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Florida families are anxiously awaiting the outcome of a legal challenge to Florida state law.The trial will decide whether or not Florida’s ban on treatment for transgender minors will take effect.The ban is one of a host of laws signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis targeting the LGBTQ+ population. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app The mother of a transgender girl sobbed in federal court Wednesday as she contemplated having to move away from her Navy officer husband to get health care…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A decades-long decline in smoking in England has slowed significantly since the pandemic, according to a new study that casts doubt on Rishi Sunak’s ambition to make the country “smokefree” by 2030.The annual decline in smoking slowed to 0.3 per cent between April 2020 and August 2022, down from 5.2 per cent between June 2017 and February 2020, according to the peer reviewed study funded by charity Cancer Research UK.Researchers at University College London, who surveyed 101,690 adults for the study, estimated…
© Reuters. A street food vendor counts money in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 12, 2023. REUTERS/Tomas Cuesta/File Photo BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s December inflation rate will “clearly be substantially higher than in November,” Economy Minister Luis Caputo said in a televised interview Wednesday, as Javier Milei’s newly elected government grapples with an economy in crisis. Monthly inflation in the Latin American nation hit 12.8% in November alone, the highest monthly figure this year, according to statistics agency data released earlier Wednesday. On Tuesday, Caputo announced a slate of economic measures which include a more than 50% devaluation of the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo for Occidental Petroleum is displayed on a screen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:) acquired nearly 10.5 million shares of Occidental Petroleum (NYSE:) so far this week for about $588.7 million, according to a filing at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday.
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Oil pump jacks are seen at the Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas deposit in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina, January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in early Asian trade on Thursday, extending gains from the previous session following a bigger-than-expected weekly withdrawal from storage and signaling from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it would start lowering borrowing costs in 2024. Lower interest rates cut consumer borrowing costs, which can boost economic growth and demand for oil. The news also sent the dollar falling, which makes oil…
Michael Vi/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Gil West has left his position as General Motors (NYSE:GM) autonomous vehicles division Cruise’s COO. The development was reported by Bloomberg. Cruise has been plagued by safety and regulatory issues since one of its self-driving cars hit a woman in California in October.
President Biden on Wednesday said the southern border needs to be addressed as record numbers of migrants continue to overwhelm authorities while criticizing House Republicans over their impeachment inquiry into the business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden. In a statement released by the White House, Biden responded to the Republican-led House formally approving the impeachment inquiry. “The American people need their leaders in Congress to take action on important priorities for the nation and world,” the president said, before saying Congress should do more on a host of issues, including on Ukraine, Israel, the border, and the economy. On the border…
A man charged in the shooting death of a 2-year-old is facing more charges.Prosecutors accused the man of trying to destroy evidence of what happened inside his car.The man drove the car away and lit it on fire, prosecutors allege. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app A man already facing charges after a 2-year-old boy was shot and killed with his gun is now accused of trying to destroy evidence.Federal prosecutors in Michigan say the man left his loaded pistol in his…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Jürgen Maier, former chief executive of Siemens UK, has taken up a role chairing a new expert review of UK rail and transport infrastructure for the Labour party. The review, set up by shadow transport secretary Louise Haigh, will explore how transport network delivery can be better managed to boost jobs, improve value for money and drive investment and economic growth. The move comes after months of turbulence in the British rail industry after Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government scrapped the northern leg of its…
© Reuters. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow, Russia December 7, 2023. Sputnik/Sergei Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS (Reuters) – Russia is watching as U.S. military support for Ukraine declines and Kyiv suffers setbacks on the battlefield, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in interviews made public on Wednesday. Peskov was speaking to Russian media after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy completed talks in Washington to secure more than $60 billion in new military assistance, held up by disputes in Congress. “The Kyiv regime promised them that if you give us…