Teens

Supreme Court leans in favor of state laws that ban hormone treatments for trans teens
WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court’s conservatives said Wednesday they are inclined to uphold state laws in half the nation that prohibit the use of hormone treatments for transgender teens.Led by...
Supreme Court weighs FDA’s power to prohibit new vaping products for teens
WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court on Monday did not sound ready to sharply limit the power of the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the sale of new candy-colored vaping...
Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
WASHINGTON —  The conservative Supreme Court is poised to leap into another culture-war battle between red states and blue states, this time involving medical rights of transgender teens and their...
Into the Phones of Teens
About midway through “Social Studies,” Lauren Greenfield’s new five-part FX docuseries about teens and their relationship to social media, we see one of the show’s protagonists—an eighteen-year-old University of...
Israeli media reports 10 children, teens dead after Hezbollah attack
In a tragic escalation of cross-border violence, ten people, primarily children and teenagers, were killed on Saturday when a rocket struck a football pitch in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights,...
Attention parents: Your teens aren’t coping nearly as well as you think they are
Most U.S. teens aren’t always getting the social and emotional support they need, and most of their parents have no idea, according to a new report from the Centers...
Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens
WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a major case on transgender rights and decide whether states may prohibit the use of puberty blockers and other hormones...
Florida shark attacks update: Teen’s first words after surgery
Survivors of last week's unusual flurry of shark attacks in Florida's Walton County are recovering from amputations and other severe injuries.A 45-year-old woman and two teenage girls were injured...