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Fort Worth ISD trustees will vote May 7 on a $1.2 million contract for a mandatory gender identity curriculum in grades 3 through 5, according to three sources familiar with the proposal. The curriculum, titled Healthy Hearts, Open Minds, would take effect in August.

HHS will announce a final rule on May 7 restoring conscience protections for faith-based foster agencies, letting them keep roughly $380 million in annual contracts while referring cases that conflict with their beliefs, officials said.

Federal investigators are preparing civil investigative demands for Meta, Alphabet, and X over alleged coordination between platform trust and safety teams and the White House, according to employees and a congressional investigator.

A forthcoming GAO audit has identified about $4.2 billion in overlapping federal IT contracts across 14 agencies, with a public release scheduled for May 6 and an OMB freeze directive expected by May 8, according to three sources familiar with the report.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will award a $4.7 billion contract to privatize initial reviews of disability compensation appeals starting June 1, according to two VA officials and a veterans service organization representative.

The Education Department will issue a final rule this week requiring public school districts to notify parents within 72 hours when school staff treat a student by a name, pronoun, or facility matching a gender identity different from school records, three officials said.

The Treasury Department will blacklist a Chinese cybersecurity company and the Justice Department will unseal charges against three individuals linked to a multi-year intrusion into U.S. telecommunications networks, according to officials familiar with the plans.