By Annette Choi, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-seven states have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights. An estimated 40% of transgender youth ages 13 to 17 live in these states,
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By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion icons like Dapper Dan, Janelle Monáe and the late André Leon Talley are known for their distinctive approaches to sartorial style — bold splashes of color, luxurious fabrics, playful construction, capes — but fashion savants and historians agree that a common thread weaves their tailored
Continue Reading By BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion icons like Dapper Dan, Janelle Monáe and the late André Leon Talley are known for their distinctive approaches to sartorial style — bold splashes of color, luxurious fabrics, playful construction, capes — but fashion savants and historians agree that a common thread weaves their tailored
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Michael Bolton has a new love of life after a recent scan revealed he is clear of the brain cancer that he was diagnosed with in 2023. The famed musician, 72, opened up about the shift in his outlook in an interview with People magazine published on Wednesday, saying
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — As artificial food dyes are becoming increasingly restricted at state and federal levels, some manufacturers are looking to switch to natural dyes to color their food products. US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced in an April 22 briefing that the agency plans to work with
Continue ReadingBy John MacLauchlan Click here for updates on this story DEERFIELD BEACH, Florida (WFOR) — A South Florida woman won a million-dollar prize surprise playing the Florida Lottery’s 50X The Cash scratch-off game. Mary Mayers Johnson, of Deerfield Beach, chose to receive her winnings in a one-time, lump-sum payment of $640,000. Johnson bought her winning ticket at
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker from Maine appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday after she was censured by the state House for a social media post about a transgender athlete, a move that comes amid sparring over the issue between the Democratically controlled state and the
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WCCO By Kirsten Mitchell Click here for updates on this story ST. PAUL, Minnesota (WCCO) — A family-owned toy store in St. Paul is joining a national legal fight, claiming President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports could devastate their business. Mischief Toy Store is among several businesses represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation in a
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By SEAN MURPHY and MARC LEVY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A least two people drowned when their vehicles were caught in floodwaters in Oklahoma on Wednesday as slow-moving thunderstorms inundated roads across parts of that state and Texas, authorities said, while Pennsylvania residents picked up from a powerful storm that left three people
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By AMANDA SWINHART and HOLLY RAMER The Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday released a Palestinian student at Columbia University who led protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship. Immigration authorities have arrested and detained college students from
Continue Reading By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN and ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A wildfire shut the main highway linking Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Wednesday, sending at least a dozen people to the hospital and turning skies over Jerusalem gray. Video footage showed vehicles stranded nearby as flames spread throughout the area, while another video showed
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — The REAL ID Deadline for Missouri is just one week away and residents could see longer wait times at the St. Joseph License Office. Outside of the St. Joseph License Office, residents have shown up at certain times of the day, aiming to beat the rush. “I tried to
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By JOSH FUNK and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Norfolk Southern began making promises to East Palestine, Ohio, soon after its train derailed and caught fire in February 2023, saying it would “make it right” after five tank cars of vinyl chloride were intentionally burned, sending up a huge black plume of smoke that spread more
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KGO By Luz Pena Click here for updates on this story SAN FRANCISCO, California (KGO) — Tuesday was National Fentanyl Awareness Day, highlighting the dangers of the drug that is killing thousands of people throughout the country. It’s been hard for local cities to tackle this crisis. The fentanyl crisis is nothing new for San
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ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — A surge of scam texts posing as toll payment alerts is hitting Missouri phones, prompting warnings from state officials. According to the Federal Trade Commission, more than 5,200 scam text complaints have been filed by Missourians in 2024 alone, a 26% spike compared to 2023. The messages claim the recipient has unpaid toll
Continue Reading By JOHN HANNA Associated Press EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: State lawmakers have introduced scores of proposals this year aimed at preventing government agencies from buying Chinese products, limiting Chinese gifts and grants to universities, restricting lobbying for Chinese interests and ending the investment of public funds in Chinese companies. The efforts in statehouses to undercut China’s economic
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By JIM VERTUNO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Elon Musk has for years made Texas a business home and playground, launching rockets, building cars, and dreaming about creating a utopian enclave for his workers on the rural outskirts of the state capital. Now, a new Musk project is on the brink of victory: an
Continue Reading By EVENS SANON and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Dozens of people swam and waded across Haiti’s longest river on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to flee gangs that launched a fresh attack on a city in the country’s central region that has been under siege for almost a week. The onslaught
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By Melissa Wright Click here for updates on this story Missouri (KMTV) — The two-week search for three missing girls in the Missouri River is now over. All three bodies have been found. Officials say today’s two recoveries haven’t been formally identified— but they believe they’re the missing girls. Late Tuesday morning, Lainana Green and
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — An American detained in Belarus has been freed, a US official told CNN on Wednesday. Youras Ziankovich was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and then was brought to Belarus’s capital Minsk, where he was accused of being part of a US-backed coup plot against Belarus’ strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko.
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Members of the Buchanan County Commission are touring East Buchanan Middle School on Wednesday afternoon and discussing a contract with the district superintendent.
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By Magdala Louissaint Click here for updates on this story WINTERBORO, Alabama (WVTM) — It’s shaping up to be a winning season for Winterboro High School’s boys and girls track teams. Both teams are coming off huge sectional wins over the weekend. “I came in second place in long jump, but I’m excited because I
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Moore Click here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, South Carolina (WYFF) — If you are in downtown Greenville Wednesday afternoon, you may see an AI-powered robot calf approaching shoppers. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said the 3D-printed cow head will ask leather-clad customers outside, “Are you wearing my mother?”
Continue Reading BRYCE CANYON CITY, Utah (AP) — Two people died in a 380-foot (116-meter) fall from a viewing area in southern Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park. Tourists spotted the bodies Tuesday below Inspiration Point after the two fell late Monday or early Tuesday, the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. How they fell was
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By Jamy Pombo Sesselman & Sera Congi Click here for updates on this story MILFORD, Massachusetts (WCVB) — A police K-9 rescued a missing child with autism who was found clinging to a tree at a small pond in Milford, Massachusetts, on Monday. Police received a 911 call just before 4 p.m. from a parent
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