Aug 19 Utah judge reverses law banning transgender girls from sports By Brady McCombs, Sam Metz, Associated Press Transgender girls in Utah will be given the opportunity to participate in female sports as the school year begins after a judge reversed a ban pending legal challenges from parents. Continue reading
Aug 18 Biden’s climate change measure promises future land leases for oil companies By Matthew Brown, Michael Phillis, Associated Press The legislation mandates several oil and gas lease sales. It also locks renewables and fossil fuel together for 10 years. So if the Biden administration wants solar and wind, it must first offer new oil and gas leases. Continue reading
Aug 18 Florida Gov. DeSantis’ election police unit announces 20 voter fraud cases By Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced criminal charges against 20 people for illegally voting in 2020, the first major public move from the Republican's new election police unit. Continue reading
Aug 18 WATCH: U.S. to offer extra monkeypox vaccine doses for gay pride events By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press The government on Thursday announced the launch of program that sets aside a pool of 50,000 doses for different cities and states. At least a dozen U.S. pride events are scheduled over the next two months,. Continue reading
Aug 18 Brazil government removes environment chief in possible reprisal By Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press The action comes just days after the environmental chief granted an interview to television behemoth Globo about illegal gold mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory. Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch 4:44 News Wrap: Federal judge considers releasing redacted affidavit from Mar-a-Lago search In our news wrap Thursday, a federal judge in Florida says he's inclined to release the affidavit behind the search of former President Trump's estate with redactions, the UN calls for demilitarizing a nuclear plant in Ukraine, the death toll… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch 6:36 Trump Organization CFO pleads guilty to tax fraud as legal cases surround former president Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who had worked with the family for decades, pleaded guilty Thursday to 15 counts involving tax fraud. As part of a plea deal, he will be required to testify in the upcoming trial against the… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch 6:03 Vermont prepares to elect its first female representative to Congress By Lisa Desjardins, Ian Couzens With most of the nation’s primary elections behind us, a clearer picture of November’s midterm races are starting to take shape. Vermont is now poised to send a woman to Congress for the first time, the last state in the… Continue watching
Aug 18 Watch 6:30 Election deniers are winning primary races, raising the stakes for November’s midterms By Amna Nawaz Candidates who continue to falsely claim the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent are winning Republican primary races in critical battleground states. Their victories have raised the stakes for the November midterms with the possibility that some of them could be… Continue watching
Aug 18 Hundreds of Google workers demand abortion protections, data privacy By Associated Press Hundreds of Google employees are petitioning the company to extend its abortion health care benefits to contract workers and to strengthen privacy protections for Google users searching for abortion information online. Continue reading