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Wave of blue states become ‘refuge’ for child transgender surgeries and drugs

A number of blue states have passed laws allowing children to receive transgender surgeries and drugs, often without parental knowledge or consent.

Bangladesh, Myanmar brace as Cyclone Mocha makes landfall

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh and Myanmar braced Sunday as an extremely severe cyclone started to hit coastal areas and authorities urged thousands of people in both countries to seek shelter.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy arrives in Berlin to meet German leaders, discuss arms deliveries

BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin early Sunday for talks with German leaders about further arms deliveries to help his country fend off the Russian invasion and rebuild what's been destroyed by more than a year of devastating conflict.

Fundraiser for Jordan Neely suspect Daniel Penny reaches over $1.3 million

Attorneys for Daniel Penny, the man charged with manslaughter in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway this week, have raised over $1.3 million for his legal defense fund.

Biden heaps praise on Ketanji Brown Jackson after justice authors third majority opinion

President Joe Biden boasted that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was "brighter than the rest" of her colleagues during a speech on Saturday, just days after she authored her third majority opinion.

Democrats in Minnesota Senate hold firm to pass contentious gun control measures

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Democratic Minnesota senators held firm despite only a one-vote majority Friday to pass gun control legislation strongly supported by the governor that would align the battleground state with others nationally that have taken steps to keep guns out of the hands of people in crisis and criminals.

Census rejecting some big-city complaints of 2020 undercounts

Some of the largest U.S. cities challenging their 2020 census numbers aren’t getting the results they hoped for from the U.S. Census Bureau — an effort by Memphis to increase its official population resulted in three people being subtracted from its count during an initial appeal.

Israel, Islamic Jihad reach cease-fire to end 5 days of fighting

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, ending five days of intense fighting that left 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians, dead. Two people in Israel were killed by rocket fire.

Chaos on Mexico border averted, for now, as US turns page in migration rules

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The U.S. turned the page on pandemic-era immigration restrictions with relative calm at its border with Mexico as migrants adapted to strict new rules aimed at discouraging illegal crossings and awaited the promise of new legal pathways for entering the country.

Zelenskyy meets Pope Francis at Vatican and seeks backing for Ukraine’s peace plan

ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had private talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, later saying he sought support for Ukraine’s peace plan from the pontiff, who in the past has offered to try to help end the full-scale war launched by Russia a year ago.
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