Proposal could lead to sanctions against Alaska medical professionals for gender-affirming care

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care for children could risk disciplinary action under a proposal set for review by the state medical board on Friday. The proposal would deem any professional who
Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 200 decaying bodies set to be sentenced for corpse abuse

DENVER (AP) — It’s been two years since nearly 200 decaying bodies were discovered throughout a fetid, room temperature building in rural Colorado. On Friday, the man responsible, a funeral home owner, is set to be sentenced
Trump embraces tough-on-crime mantra amid DC takeover as he and Democrats claim political wins

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump stood among several hundred law enforcement officers, National Guard troops and federal agents at a U.S. Park Police operations center in one of Washington, D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods. As the
Federal data website outage raises concerns among advocates

A federal website that informs the public about what information agencies are collecting and allows for public comment went down last weekend, and it has only been partially restored. The outage has raised concerns among advocates who
Inside the facility where ICE is training recruits to take on Trump’s deportation goals

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — At an obstacle course in the humid Georgia heat, an instructor shows recruits how to pull a wounded partner out of danger. In a classroom with desks cluttered with thick legal books about
Erik Menendez was denied parole. Here’s what he said at his hearing

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik Menendez was denied parole by panel of California commissioners Thursday. During his hearing he offered his most detailed account in years of how he was raised and why he made the choices
What to know about the Menendez brothers’ parole hearings

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Erik Menendez was denied parole Thursday. His brother will be next to plead his case before a parole board, on Friday. Their separate hearings this week come nearly 30 years the brothers were
Florida must stop expanding ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration center, judge says

MIAMI (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion of an immigration detention center built in the middle of the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental
South Korea’s Lee must navigate the ‘Trump risk’ at key summits in Japan and US

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung faces a pivotal foreign policy test barely two months after taking office, with back-to-back summits in Tokyo and Washington that reflect the wider struggle of U.S.
UN envoy warns of renewed violence in Syria a month into a fragile ceasefire

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria’s transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment in the southern city of Sweida, which saw deadly clashes last month, the top U.N. envoy for Syria warned on