A Virginia school district is accused of hiding evidence and working with a political action committee to punish two boys who opposed a transgender student using their locker room.

Trump orders immediate resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing to match global programs, citing Russia and China's advancing capabilities in major policy shift.

For a team in need of a breath of fresh air, a hurricane blew into the Quest Diagnostics Giants Training Center on Wednesday ... on a scooter.

"I'm not here by choice," Ihim shared.

Summit on sidelines of Apec is the first between the leaders of US and China since 2019, and comes after tensions have been strained by Trump’s trade war

Here are some of the latest images coming in from Busan amid the countdown to Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping

On Monday the US and China agreed on a framework for a trade deal ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting.

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© Illustration: Victoria Hart/AFP/Getty Images

© Illustration: Victoria Hart/AFP/Getty Images

Richard Solomon, mayor of Black River, describes terror of 16ft storm surges and hours of fierce winds when storm hit, as focus now moves to aid and rescue efforts

• Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba after turning Jamaica into ‘disaster area’

The mayor of Black River – a town that Jamaica’s prime minister called “ground zero” for Hurricane Melissa – has described the monstrous storm surges and devastation the storm has wrought on its residents.

Speaking to the Guardian, Richard Solomon recounted the traumatic experience of riding out the Category 5 “storm of the century” at an emergency operating centre.

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© Photograph: Maria Alejandra Cardona/Reuters

© Photograph: Maria Alejandra Cardona/Reuters

Ohtani lasted into the seventh inning despite needing medical attention into the early morning that same day.

Labour MPs express dismay at chancellor’s error as Tories demand her sacking

Walerius' revelation comes after Page Six obtained photos of an unidentified man carrying an infant from the reality star's Denver home.

The cuckoo, which has been spotted only four times in the mainland US, is native to Europe and winters in Africa.

"I think that relationship changed a little, hasn't it?" Billy Bush asked Hines during their chat.

Each piece is better than the last! 

I believe — genuinely — that no fan really wants to tank.

Former PM says he has not seen party ‘soaring in the polls as a result of saying what rubbish net zero is’

Boris Johnson has warned the Conservatives they will not win the next election by “bashing the green agenda”.

The former prime minister said he had not seen the Conservatives “soaring in the polls as a result of saying what rubbish net zero is”.

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Not only is Blue Jays superstar first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. not overpaid, he is proving to be underrated.

The Blue Jays came out swinging early in a historic World Series Game 5 statement.

The immense gap between Tigers and Tarik Skubal, reported here first, is even bigger than first believed.

District Judge Sara Ellis had ordered top CBP official Greg Bovino to appear in person at Northern Illinois District court every weekday at 5:45 p.m. to provide a briefing on “Operation Midway Blitz.”

New York City was not a cauldron of anti-Islamic hate post-9/11, as cynically declared by mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani.

Suzanne Rees, 80, was found dead on Lizard Island a day after her cruise ship the Coral Adventurer left without her

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The family of an 80-year-old who was left behind by her cruise ship and died on a remote Queensland island has alleged there was a “failure of care and common sense”.

Suzanne Rees was on the second day of a luxury 60-day circumnavigation of Australia when she disembarked the Coral Adventurer at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef on Saturday morning. She and other passengers had intended to hike the island’s Cook’s Look mountain.

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© Photograph: Supplied by Rees family

© Photograph: Supplied by Rees family

The Twins have a new manager. 

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed victory Wednesday over what he called the "hoax" of climate change, after billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said a warming world would not end civilization. Read More

The stench is a Capitol offense.

Almeida theatre, London
Jack Holden has elegantly adapted Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker winner about class envy, gay culture and political scandal in 80s Britain

How to adapt a novel as big and shimmering as Alan Hollinghurst’s 2004 Booker prize winner? It’s a book that captures not just the hypocrisies of one elite, Thatcher-loving family but the hypocrisies of a whole era, with power and politics bristling beside the hedonistic explosion of 1980s gay culture.

Maybe it needs an entire series (as in the case of Andrew Davies’s TV adaptation), but Jack Holden, whose 2021 play Cruise traversed similar ground, makes a robust go of it here. He arrives at the dark heart of the book while filleting and mixing the order of things so that the timeline of the central three sections is shorter and slicker, but also less intensely lived.

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© Photograph: Johan Persson

© Photograph: Johan Persson