SALT LAKE CITY — When Utah Republicans passed a ban on gender-affirming health care for children and teens in 2023, they argued it was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm. Years later, the results of a study commissioned under the same law contradict that …
Read More »Savannah Chrisley shares her first moments with her dad after his release from prison
Savannah Chrisley shared early moments with her disgraced reality TV star father, Todd Chrisley, on Wednesday after he received a presidential pardon and was released from federal prison. The 27-year-old, clad in a pink Make America Great Again hat, took to Instagram to connect with her nearly 3 million followers …
Read More »The chaotic first days of a new food aid regime in Gaza backed by the U.S. and Israel
Scores of Palestinian men, women and children raced across a dusty expanse toward an aid warehouse in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. A few minutes later, a few emerged with bags and boxes of food. Those were the desperate scenes that marked the first turbulent week of a new U.S. …
Read More »United Airlines plans to return to JFK — again — in new partnership with JetBlue
United Airlines has a new friend in Queens. The airline is returning to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport again, this time through a partnership with JetBlue Airways. The partnership, called Blue Sky, will allow JetBlue customers to earn frequent-flyer miles on United and vice versa. It also includes …
Read More »Trump gives Putin two weeks. What’s next?
Moscow has done little to dispel that reputation of slow-balling the president in recent days. Putin is yet to deliver a memorandum for a peace agreement that he promised shortly after the two leaders spoke on the phone over a week ago. The Kremlin insists the document is in its …
Read More »Stocks and U.S. dollar rally as Trump tariffs hit court roadblock
SYDNEY — Asian shares and Wall Street futures jumped in Asia on Thursday after a U.S. federal court blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect, sending the dollar up on safe haven currencies. The little-known Manhattan-based Court of International Trade ruled that Trump overstepped his authority …
Read More »Israel authorizes more Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank
The top United Nations court ruled last year that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately. Israel denounced the non-binding opinion by a 15-judge panel of the International Court of Justice, saying the territories are …
Read More »Harvard agrees to relinquish early images of enslaved people, ending a long legal battle
BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified …
Read More »Trump commutes sentence of Chicago gang founder after lobbying by Ye
Many Americans may not know Larry Hoover Sr. beyond a passing reference to him in Rick Ross’ 2010 hit single “B.M.F (Blowin’ Money Fast),” in which Ross sings, “I think I’m Big Meech (Woo), Larry Hoover …” But on Wednesday, President Donald Trump commuted the six life sentences that Hoover, …
Read More »Trump admin’s effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil is likely unconstitutional, judge rules
A federal judge in New Jersey ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is most likely unconstitutional but stopped short of releasing him from detainment. In a lengthy order, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said Khalil was “likely to succeed” …
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