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Bill would prohibit teenagers from creating an account, and is now headed to the state’s Republican-controlled senate...

In recent years, China’s LGBTQ+ community has been swept up in the Chinese Communist party’s broader crackdown on civil society and freedom of expression. In May 2023, a well known LGBTQ+ advocacy group in Beijing announced it was closing due to “unavoidable” circumstances. Last February, two university students filed a...

Kremlin threatens ‘serious consequences’ if there is an unprecedented seizure of Russian assets held abroad...

National Retail Federation says 2021 data was flawed and based on congressional testimony from president of an advocacy group...

The fiance and killer of the domestic violence murder victim Gabby Petito desperately called his parents and told them that she was “gone” weeks before she was discovered dead – yet they later shared messages expressing hope that search efforts for her would end in success, her family has alleged....

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Education minister says ‘cases are piling up’ and that ‘an immediate response is needed’...

Ukraine president delivers upbeat message on war progress during second White House visit since Russian invasion...

US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins::US makes case Google leveraged power and wealth to strangle competition, spending billions on deals with Apple and Samsung

Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple::The move suggests that China, which is one of Apple’s biggest markets, is unwilling to spare any US company in fight to boost homegrown technology

Joe Biden’s doctor met with a leading Washington DC neurologist at the White House this year, it was reported on Saturday....

The White House has condemned an attack on an aid convoy heading to Gaza by Israeli settlers who threw packages of food into the road and set fire to the vehicles....

The UN has denied that the estimated death toll of women and children in the war in Gaza has been revised downward, pointing towards a confusion between the total numbers of dead bodies recorded, and the number of those who have so far been fully identified....

Spread of Tory losses leads former minister to say there’s ‘no such thing as a safe seat any more’...

Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos...

When Marisa Fernández lost her husband to cancer a few years ago, her employers at the Eroski hypermarket went, she says, “above and beyond to help me through the dark days afterwards, rejigging my timetable and giving me time off when I couldn’t face coming in.”...

Before dying earlier this month, Larry Webb confessed to killing Susan Carter and her child and burying their bodies in his yard...

The US has vetoed a Palestinian request to the United Nations security council for full UN membership, blocking the world body’s recognition of a Palestinian state....

It is against US law to provide weapons to forces who block United States humanitarian assistance. And that is exactly what is happening right now