All posts tagged "Scouts"

The Pentagon has threatened to drop its decades-long military support for Scouting America, formerly known as Boy Scouts, according to reports Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been critical of the organization and its name change, particularly its decision to allow girls to join the formerly all-male youth program, according to The Washington Post.

The move is the Trump administration's most recent attack on diversity, inclusion and its focus on stopping what it has referred to as "wokeness." ...

WASHINGTON — Support for expanding the size of the Supreme Court continues growing at all levels of the Democratic Party.

Except one crucial one: the U.S. Senate — an institution brimming with elderly institutionalists who are about to hear an earful from those who want to add justices in a bid to pull the current court’s ideological tilt from the right back toward the center. Abortion, voting, guns and LGBTQ issues are at the top of their minds.

“We want to make sure that we are bringing the real-life impact on our patients and the people who are most impacted, bringing those stories forward for senators in 2024 and beyond,” Jacqueline Ayers, Planned Parenthood’s senior vice president for policy, campaigns and advocacy, told Raw Story. “As advocates, our role is going to be continuing to make sure that we're pushing the conversation forward.” ...

LONDON (AFP) – Scouting founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell was invited to meet Adolf Hitler after friendly talks with the Hitler Youth about forming closer ties, secret British files released Monday showed.