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Month: August 2023

North Carolina legislature overrides governor’s vetoes to enact 3 bills targeting transgender youth

By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina legislature’s Republican supermajority voted to override vetoes from the state’s Democratic governor on a slew of bills Wednesday evening, including a trio of measures that target transgender youth. The House’s and Senate’s override votes, which passed largely along party lines, mean bills that ban gender-affirming care

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North Carolina legislature overrides governor’s vetoes to enact 3 bills targeting transgender youth

WTVD By Dianne Gallagher, CNN (CNN) — The North Carolina legislature’s Republican supermajority voted to override vetoes from the state’s Democratic governor on a slew of bills Wednesday evening, including a trio of measures that target transgender youth. The House’s and Senate’s override votes, which passed largely along party lines, mean bills that ban gender-affirming

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Stock market today: Asia follows Wall Street lower after Fed’s notes dent hopes of rate hikes ending

By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writers BEIJING (AP) — Asian stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after notes from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting dented hopes interest rate hikes are finished. Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul declined. Shanghai was unchanged. Oil prices were lower. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 lost 0.8% on Wednesday after minutes

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Publisher of raided Kansas newspaper ‘vindicated’ by prosecutor’s decision to return seized items after backlash

By Oliver Darcy, CNN (CNN) — The Marion County Record has been “vindicated.” That is what the weekly newspaper’s publisher, Eric Meyer, told KSHB-TV’s Jessica McMaster on Wednesday, immediately after learning that the top prosecutor in Marion County had withdrawn a search warrant executed on the publication’s office last week — a move that quickly

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New Mexico congressman in swing district seeks health care trust for oil field workers

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A bill aimed at compensating oil field workers and immediate relatives for uninsured medical costs related to air-pollution and heat-related illness has been introduced by a first-term congressman from New Mexico. Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez said Wednesday that his bill would require that energy

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Petro anuncia que comienza la renegociación del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia y EE.UU.

macamilarincon (CNN Español) –– El presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro, anunció este miércoles que su gobierno comenzó la “renegociación” del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre su país y Estados Unidos, sin que de momento se conozcan detalles concretos de esta iniciativa. Durante un discurso pronunciado en un acto público en Pitalito, Huila, en la zona

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Armenia and Azerbaijan clash over plight of 120,000 people in Nagorno-Karabakh facing food crisis

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Armenia and Azerbaijan clashed at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council over the plight of the 120,000 people in the Nagorno-Karabakh region that Armenia says are blockaded by Azerbaijan and facing a humanitarian crisis. Armenia sought Wednesday’s council meeting saying Azerbaijan’s blockade of

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