A federal judge in Florida partially blocked the state from enforcing its recent ban on people under 18 receiving gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, allowing three transgender children to continue with their treatment while he hears a lawsuit challenging the law.

Indian authorities made fervent appeals to families on Tuesday to help identify 83 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after the death toll in the country’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades rose to 288.

Britain will on Wednesday propose tightening procurement laws to protect sensitive sectors on national security grounds by setting up a new unit to investigate suppliers and also creating new powers to ban suppliers from certain contracts.

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday formally launched his 2024 presidential campaign, joining a growing Republican field led by former President Donald Trump.

Thousands of people are being evacuated downstream of a major dam which has been blown up in Russian-held Ukraine.

A vast Soviet-era dam in the Russian controlled part of southern Ukraine was blown, unleashing a flood of water across the war zone, according to both Ukrainian and Russian forces.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised Ukrainian troops after his top ground commander said the country’s forces continued to move forward near the long-contested city of Bakhmut in northern Donetsk.

A growing number of contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination could clear the way for a Donald Trump victory while throwing up roadblocks for his main rival Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, party members and strategists said.

Republicans and Democrats are touting a hastily-written debt ceiling deal that staves off a devastating U.S. default, but does little to slow a massive buildup of total federal debt now on pace to exceed $50 trillion in a decade.

Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season, officials said.

Moscow said it had thwarted a major offensive against its forces in eastern Ukraine, but Ukrainian officials dismissed the report and both sides said Kyiv’s military had made small gains elsewhere along front lines.

Apple barged into Meta’s metaverse party, unveiling an augmented-reality headset called the Vision Pro, its riskiest and biggest bet since the introduction of the iPhone.