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DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado’s largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite threats that providing the care could lead to losing federal funding. Children’s Hospital Colorado suspended medical treatments for transgender patients under 18 in January after it …
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti painted his conference’s 24-team College Football Playoff proposal as a way of making the regular season more meaningful — not less — and said he’s surprised he keeps having to explain that to a stout group of critics who favor a smaller expansion. “When …
PRAGUE, May 20 (Reuters) – A U.S. doctor is being transferred from Uganda to a hospital in Prague after coming into contact with a patient infected with Ebola, Czech health officials said. The doctor is showing no symptoms of the deadly virus and will be hospitalised as a precaution following a request from the United …
TOKYO, May 20 (Reuters) – A meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies last week may have lowered tensions but achieved no breakthrough, the UN’s Secretary-General said on Wednesday, raising the stakes for a visit by China’s Xi Jinping to Washington later this year. Xi and U.S. President Donald Trump did not …
MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) – Russia on Wednesday showed what it said was footage of troops delivering nuclear warheads to mobile Iskander-M launch systems, loading them and moving them undetected to launch sites as part of a major nuclear exercise. In a statement released to state media, the Defence Ministry said its forces had practised …
BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) – China will work with the U.S. on “reasonable” concerns regarding its rare earth export controls, the Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday, in a statement that defended its restrictions as legitimate and lawful. Introduced in April 2025 in retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs, Beijing’s controls …
BEIJING, May 20 (Reuters) – Two Japanese nationals and a Chinese national were injured in a knife attack “by a person with a mental disorder” at a restaurant in Shanghai on Tuesday, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. “The injured were promptly taken to hospital for treatment, and the suspect has been apprehended …
MALE, May 20 (Reuters) – The last two bodies of Italian divers killed in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives have been recovered, the media office of the Maldives president said on Wednesday, completing recovery efforts after the island nation’s deadliest diving tragedy. Five Italian divers died last week after entering a deepwater cave …
May 19 (Reuters) – New York City hotel operators and unions have reached an eight-year labour deal covering about 25,000 workers, averting a strike over wages, workloads and staffing levels that had threatened to disrupt the city ahead of the FIFA World Cup, the head of the Hotel Association of New York City said on …
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific region of southern Peru late Tuesday, injuring 27 people and damaging buildings, officials said. No deaths were reported. The U.S Geological Survey said the quake’s epicenter was 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) east-southeast of the town of Pampa de Tate, in the Ica region, at …