A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities.
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South Africa launches case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
It’s asking asking the top U.N. court to order Israel to halt its attacks.
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Air in Times Square filled with colored paper as organizers test New Year’s Eve confetti
Visitors to Times Square got a small preview of New York City’s famed New Year’s Eve party.
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Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney
Cohen, who was disbarred five years ago, said to a judge that he found the citations by doing research through Google Bard and was unaware that the service could generate nonexistent cases.
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Abortion debate creates ‘new era’ for state supreme court races in 2024
The 2024 elections will be dominated by the presidential contest and the battle for control of Congress.
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Palestinians stream into a southern Gaza town, fleeing Israeli bombardment in the center
Israel’s widening campaign, which has already flattened much of the north, is now focused on the urban refugee camps of Bureij, Nuseirat and Maghazi in central Gaza
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Russia launches the biggest aerial barrage of the war, killing 30 civilians
Western officials and analysts recently warned that Russia had limited its cruise missile strikes in recent months in an apparent effort to build up stockpiles for massive strikes during the winter.
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Trump is blocked from the Republican primary ballot in 2 states. Can he still run for president?
Maine secretary of state’s decision to bar Donald Trump from the ballot forces the U.S. Supreme Court’s hand to settle the issue of his eligibility.
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Gaston Glock, creator of handgun that flooded the world, dies at 94
The Glock handgun, designed in the early 1980s, has been embraced by police and military but decried by gun-control advocates.
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Venezuela to hold military exercises off its coast as British warship heads to Guyana amid border dispute
President Nicolás Maduro has ordered Venezuela’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the U.K. announced it would send a warship to Guyana’s territorial waters.