A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. A coalition of states and D.C. immediately sued Kennedy over the declaration, calling it an overreach of Kennedy’s authority. The regulation of medicine is largely left up to states, and any federal rules need to go through public notice and comment periods.

It's taken a long legal battle, but Squamish Nation members will soon be returning to a reserve forcibly seized in 1913 In 1913, a barge arrived at Sen̓áḵw Indian Reserve No. 6. Residents were ordered aboard by Indian agents, towed out to sea and set adrift to watch while their village was burned to the ground. Now, the village has returned. Three shiny towers, the first of 11 planned buildings that will provide 6,000 rental units on Squamish territory at the south end of the Burrard Bridge, are nearing completion. Rising straight from the ground, their exuberant Coast Salish design is a contrast with the bridge’s concrete, squared-off art deco esthetic.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent broached waiving sanctions on oil already at sea, which would be a stunning reversal of longstanding American policy.

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

The U.S. government has been trying to crack down on illegal shipments of top-tier Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to China.

The FCC approved the deal less than a day after eight state attorneys general sued to block it. The combined entity would become the nation’s largest operator of local TV stations.

A Portland lawmaker on Thursday told a commercial real estate broker who recently made a series of offensive and incendiary remarks aimed at members of the City Council to “shut your racist mouth” and “f--- yourself in the heart.” Councilor Steve Novick fired off the responses after Brian Owendoff emailed Mayor Keith Wilson and all 12 members of the City Council about a recent study on housing policies in Austin, Texas, on Thursday morning. “Mr. Owendoff — Shut your racist mouth and stop cluttering up our emails,” Novick wrote in a reply-all response from his government account about an hour later, according to a copy of the exchange obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The artist, born Joseph Foreman, used his home surveillance footage of the raid to produce music videos that showed their face and likeness.

Chaofeng Ge was found dead in ICE custody last year, hanging in a shower stall with his hands and feet bound behind his back. His family wants answers.

Trump jokingly referred to the initial strikes on Iran to the attack on Pearl Harbor while seated next to Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

A cyberattack has shut down a nationwide breathalyzer test system found in vehicles of OUI offenders, impacting drivers in Maine.

Last year, as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel monolog, a civil servant overseeing West Coast stations privately pledged support, according to emails obtained by WIRED.

Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.

In a first in Canada, a judge has granted an interlocutory injunction to ban two Quebec men from donating their sperm. The two serial donors — Philippe Normand and his son, Dominik Seelos — have fathered hundreds of children, which came to light in a documentary by Noovo Info. On Wednesday, Justice Simon Chamberland granted the injunction, which remains in effect until a judgment is rendered in the trial related to the case, Noovo Info reported. Laurie, a mother whose four children were conceived through sperm donated from the two men, has accused them of “fertility fraud” and of violating their dignity “both on contractual grounds and on fundamental rights.”

Admission came during questioning at Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearing

Some cities are opting out of camera networks like Flock’s, concerned about abuse by police and immigration authorities. Organizers hope Dane County is the “next big domino” to fall.

A Washington, D.C., lobbying firm (led by convicted felons Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl) says it is seeking a presidential pardon for Canadian crypto fugitive Andean Medjedovic, documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice show.

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say

In North America’s Great Lakes region, river otters are coming back from the brink thanks to decades of effort on both sides of the border.

A critical fertiliser shortage threatens global food security amid Iran war. (...) Nearly half of the world’s traded urea – the most widely used fertiliser – and large volumes of other fertilisers are exported from Gulf countries via the Strait of Hormuz, making global agriculture highly exposed to any disruption there. Recent disruptions to gas supplies and shipping have already forced fertiliser plants, which use natural gas to manufacture fertiliser, in the Gulf and beyond to shut or cut their output. After its LNG facilities were attacked, Qatar’s state-run energy firm, QatarEnergy, halted output at what is the world’s largest urea plant after it shut down gas output. Since LNG output from Qatar has dropped off, India has cut output from three of its own urea plants. Bangladesh has also shut four out of its five fertiliser factories.