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BOSTON — A U.S. judge has temporarily blocked federal prison officials from transferring a transgender woman to a men’s facility and denying her access to gender-affirming care in accordance with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, her lawyers said on Thursday. The temporary restraining order was issued by …

An order sidelining almost 60 senior career leaders at the U.S. Agency for International Development was temporarily rescinded Thursday by one of the few remaining senior career civil servants with the authority to do so, two current and two former USAID employees told NBC News. Hours later, the same career …

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Dwyane Wade is recalling how a routine checkup turned into a life-changing cancer diagnosis that forced him to confront his own mortality and ultimately led to the removal of 40% of his kidney. The 43-year-old basketball player opened up about his health ordeal on the Jan. 30 episode of his podcast, …

“When you lose coaches like this, you lose the future of the sport, as well,” Zeghibe told reporters. Another well-known Russian figure skater, Inna Volyanskaya, was also among the dead, her former husband, Ross Lansel, told NBC Washington. Before becoming a skating coach in 2002 in Virginia, she wowed audiences …

Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker on Thursday denied allegations by six women that he engaged in inappropriate behavior during massage therapy sessions. Six women identified only by initials spoke to The Baltimore Banner about their allegations, which span Tucker’s rookie season in 2012 through 2016. Five of them allege that …

U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won consecutive Olympic gold medals on the ice before he became the voice of the sport on television, died Thursday, U.S. Figure Skating said. He was 95. The Associated Press first reported Button’s death, citing his son, Edward, who did not reveal a …

The military helicopter that collided with a regional jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in a crash that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft was a UH-60 Black Hawk, considered the “workhorse” of Army aviation. The helicopter is a “utility tactical transport” aircraft — used for everything from …

“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofía Gascón issued an apology Thursday after online users resurfaced her past posts on social media in which she appears to comment on Muslims, George Floyd and diversity at the Oscars. “I want to acknowledge the conversation around my past social media posts that have caused hurt,” …

A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to 10 years this week for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash. Emily Hernandez was seen holding the broken nameplate of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the mob of …