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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — As England’s National Health Service has decided to stop prescribing puberty blockers to minors with gender dysphoria or gender incongruence, many people are asking what those are and why they’re such a hot-button issue. “Puberty blockers are sort of like a man-made hormone analogue, and basically what they do
Continue ReadingBy COURTNEY BONNELL AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — McDonald’s apologized Friday for a global technology outage that shuttered some restaurants for hours. The company said the outage was caused by a third-party technology provider and was not a cybersecurity issue. It started around 12 a.m. CDT during a configuration change and was close to
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Alexandra Ferguson Llamado a la Tierra es una serie editorial de CNN comprometida con reportar los desafíos ambientales que enfrenta nuestro planeta, además de mostrar las soluciones a esos retos. La Iniciativa Perpetual Planet de Rolex se ha asociado con CNN para crear conciencia y educación sobre los asuntos de sostenibilidad claves y para inspirar acciones positivas.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN (CNN) — Searches for virtual private networking (VPN) software briefly spiked in Texas this week after Pornhub suspended service in the state over a law forcing adult websites to verify the age or identities of their users. The four-fold rise in Google searches for tools that can circumvent the state-level blocking
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger and Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medication for a common form of liver inflammation called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, the agency said Thursday. NASH — also known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH — happens when the liver becomes inflamed because of excess fat
Continue Reading CNNEspañol sjv (CNN Español) — Un grupo de legisladores republicanos, 8 senadores y 15 representantes, envió una carta al presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, para pedirle que designe al Tren de Aragua como una organización criminal transnacional. Los principales promotores de la misiva son el senador Marco Rubio y la representante María Elvira Salazar,
Continue ReadingBy GEIR MOULSON and VANESSA GERA Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany, France and Poland are vowing to procure more weapons for Kyiv and step up production of military equipment along with partners in Ukraine. Their leaders promised Friday that Ukraine can rely on the trio of European powers as it tries to overcome a
Continue ReadingBy GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The rights of LGBTQ+ people continue to be in flux across the U.S. with a new flurry of developments. A legal settlement has made it clear that teachers and students in Florida public schools can say “gay,” though instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity remains out of bounds. Arkansas
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top White House lawyer is encouraging Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson to end his chamber’s efforts to impeach the Democratic president over unproven claims he benefited from the business dealings of his son and brother. White House counsel Ed Siskel writes
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Long lines. Feeling bleary-eyed and exhausted after an overnight flight. Scrambling to get your documents ready. For most international travelers arriving in the US, going through immigration and customs is another step in the travel process – and it can take a little while. But international travelers arriving from
Continue ReadingBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian prosecutors say that 10 people are facing charges for stealing as many as 43,000 state decorations of honor from a government building. A statement on Friday said that the suspects colluded to carry out a “grave theft of state property” from the awards office that is located in an administration
Continue ReadingBy BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Protests at Kentucky’s Capitol can seem as commonplace as basketball pep rallies when Republican lawmakers are advancing bills that stir up opponents. But a protest last year against anti-transgender legislation — which resulted in arrests — has spurred a response from lawmakers. The Kentucky House has
Continue ReadingBy Olesya Dmitracova, Anna Cooban, Juliana Liu and Michael Nam, CNN London/Hong Kong/New York (CNN) — McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. At about 1 a.m. ET McDonald’s
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Mientras los seguidores de TikTok en Estados Unidos están preocupadas por perder el acceso a la popularísima aplicación de redes sociales, hay lecciones que pueden aprender de un país al otro lado del mundo. La Cámara de Representantes de EE.UU. aprobó un proyecto de ley el miércoles que podría llevar
Continue ReadingBy YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A Catholic activist in Belarus has been handed a three-year prison sentence on charges that Western diplomats have denounced as politically driven, the latest move in the authorities’ sweeping crackdown on the country’s civil society. Thirty-three-year-old Uladzislau Beladzed taught the catechism at the city’s Cathedral of
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN and THOMAS PEIPERT Associated Press DENVER (AP) — A major storm dumped over 4 feet (1 meter) of snow in northern Colorado before ending Friday, leaving thousands without power. The National Weather Service says between 10 and 20 inches fell in the Denver area and the foothills got 2 to 4 feet.
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled that thousands of low-level drug dealers are ineligible for shortened prison terms under a Trump-era bipartisan criminal justice overhaul. The justices on Friday settled a dispute among federal courts over the meaning of the word “and” in a muddy provision of the
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the court, said that officials
Continue ReadingBy MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the court, said that officials
Continue ReadingBy MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch government says that French defense industry heavyweight Naval Group has been chosen to build four new diesel-electric submarines for the Dutch navy. The government did not immediately announce the price tag for the new submarines. In a letter to lawmakers, the Ministry of
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