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Transgender health: Comparing model bills to real proposals 05/23/2023 01:56pm • Many of this year's statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths, as introduced or enacted, are identical or very similar to some model legislation, or ready-made bills suggested to lawmakers by interest groups, an Associated Press analysis has found. The AP obtained the texts o Why do so many Black women die in pregnancy? One reason: Doctors don't take them seriously 05/23/2023 10:34am • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Angelica Lyons knew it was dangerous for Black women to give birth in America. As a public health instructor, she taught college students about racial health disparities, including the fact that Black women in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die during pregna Black kids face racism before they even start school. It's driving a major mental health crisis. 05/23/2023 12:23am • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� To her students who need the most support, India Strother is rarely just ���Ms. Strother��� ��� she���s a family figure they call ���Mom,��� a trusted guide as they negotiate their teenage years. They open up to her about their dating lives. About pregnancy scares. About thei China's Sinopec signs agreement to enter retail fuel market in crisis-hit Sri Lanka 05/22/2023 10:12pm • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� Chinese petroleum giant Sinopec signed an agreement with Sri Lanka on Monday to enter the South Asian island country's retail fuel market as it struggles to resolve a worsening energy crisis amid an unprecedented economic upheaval. The contract agreement would enable Sino Montana is banning TikTok. But can the state enforce the law and fend off lawsuits? 05/22/2023 07:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� TikTok is challenging Montana's first-of-its kind law that makes it illegal for people to use the social media app in the state. It's the second lawsuit since the ban was adopted. Montana Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the law Wednesday expecting a legal fight. The law, sche Montana governor signs law to define 'sex' as only male or female 05/22/2023 06:39pm • HELENA, Mont. (AP) ��� Republican Governor Greg Gianforte has signed a bill defining the word ���sex��� in state law as only male or female ��� joining Kansas and Tennessee, which have similar laws that LGBTQ+ advocates argue will deny legal recognition to nonbinary and transgender people. Medical p Spanish acknowledge they have a racism problem after more abuse of Vin��cius J��nior 05/22/2023 05:26pm • MADRID (AP) ��� One after another, the racial insults kept coming. The ���monkey��� chants outside one stadium, the offensive gestures during a game, the effigy hung off a highway bridge. One by one, Vin��cius J��nior showed them on a video on Instagram on Monday, making sure they were there for ev Flying Dog Brewery is being acquired, and flying out of Maryland 05/22/2023 04:01pm • Flying Dog Brewery CEO Jim Caruso. (Courtesy Flying Dog) Craft beer maker Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Maryland, known for its sometimes edgy beer names and labels, has agreed to be acquired by Utica, New York-based FX Matt, a 135-year-old family-owned brewer, for an undisclosed sum. The Amazon���s HQ2 office towers are open. They���re named Jasper and Merlin 05/22/2023 03:23pm • Amazon is finally graduating from rented space in Crystal City, Virginia, with the official opening Monday of its two Metropolitan Park office towers in Pentagon City. The opening comes nearly five years after the digital giant chose Northern Virginia for HQ2, and committed to creating 25,000 job Independent bookselling expanded again in 2022, with new and diverse stores opening nationwide 05/22/2023 09:03am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Near the end of 2021, Jessica Callahan was living in Columbus, Ohio, working as a social science researcher and wondering if there was a better way to support herself. Her friends Julie Ross and Austin Carter had similar thoughts and a similar solution: Open a bookstore. ���I th New Mexican Spanish, a unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers 05/22/2023 08:05am • HOLMAN, N.M. (AP) ��� On a spring Saturday afternoon, two ���hermanos��� knelt to pray in the chapel of their Catholic brotherhood of St. Isidore the Farmer, nestled by the pine forest outside this hamlet in a high mountain valley. Fidel Trujillo and Leo Paul Pacheco���s words resounded in New Me Alternatives to a 4-Year College: What to Know 05/21/2023 08:00pm • For many high school graduates, pursuing a four-year college degree remains the logical next step before starting a career. But there are plenty of alternatives, which may be a better path for some students. For some, the rising cost of college and the potential for racking up tens of thousands of d Back in hoodies and gym shorts, Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment 05/21/2023 03:33pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Before Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman checked himself in to the hospital for clinical depression in February, he walked the halls of the Senate stone-faced and dressed in formal suits. These days, he���s back to wearing the hoodies and gym shorts he was known for before he beca Takeaways from AP's report on secretive networks helping women circumvent Honduras' abortion ban 05/20/2023 02:53pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� In remote mountain villages, urban neighborhoods, along the Caribbean coast ��� despite Honduras��� national abortion ban and amid suffocating social and religious opposition, women are terminating pregnancies with the help of clandestine networks seeking to make the p Burner phones, aliases, code words: How secret networks help women circumvent Honduras' abortion ban 05/20/2023 11:53am • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of western Honduras��� coffee-growing mountains, a woman opened a tiny package of pills, delivered to a nearby town. She didn���t know it, but the medication had more than likely entered the country hidden in