AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek medical care for their children. The 8-1 ruling from the all-Republican court leaves in place a law that has been in effect…
WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a major blow to federal regulatory power on Friday by overturning a 1984 precedent that had given deference to government agencies in interpreting laws they administer, handing a defeat to President Joe Biden’s administration. The justices ruled 6-3 to set aside lower court decisions against…
WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) – The Republican lawmaker who leads the House Armed Services Committee has written to the Biden administration formally demanding it shut down its aid pier off the coast Gaza, calling the operation ineffective, risky and a waste of money. The offshore floating pier, announced by Biden in March as a response…
SEOUL, June 27 (UPI) — North Korea successfully conducted its first multiple-warhead missile test, state media reported Thursday, one day after South Korea said the North’s latest missile launch ended in failure. “The DPRK Missile Administration successfully conducted the separation and guidance control test of individual mobile warheads [on Wednesday],” Korean Central News Agency reported….
The mission is intended to combat the country’s rampant gang violence What happened Some 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission. The deployment is the first wave of an expected 2,500-person law enforcement effort sanctioned by the United Nations to combat gang violence roiling…
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Armored vehicles rammed the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt against President Luis Arce, but he vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to stand down. The soldiers later pulled back as supporters of Arce waved Bolivian flags and cheered…
NAIROBI, June 25 (Reuters) – Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature on Tuesday, with at least five protesters killed, dozens wounded and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed legislation to raise taxes. In chaotic scenes, protesters overwhelmed police and chased them away in an attempt to…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shelled out half a million dollars to fly to a remote island to avoid returning to the American mainland after accepting a plea deal with the US government and being freed from prison. Assange, 52, was freed Monday morning from UK prison and flew from London Stansted Airport to the US territory of…
A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the first samples ever taken from the far side of the moon. Chinese state television broadcast images Tuesday of the capsule holding the samples, as it floated down under parachute onto the grassy steppe of Inner Mongolia. Scientists say the rocks inside the little space capsule could…
June 25 (UPI) — Israel’s Supreme Court ordered a full draft of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the country’s military Tuesday and an immediate freeze on government funding of religious educational institutions, or yeshivas, that do not comply. The unanimous decision by an extended nine-judge panel of the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem is likely…