By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in a case likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in
Continue ReadingBy MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Billie Eilish is hitting the road. The pop performer will embark on a worldwide arena tour this fall. It kicks off in Quebec City in Canada on Sept. 29 and concluding in Dublin on July 27, 2025. She’ll hit many major cities in North America
Continue ReadingQUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s Foreign Minister says it filed a complaint against Mexico’s government at the United Nations’ top court over the decision to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to a highly criticized raid on the Mexican Embassy. Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the complaint
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The state of Texas is suing the Biden administration over recently announced federal protections for LGBTQ+ students, arguing the Department of Education overstepped its authority by expanding the scope of a landmark anti-sex discrimination law. The lawsuit brought Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was filed at a
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Matt Ryan, who retired last week after 15 years in the NFL, will join CBS Sports as a studio analyst on “The NFL Today” and Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason will leave after long runs on the show, the network announced Monday. Ryan will join James Brown, Nate Burleson, Bill Cowher
Continue ReadingBy OLEG CETINIC Associated Press PARIS (AP) — A lawyer for Gérard Depardieu says French police are no longer holding the actor, following a day of reported questioning Monday over accusations by two women that he sexually assaulted them on movie sets. The lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais, said: “The police custody is over. He is no
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Matt Ryan, who retired last week after 15 years in the NFL, will join CBS Sports as a studio analyst on “The NFL Today” and Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason will leave after long runs on the show, the network announced Monday. Ryan will join James Brown, Nate Burleson, Bill Cowher
Continue ReadingBy ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Morbidity and Mortality Report last week that documented the first instances of HIV transmissions contracted through unsterile injections used while receiving “vampire facials,” cosmetic procedures involving microneedling. Three women were diagnosed with HIV after getting the services at an unlicensed
Continue ReadingBy SEUNG MIN KIM and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Sunday about cooperating on migration policy. The conversation came as Biden continues to consider whether to take executive action that would crack down on the number of migrants arriving at
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The family of the Black teenager who was shot in the head after ringing the doorbell of the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, last year, filed a lawsuit Monday on his behalf against the White man who shot him and the residential homeowners association where
Continue ReadingBy Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — The Group of Seven nations announced Tuesday its member nations would end the use of “unabated” coal by 2035, but left the door open for countries to stretch that deadline in particular contexts. In a communiqué published after talks between energy, climate and environment ministers in Turin, Italy, the
Continue ReadingBy SYLVIA HUI Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British and Irish officials have met as tensions rise over the movement of asylum seekers from the U.K. to neighboring Ireland and Ireland’s proposal to send them back. The Irish premier has said that Ireland will not “provide a loophole for anybody else’s migration challenges.” Irish officials
Continue ReadingSANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Jose Mujica, the former president of Uruguay known for his bold socialist agenda, says he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. The 88-year-old Mujica says the tumor was discovered during a routine checkup last Friday. He says the diagnosis compounds his health problems as he also suffers from an autoimmune disease.
Continue ReadingBy DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Congressional negotiators have agreed to help the Federal Aviation Administration hire more air traffic controllers and safety inspectors. House and Senate leaders said Monday they have agreed on a $105 billion bill governing the Federal Aviation Administration for the next five years. They say the bill will increase the
Continue ReadingBy JON GAMBRELL Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — A suspected missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a ship in the Red Sea on Monday, authorities said, the latest assault in their campaign against international shipping in the crucial maritime route. The attack happened off the coast of Mokha, Yemen, the British military’s United Kingdom
Continue ReadingBy EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s interior ministry says five people have been killed in a bomb attack in the remote north of the country near the border with Somalia. Five other people were wounded. There is no immediate claim of responsibility, but Somalia-based al-Shabab militants affiliated with al-Qaida have carried
Continue ReadingBy Holmes Lybrand and Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — Hunter Biden is demanding that Fox News remove from its platforms sexually explicit images that President Joe Biden’s son says are private, according to a letter obtained by CNN, as part of his strategy to publicly fight back against conservative media. The letter sent by attorneys
Continue ReadingBy JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation. Georgia Power said Monday that Plant Vogtle’s Unit 4 is complete. The project has cost billions more and took years longer than projected. Unit 3 began commercial operations last summer. They’re the first two
Continue ReadingTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A University of Arizona student was fatally shot at an off-campus house party over the weekend, authorities said. Three other people — a teenage girl, a man and a woman — were treated at a hospital early Sunday for injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, Tucson police said in
Continue ReadingBy JILL LAWLESS Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO’s secretary general says the alliance’s member countries have failed to deliver in time what they promised to Ukraine. Jens Stoltenberg said during a visit to Kyiv that “serious delays in support have meant serious consequences on the battlefield.” Russia is hurrying to exploit its advantages
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