Idaho asks Supreme Court to let it enforce ban on transgender care (www.cnn.com)
Idaho officials asked the Supreme Court to let the state enforce a strict ban on gender-affirming treatments for minors in an emergency request made public Monday by one of the groups involved in the case....
Crew abandon British-registered cargo ship off Yemen after Houthi attack (www.bbc.com)
Europe seeks to sway Trump camp on NATO, Ukraine aid (www.reuters.com)
Even as they insist they are not dancing to Donald Trump’s tune on NATO, European leaders are singing from a song sheet designed to appeal to the former U.S. president and his Republican supporters....
Egypt setting up area at Gaza border which could be used to shelter Palestinians, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Egypt is preparing an area at the Gaza border which could accommodate Palestinians in case an Israeli offensive into Rafah prompts an exodus across the frontier, four sources said, in what they described as a contingency move by Cairo....
Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian country (www.cnn.com)
Some Pregnant Women and Infants Received the Wrong R.S.V. Shots (www.nytimes.com)
Al Jazeera journalist, cameraman wounded in Israeli strike on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
The two journalists were hit by an Israeli drone strike in Miraj, north of Rafah city. They were documenting the condition of displaced Palestinians crammed into the area as Israel intensifies its attacks by land, sea and air across the besieged enclave, killing more than 28,000 people....
Meta removes Instagram and Facebook accounts for Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (apnews.com)
8 Flagrant Ways the U.S-Backed Government in Pakistan Is Subverting the Election (theintercept.com)
Pakistan was supposed to go to polls last year. The country’s constitution has five-year terms for both the national and provincial assemblies as well as for the post of the prime minister. When the former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government was toppled in a parliamentary coup backed by the Pakistani military and the U.S....
Scientists code ChatGPT to design new medicine (medicalxpress.com)
Note: It’s not ChatGPT but a similar algorithm.
Trump's presidential bid hangs in the balance at the Supreme Court. Here's what to know (apnews.com)
On Thursday, the justices will hear arguments in Trump’s appeal of a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that he is not eligible to run again for president because he violated a provision in the 14th Amendment preventing those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office....
South Dakota has apologized and must pay $300K to transgender advocates (apnews.com)
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. Kristi Noem and her health secretary.
SpaceX just sent 2 Saudi astronauts—including the country’s first woman in space—to the ISS (fortune.com)
Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first woman from the kingdom to go to space....
WeWork’s Co-Founder Is Trying to Buy the Company (www.nytimes.com)
Archive link...
Big Companies Cashed In on Mississippi’s Water. Small Towns Paid the Price. (www.nytimes.com)
They vowed to fix water woes and save cities millions. But a Times investigation found the deals racked up debt and left many worse off than before....
Justin Timberlake Considers Opening Up to Oprah Amid Ongoing Britney Spears Controversy (menzmag.com)
Mother Urges Ban on Slushies for Children After Toddler’s Severe Reaction (thefashioncentral.co.uk)
Next court date for 5 ex-Canadian world junior hockey players in sex assault case set for April 30 (www.cbc.ca)
None of the five players — Michael McLeod and Cal Foote of the New Jersey Devils, Dillon Dubé of the Calgary Flames, Carter Hart of the Philadelphia Flyers and former NHLer Alex Formenton — appeared on the video link in the procedural hearing....
10 Guards, 900 Inmates and the Dire Results of Warnings Ignored at Wisconsin’s prisons (www.nytimes.com)
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US says strikes on Iran-linked militias just ‘the beginning’ of its response (www.theguardian.com)
US airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East were just the beginning of a sustained response, the White House national security adviser warned on Sunday, as he refused to rule out strikes on Iranian soil....
6-year-old girl in Gaza goes missing after she is caught in fighting (www.nbcnews.com)
Barry John: Legendary Wales and Lions fly-half dies aged 79 (www.bbc.co.uk)
The King is dead
Russian police detain journalists and protesters in Moscow (lemmy.ml)
A demonstration by wives of soldiers fighting in Ukraine was disrupted by the police on Saturday, who arrested at least 20 journalists who were covering the event in Moscow’s Red Square.
An Iranian-backed militia official downplays the US strikes in Iraq, hints at deescalation (www.politico.com)
The Iraqi government has been in a delicate position since a group of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias began launching attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria on Oct. 18....