WASHINGTON (AP) — A year off between high school and college is becoming a popular choice for U.S. students and it has caught the eye of President Barack Obama's daughter, Malia. The White House says the high school senior will enter Harvard in 2017, not later this year as had been widely expected.
The elder of Obama's daughters is a senior at Sidwell Friends, an exclusive private school in the District of Columbia that helped educate another first daughter, Chelsea Clinton, in the 1990s. Malia is set to graduate in June and turn 18 in July. Her sister, Sasha, 14, is a Sidwell freshman.
BOSTON – Massachusetts legislative leaders took steps Friday to push through a "bathroom bill" that would ensure access to public restrooms and locker rooms to transgender people based on their gender identity rather than their anatomy, adding language to one version that would guide law-enforcement action against anyone "who asserts gender identity for an improper purpose."
The revised version is pending in the House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press. It said the redrafted House bill includes the enforcement provision apparently as a way to appease concerns raised by critics who said the original bill would jeopardize the privacy and safety of women and children. Supporters of the measure say those concerns are baseless.
