Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TOPEKA, Kan.) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed Senate Bill 63, which would have restricted gender-affirming care for transgender youth. “Right now, the legislature should be focused on ways to help Kansans cope with rising prices,” Kelly said in a statement emailed late Tuesday. […]
ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — A new atmospheric river is bearing down on California, including fire-ravaged Los Angeles, where residents are bracing for the possibility of mudslides and landslides. The storm moves into the Golden State on Wednesday, with the heaviest rain falling on Thursday and Friday. Some areas could see as much as 5 to 10 […]
Photo by Roberto Pfeil/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Semaglutide, a medication widely used for diabetes and weight loss, may offer another unexpected benefit — it could help people drink less alcohol. A study published in JAMA Psychiatry enrolled 48 adults between ages 21 and 65 who had been diagnosed with alcohol use disorder but […]
Courtesy of Prime Two episodes of Harlem premiered on Prime Video Thursday, bringing the third and final season to an end. Having been on the show since the start, Tyler Lepley thinks the trajectory of his character, Ian, has been great. “I feel like … each season … enlightened us with a different layer of […]
The Chicago Bulls attempted to win a basketball game on Tuesday. Their hopes of doing so, however, were dashed fairly quickly. They welcomed the Detroit Pistons into the United Center for a Central Division clash that proved to be a mismatch in mere minutes. Detroit scored the first three baskets of the game and it […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (LONDON and THE PENTAGON) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared at his first meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Wednesday to tell allies that the liberation of all Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory “is an unrealistic objective.” “The bloodshed must stop and this war must end,” Hegseth said, in one of the […]
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is gearing up for major changes to the Department of Education, which, among its other functions, oversees a $1.6 trillion portfolio of student loans — the third largest source of household debt in the U.S. Those loans belong to over 44 million Americans, many of whom are […]
ABC (NEW YORK) — New York City is known for its towering skyscrapers and bustling streets, but lurking beneath the glitz and glamour of the city that never sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their place as native New Yorkers. According to Orkin, the pest control service, New York has been ranked […]
Getty Images Gregory Rodrigues sets his sights high in the middleweight division. “Robocop” is nowhere to be seen in the UFC’s official middleweight rankings but draws Jared Cannonier (No. 7) at UFC Fight Night on Saturday. One-time title challenger Cannonier seeks to avoid his first losing streak this weekend. Hopefully, Cannonier can find the once-consistent […]
Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine called on Western partners to apply more pressure to Russia after an overnight ballistic missile and drone strike killed at least one person and set multiple fires in the capital Kyiv. “Apartment buildings, office buildings and civilian infrastructure were damaged,” Zelenskyy […]
