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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke issued a preliminary injunction to stop the state from enforcing the medication ban, which took effect May 8, while a …

By Mark Saunokonoko 22:55 Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is refusing to go quietly after being dumped from a NSW climate change board, accusing the state government of being swayed by global warming deniers and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Speaking on Today, Mr Turnbull claimed the Berejiklian government “couldn’t take the heat” from “thugs and …

No, you’re not imagining things. Evergreen, whose container ship Ever Given was just extracted from the Suez Canal Monday morning after blocking traffic through the vital Middle Eastern artery for days, was at the center of yet another bottleneck. A truck bearing one of its containers blocked a highway in China after what appeared to …

CAIRO — An enormous container ship became stuck while traversing the Suez Canal late Tuesday, blocking traffic through one of the world’s most important shipping arteries and threatening to add one more burden to a global shipping industry already battered by the coronavirus pandemic. The ship, which was heading from China to the port of …

(Updated at 4:55 p.m.) A large group of demonstrators blocked the outbound 14th Street Bridge between D.C. and Arlington during the evening rush hour. Protesters were sitting down across the main southbound bridge span, according to D.C. police, but then started marching towards Arlington. The group — said to number in the hundreds — previously …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, left, speaks to members of the media in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Democrats and Republicans on Monday continued negotiations over a massive stimulus funding package that failed to get enough votes in …

TikTok has apologised for blocking a US teenager from the Chinese-owned video sharing platform after she posted videos highlighting Beijing’s treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang. A spokesman for the platform on Thursday blamed a “human moderation error” for the removal of a video by 17-year-old Feroza Aziz disguised as a makeup tutorial to avoid being …

THE PROGNOSIS Roger Severino, director of the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) The Trump administration argues it needs better tools to investigate a growing pile of complaints from medical providers that their religious freedom has been violated. A federal judge dismissed its claims yesterday, in a ruling that blocks a new “conscience …

Sometimes, Les Miles magic seems to come out of nowhere, for no reason whatsoever, other than to make the impossible, possible. If this late-game series of events between Kansas and Texas Tech isn’t a sprinkle of that magic, I don’t know what is.  To set the scene, the Jayhawks and Red Raiders were tied at …