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Mexico frees 20 kids who worked 12 hour days selling snacks, trinkets at Playa del Carmen resort 07/13/2023 02:39pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) ��� Police in Mexico rescued 20 kids ranging in age from 1 to 17 from rented rooms in the resort town of Playa del Carmen, where they were forced to work 12 hours per day selling snacks and trinkets on the streets and beaches, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors in the Caribbean Things to know about the latest court rulings and statehouse action over transgender rights 07/13/2023 02:33pm • Five transgender children and their families sued Texas this week over a law that would bar transgender care for them and other minors, adding more uncertainty to the fate of policies to curtail the rights of transgender people. Most GOP-controlled states in the past few years have passed similar la Virginia's Youngkin surpasses previous governors' annual fundraising records in a single quarter 07/13/2023 02:16pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin���s main fundraising apparatus will soon report raising $5.75 million in this year's second quarter, a sum that surpasses what any previous governor of the state has raised over an entire year, according to the group's accounting. The Families and doctors sue Texas over its new ban on transgender care for minors 07/13/2023 02:02pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� A group of Texas families and doctors have filed a lawsuit in state court seeking to block the state's new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, arguing it violates parental rights and discriminates against transgender teens. At least 20 states have adopted laws to b Chicago's Shedd Aquarium welcomes its first rockhopper penguin chick in 8 years 07/13/2023 01:10pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� It���s bright and early at Chicago���s Shedd Aquarium and the penguin population���s newest member is ready for a wellness check. A fuzzy brown southern rockhopper chick is gently plopped onto a scale in an exam room and Shedd���s penguin team members are happy with the results. So Michigan woman seriously injured in roller coaster accident sues Ohio amusement park 07/13/2023 10:55am • SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) ��� A Michigan woman struck in the head by a metal bracket that fell off a roller coaster at an Ohio amusement park has sued the park and its parent company, alleging their negligence caused the accident that left her with traumatic brain injuries. The August 2021 accident occurr Lea Salonga heads the first all-Filipino cast of a Broadway show in 'Here Lies Love' 07/13/2023 10:23am • Lea Salonga is back on the stage where her Broadway journey first began. But she isn't playing someone Vietnamese or Chinese or Japanese at the Broadway Theatre. For the first time in her storied career, the Filipino musical legend is actually playing a Filipino. What's more, she is surrounded by a Russian lawmakers move to further restrict transgender rights in new legislation 07/13/2023 09:45am • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved a toughened version of a bill that outlaws gender transitioning procedures, with added clauses that annul marriages in which one person has ���changed gender��� and bar transgender people from becoming foster or adoptive parents. The b US applications for jobless benefits fall again as labor market continues to defy the Fed actions 07/13/2023 08:42am • The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits fell again last week as the labor market continues defy the Federal Reserve���s attempt to cool it through higher interest rates. U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 12,000 to 237,000 for the week ending July 8, from 249,000 previous wee Women's tennis tour program provides education, exposure for female coaches 07/13/2023 06:10am • CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) ��� On a hazy, 80-degree afternoon in April, Australian Open semifinalist Magda Linette practiced with Julia Grabher about 24 hours before each would win a second-round match on the green clay of the WTA���s Charleston Open. While one of Linette���s two coaches, Iain Hughes, of UN expert group calls for release of Cambodian-American human rights activist after investigation 07/13/2023 03:01am • PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) ��� A United Nations expert group is calling for the immediate release of a Cambodian-American human rights activist, saying an investigation it conducted has concluded she was being ���arbitrarily detained in violation of international law.��� The United Nations Working Gr Former teen performers accuse an agent of sexual assault. They're hoping it's Japan's #MeToo moment 07/13/2023 03:01am • TOKYO (AP) ��� Kazuya Nakamura says he was 15 when one of the most powerful men in Japanese entertainment history forced him to have sex while he was part of a troupe of backup dancers managed by the legendary talent agent. At least a dozen other men have come forward this year to say they were sexu Kids��� developmental disability diagnoses became more common during pandemic, but autism rates held steady, CDC report says 07/13/2023 12:01am • (CNN) — Children were more likely to be diagnosed with developmental disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic than they were in the year before, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates of intellectual disability and autism diagnoses held relativ Police say there's no sign of crime by BBC anchor who allegedly paid teen for sexual photos 07/12/2023 11:07pm • LONDON (AP) ��� There���s no evidence a BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager for sexually explicit photos committed a crime, London police said Wednesday as the broadcaster's wife publicly identified him for the first time as veteran news anchor Huw Edwards. Metropolitan police decided to tak Dentist accused of poisoning wife searched online for ways to get away with murder, police say 07/12/2023 08:58pm • CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) ��� Shortly after beginning an affair, a Colorado dentist accused of killing his wife searched online for answers to questions such as ���is arsenic detectable in an autopsy?��� and ���how to make murder look like a heart attack," police said. Days later, James Craig's wife, A