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A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge
By Terry Spencer, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults. Senior Judge Robert Hinkle said the state went too far when it barred transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments with their ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial
By Randall Chase, Claudia Lauer, Michael Kunzelman And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Hunter Biden was convicted Tuesday of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a ... Read More »
1 responseJurors in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial have reached a verdict
By Randall Chase, Claudia Lauer, Michael Kunzelman And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Jurors in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial reached a verdict on Tuesday after three hours of deliberations over two days. President Joe Biden’s son is accused of lying when he swore he wasn’t a drug user in order to buy a gun in 2018. Hunter Biden is facing three felony charges ... Read More »
1 responsePamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband’s 1990 killing for the first time
By Kathy Mccormack, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart, 56, was a 22-year-old high ... Read More »
1 responsePamela Smart, serving life, accepts full responsibility for her husband’s death for the first time
By Kathy Mccormack, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsiblity for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart, 56, was a 22-year-old high ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts full responsibilty for husband’s death in videotaped statement
By Kathy Mccormack, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsiblity for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday as part of her latest sentence reduction request. Smart, 56, was a 22-year-old high ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!At least 49 die and 140 are missing in sinking of migrant boat off Yemen’s coast, UN agency says
By The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
CAIRO (AP) – A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 49 people and leaving another 140 missing, the U.N. group said Tuesday. The boat was carrying about 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 320-kilometer (200-mile) journey across the Gulf of Aden when it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jurors resume deliberations in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter
By Randall Chase, Claudia Lauer, Michael Kunzelman And Alanna Durkin Richer, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Jurors resumed deliberations Tuesday in the criminal case against Hunter Biden over a gun President Joe Biden’s son bought in 2018 when prosecutors say he was in the throes of a crack cocaine addiction. The jurors had deliberated for less than an hour on Monday afternoon before leaving the federal courthouse ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Malawi’s vice president and 9 others are confirmed dead after the wreckage of their plane is located
By Gregory Gondwe And Gerald Imray, The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) – Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima and nine other people died when the small military plane they were traveling in crashed in bad weather in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said Tuesday. Chilima was 51. President Lazarus Chakwera announced in a live address on state television ... Read More »
1 responseA migrant boat sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing, UN agency says
By The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
CAIRO (AP) – A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. The boat was carrying some 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 320-kilometer (200-mile) journey across the Gulf of Aden when ... Read More »
1 responseMigrant boat sinks off coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead, 140 missing, UN agency says
By The Associated Press on June 11th, 2024
CAIRO (AP) – A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. The boat was carrying some 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 320-kilometer (200-mile) journey across the Gulf of Aden when ... Read More »
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