Month: March 2023

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Track and field has banned transgender athletes from international competition while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing. The World Athletics council adopted the same rules as swimming did last year in deciding to bar athletes who have

By WILL WEISSERT and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden likes to say he’s the most pro-union president in U.S. history. When Biden announces his expected Democratic reelection campaign in the coming weeks, he’ll get the chance to prove it to his own staffers. Biden’s will be the first White House reelection

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police exchanged fire with assailants when they raided one of Rio de Janeiro’s slums to arrest alleged drug traffickers. Media reports said as many as 11 people were killed in the violence, but authorities did not immediately confirm any casualties. Police said the raid was tied to drug traffickers originally

By ARIJETA LAJKA and PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump getting gang-tackled by riot-gear-clad New York City police officers. Russian President Vladimir Putin in prison grays behind the bars of a dimly lit concrete cell. The highly detailed, sensational images have inundated Twitter and other platforms in recent days, amid news

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a pair of laws restricting the bathrooms transgender students can use and banning gender-affirming medical care amid a flood of legislation nationwide targeting the trans community. Doctors will have six months to cease prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. And transgender students will

By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of the Senate’s banking committee on Thursday warned former chief executive officers at the failed Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank that they expect them to testify before the panel, saying in a letter to each: “you must answer for the bank’s downfall.” The committee is

By ALICIA RANCILIO Associated Press Perhaps you know Josh Segarra from his scene-stealing role as Lance on HBO Max’s “The Other Two,” or remember him as a crooked district attorney of Star City in the CW’s “Arrow,” or you caught him on Broadway when he originated the role of Emilio Estevez in “ On Your

BERLIN (AP) — German unions are calling on thousands of workers across the country’s transport system to stage a one-day strike on Monday that is expected to bring widespread disruption to planes, trains and local transit. The ver.di service workers union and the EVG union announced the 24-hour walkout in a joint appearance Thursday that

By MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature is set to vote Thursday on a contentious bill that seeks to ban gender-affirming care for minors and led one lawmaker to stage an epic weekslong filibuster. The vote to advance the bill comes on the third day of debate that has

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s  Defense Ministry says the first four of 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that Slovakia decided to give Ukraine have been safely handed over to the Ukrainian air force. The ministry says the warplanes were flown from Slovakia to Ukraine by Ukrainian pilots with help from the Slovak air force, Ukrainian