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Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver's licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people's gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is “dehumanizing.” The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas Constitution. The men also are challenging the law's tough, new enforcement provisions for the state's 3-year-old policy of barring transgender people from using

2 trans men sue Kansas over a law invalidating their driver's licenses and about 1,700 others

Emergence of Epstein island photo leads to new calls for Lutnick to testify

Trump claimed Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the US. Sources say that’s not backed up by US intelligence.

Trump raises the possibility of a ‘friendly takeover of Cuba’ coming out of talks with Havana

President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. is in talks with Havana and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover of Cuba” without offering any details on what he meant. Speaking to reporters outside the White House as he left for a trip to Texas, Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in discussions with Cuban leaders “at a very high level.” “The Cuban government is talking with us,” the president said. “They have no money. They have no anything right now. But they’re talking to us, and maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cu

Partial government shutdown starts to hit TSA workers’ paychecks

South Africa starts mass cattle vaccination program to halt foot-and-mouth outbreak

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Attorney general announces indictment against 30 more people who protested at a Minnesota church

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi said on social media that 25 people were in custody and more arrests would follow. The new indictment comes a month after independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort and prominent local activist Nekima Levy Armstrong were charged for their alleged roles in the protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. “YOU

Biden flies commercial from Reagan National Airport and winds up stuck in delays like everyone else

Cars piled up in multiple-vehicle crash on Long Island Expressway in Long Island City; 4 people hurt

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What does the Paramount-WBD merger mean for CNN?

Viewers and readers of CNN might be wondering the same thing that CNN employees are asking right now: What will Paramount’s ownership mean?Answers are in short supply. Paramount executives have privately talked about the prospect of combining its CBS News unit with CNN. They have also praised CNN’s newsgathering machine and global reach.But CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Paramount CEO David Ellison will uphold the news network’s editorial independence amid severe political turbulence.President Donald Trump, after all, has long sought to weaken CNN, and he v

Wholesale inflation was hotter than expected in January as tariffs threaten to push up prices for consumers

The prices businesses pay to each other took a sharp turn higher in January, new data showed Friday, indicating that more tariff-related price increases could be still to come.The Producer Price Index rose 0.5% last month, a pickup from December’s 0.4% rate, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The annual rate of inflation nudged down to 2.9% from 3%.Economists were expecting wholesale inflation to increase by 0.3%, which would have resulted in a 2.6% annual rate.US stocks moved sharply lower Friday morning, with investors fearing the hotter-than-expected inflati

Columbia says ICE agents used false pretenses to enter a university residence and detain a student. Here’s what we know

Georgia school shooter’s father takes the stand and says he never saw any red flags

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US Olympic hockey player distances himself from White House video trashing Canadians

While the Trump administration has shown no hesitation to bash Canada – especially after the US men’s Olympic hockey team won gold in overtime – one of the players took issue with a recent AI-generated TikTok posted by the White House that made it sound like he was trash-talking Canadians.“They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple-syrup-eating-f**ks a lesson,” Team USA’s Brady Tkachuk appears to say in the video posted on the White House TikTok earlier this week. A disclaimer at the bottom of the video notes that it “contains AI-generated media,�

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Trump's State of the Union address seen by 32.6 million people, down 4 million from 2025 speech

An estimated 32.6 million people watched President Donald Trump's State of the Union address this week, down four million from his speech to Congress last year and the smallest audience he's ever gotten for the annual message. The Nielsen company said that his speech — the longest televised State of the Union address by any president, was seen on 15 different television networks. Trump never dipped below 37.1 million for his four addresses in his first term. He exceeded 40 million viewers from 2017 through 2019, with a peak of 47.7 million for his f

Singer d4vd named as ‘target’ in death and dismemberment of teen girl

Housecleaner says she bought drugs Kouri Richins allegedly used to kill spouse: ‘Please tell me these pills were not for him’

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US ambassador to Israel Urges Embassy Staff to Leave ‘Today’ as tensions with Iran increase

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told embassy staff in an email on Friday that if they want to leave the country amid the possibility of a strike on Iran they “should do so TODAY,” according to a source familiar with the message.Huckabee told embassy staff there was “no reason to panic” and said the decision came out of “an abundance of caution.” He noted the likely high demand for flights out of Israel on Friday and urged staff to buy tickets to any destination from which they could subsequently fly to Washington.Earlier Friday, the embassy authorized non-essential personnel

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Bill Clinton says he 'did nothing wrong' with Epstein as he faces grilling over their relationship

Former President Bill Clinton told members of Congress on Friday that he “did nothing wrong” in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and saw no signs of Epstein's sexual abuse as he faced hours of grilling from lawmakers over his connections to the disgraced financier from more than two decades ago. “I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” the former Democratic president said in an opening statement he shared on social media at the outset of the deposition. The closed-door deposition in Chappaqua, New York, marks the first time a former president has been

Trump says he is 'not happy' with the Iran nuclear talks but indicates he'll give them more time

Unearthing the forgotten diamonds: The untold story of the Owls Club

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Key questions surround the death of a nearly blind refugee after he was dropped off at a coffee shop alone

The death of a Rohingya refugee in Buffalo, New York, has raised pressing questions about how federal immigration agents handled his release from their custody – and what happened in the five days he was missing before his body was found.Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, who spoke little English and was nearly blind, was released from the Erie County Holding Center on February 19. Border Patrol agents briefly took custody of him on an immigration detainer before determining he shouldn’t be deported and, later that night, dropped him at a closed coffee house alone in near freezing temperatures. His