaking to us is simply bizarre.”Glenn finds this statement so absurd, it’s almost funny. “Is there anybody that was closer to Epstein than Bill and Hillary Clinton? I mean, maybe not Hillary, but Bill? I mean, he was there all the time,” he claps back. “In the stairway of the Epstein mansion was that weird-ass picture of Bill Clinton in the dress with his legs draped over wearing heels.”The letter also addressed the potential for contempt of Congress charges. “We expect you will direct your committee to seek to hold us in contempt,” they wrote, denouncing such an act as a partisan move that will only halt Congress.In 2022, however, Hillary Clinton publicly supported holding both Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro — former Trump advisers — in contempt of Congress for defying the Jan. 6 subpoenas.But now that the same fate is staring them in the face, the Clintons are suddenly calling it “injustice.”“You don’t get to suddenly sound like James Madison after you spent four straight years trying to put Donald Trump in prison by any means necessary,” Glenn says, recalling that “it was Hillary Clinton that started the whole Russiagate thing.”“[The Clintons] did everything — Russian collusion, manufactured intelligence, leaked FISA warrants, media operation masquerading as journalism, all of that stuff,” he continues. “Now, we know that all of this stuff is based on lies, so when I hear warnings about the Justice Department being used as a cudgel, ... when I hear lectures about intimidation and subpoena and punishments of enemies, you know, I don’t dismiss them, but I also don’t forget who the people were that normalized it.”The truth is, everyone who was tied to Epstein in any way — not excluding President Trump — should be questioned, Glenn says.“Doesn’t mean they all go to jail. Doesn’t mean they all did something. But you should be questioned — all of them,” he says.“I don’t want show trials. I don’t want immunity for friends or punishment for enemies. ... I want equal justice under the law — you know, the kind written in the Constitution and almost never practiced by anybody in power lately.”But Glenn knows the odds of real justice ever catching up to the Clintons are slim to none.“They’re above it all,” he acknowledges.To hear more of Glenn’s commentary, watch the video above.Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A wife sleeping next to her husband said she was awakened by a loud noise and heard some liquid dripping before turning on the light and finding out it was blood, according to Pennsylvania police.Court documents say 42-year-old Douglas Dietz was shot and killed by their adopted son, an 11-year-old boy, over a Nintendo Switch gaming console.He allegedly described opening the safe, removing the gun, and walking to his father's side of the bed.Even more shocking, the incident occurred after the family celebrated the boy's birthday.Police said they responded to the home on South Market Street in the borough of Duncannon early on Tuesday morning at about 3:20 a.m. They found Dietz dead from a shot in the head in his bedroom.Police noted that the parents' bedroom was connected through a closet to their son's bedroom.Dietz's wife told them she had smelled a strong scent like fireworks when she awoke to discover her husband shot after turning on the lights.Their son, Clayton Dietz, allegedly entered the room and said, "Daddy's dead."Police also reported that they heard the boy say, "I killed Daddy," to their mother.When police questioned him, he said that the family had a good time but that he grew angry at his father when he was told to go to bed."He admitted that he had someone in mind whom he was going to shoot, whom he identified as his father," police wrote in their report.The boy said that he found the key to their gun safe when he was looking for his Nintendo Switch that had been previously taken away. He allegedly described opening the safe, removing the gun, and walking to his father's side of the bed."He pulled back the hammer and fired the gun at his father," police said.The boy faces homicide charges.RELATED: Man admitted to killing his mother and then beheading her, South Dakota police say A neighbor named Jesse Weldon told WGAL-TV that he was shocked by the incident."They're very kind. I mean, I didn't talk to them much. They, you know, kept to themselves over there and just seemed pretty nice. I didn't expect this," Weldon said.The boy was booked into the Perry County Prison, where he is being held without bail.The couple adopted the boy in 2018, when he would have been about 3 years old.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!