By GEOFF MULVIHILL and CARLA K. JOHNSON Associated Press The Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Most Republican-controlled states have adopted such laws in the past few years. The laws generally bar puberty-blocking drugs and hormone treatments for those whose gender identity does not
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge from Republican-controlled states to a horse racing safety law that has led to national medication and anti-doping rules. The justices on Monday left in place an appeals court ruling that upheld the law and rejected claims that Congress gave too much power to the Horseracing
Continue ReadingBy DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For one weekend day this fall in New York — and for a price — MSNBC fans can see many of their favorite personalities in real life. The “Democracy 2024” event invites fans for some panel discussions, a reception, even a sit-down dinner. It’s part
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality television star convicted of downloading child sexual abuse images. Duggar was on the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” with his large family before his 2021 conviction. Lower courts have upheld his conviction, rejecting
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By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to revisit a long-running lawsuit filed by the families of Holocaust survivors seeking compensation from Hungary and a state-run railway for property seized from Jewish victims in the 1940s. The case questions how far parties must go to prove that property seized during World
Continue ReadingKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia Airlines says one of its plane en route to Bangkok made a U-turn back to Kuala Lumpur International Airport after experiencing a “pressurization issue.” It said the pilots initiated an emergency descent although cabin altitude was not exceeded and passenger oxygen masks were not deployed. It said the aircraft
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis has appointed the longtime secretary of the late Pope Benedict XVI, who was sent back to his native Germany without a new assignment last year after a falling-out with the current pontiff, as the Vatican’s diplomatic representative to the Baltic states. The Vatican announced in its daily bulletin Monday that
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Please disregard US-MED–HIV-Latinos-Localize It, published on Jun. 24, 2024, and datelined in CHARLOTTE, N.C. It is meant for member newsrooms, not the general public.
Continue ReadingBy VANESSA G. SANCHEZ and PHILLIP REESE/KFF Health News and DEVNA BOSE/Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: While estimated new HIV infection rates declined 23% in the United States from 2012 to 2022, a KFF Health News-Associated Press analysis found the rate has not fallen for Latinos as much as it has for
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The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care.
Continue Reading By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the Biden administration’s challenge to a transgender care ban in Tennessee, delving into the complicated and politically fraught issue of gender-affirming care in a substantive way for the first time. The state law, enacted last year, bans hormone
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The United States will fund the printing of more than three million textbooks for Ukrainian students to use in the coming school year amid escalated Russian attacks on Ukrainian printing facilities that are part of Moscow’s war “against the Ukrainian people,” US senior administration officials told CNN. “By striking
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN WITTE Associated Press The cargo ship Dali is headed out of Baltimore for Virginia. It departed Monday morning, nearly three months after it lost power and crashed into one of the Francis Scott Key bridge’s supporting columns and caused the bridge to collapse. The 984-foot Dali started moving shortly before 8:30 a.m. with
Continue ReadingBy LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer At least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70,000 women and 500,000 babies worldwide every year. New blood tests may help doctors predict and manage the condition. One test is designed to be performed between
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN) — Dicen que la belleza está en los ojos del que mira. Y el concurso anual del Perro más feo del mundo descubrió el viernes algunos auténticos diamantes en bruto en la Feria de Sonoma-Marin, en Petaluma, California. Wild Thang, un pequinés de 8 años, fue coronado ganador y se llevó el premio
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By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A lifeguard and surf instructor – who also appeared in movies including “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Blue Crush” – died Sunday following an apparent shark attack on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, according to officials. Tamayo Perry, 49, was an “eight-year veteran of Honolulu Ocean Safety
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By Barry Neild, CNN (CNN) — Human beings weren’t designed to fly through the sky at 40,000 feet in a pressurized metal tube – with our aching limbs, burbling gastric systems and willful propensity to annoy other airborne human beings. If, however, we absolutely must, the way to make that experience the best it can
Continue ReadingBy MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor decided to make the most of his new technology —
Continue ReadingBy SAM MEDNICK and MOHAMMAD JAHJOUH Associated Press KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — An influx of aid appears to have eased a hunger crisis in northern Gaza for now, but the entire territory remains at “high risk” of famine after Israel’s offensive in Rafah caused displacement and the disruption of aid operations in the
Continue ReadingBy WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Car dealerships in North America are still wrestling with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a company whose software is used widely in the auto retail sales sector. CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the
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