BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is the latest to join a growing list of states pushing to ban gender-affirming medical care to minors, as conservatives lawmakers across the country target transgender rights.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two white Louisiana sheriff's deputies who forced a Black woman facedown to the ground in 2020 as they investigated an allegation that she had been riding a motorcycle without a helmet asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit the woman filed against them.
HENRYETTA, Okla. (AP) — A woman whose daughter and three grandchildren were among seven bodies found on a rural Oklahoma property said Wednesday that sheriff's investigators told her that her sonin- law, a convicted sex offender, shot all six victims in the head before killing himself.
ATLANTA (AP) — Police said a man opened fire inside the waiting room of an Atlanta medical facility, killing one woman and injuring four others Wednesday as authorities swarmed the city's bustling midtown neighborhood in search of the 24-year-old suspect.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia claimed it foiled an attack by Ukrainian drones on the Kremlin early Wednesday, calling it an unsuccessful assassination attempt against President Vladimir Putin and promising retaliation for what it termed a 'terrorist' act. The Ukrainian president denied it, saying: 'We don't attack Putin or Moscow.'