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Federal judge blocks much of Indiana's ban on gender-affirming care for minors 06/16/2023 07:30pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ��� A federal judge issued an order Friday stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled July 1. The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican- Vietnam-era whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers, dies at 92 06/16/2023 06:57pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. He was 92. Ellsberg, Teens with severe obesity are turning to surgery and new weight loss drugs 06/16/2023 04:30pm • John Simon III was a hungry baby, a ���chunky��� toddler and a chubby little boy, his mother said. But by age 14, his weight had soared to 430 pounds and was a life-threatening medical condition. Nine months after weight-loss surgery that removed a portion of his stomach, John has lost about 150 pou Maine man charged with killing his parents and 2 others indicted, faces more charges 06/16/2023 03:47pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� A man charged with four counts of murder for allegedly killing his parents and two others in a series of shootings that shook Maine earlier this year has been indicted, officials said on Friday. Law enforcement officials say 34-year-old Joseph Eaton confessed to police to th Donald Triplett, the 1st person diagnosed with autism, dies at 89 06/16/2023 03:37pm • FOREST, Miss. (AP) ��� The Mississippi man known as ���Case 1,��� the first person to be diagnosed with autism, has died. Donald G. Triplett was the subject of a book titled ���In a Different Key,��� a PBS documentary film, BBC news magazine installment and countless medical journal articles. But to Teen says she was sexually assaulted by boys at Greg Norman's home after being served alcohol 06/16/2023 03:11pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) ��� LIV Golf leader Greg Norman and his wife are being sued by a high school girl who says she was sexually assaulted at their Florida home by two boys during a party where alcohol was served to her, her alleged attackers and other minors. The lawsuit alleges that Norman, How Trump and Johnson, divisive populists with many similarities, ended up on different paths 06/16/2023 01:24pm • At first blush, they seem so alike ��� two pugnacious, ideologically flexible politicians who latched onto the 2016 global explosion of populism to lead their respective countries before falling from power. But Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appear headed down different paths this week as they navig Nusrat Chowdhury confirmed as the first Muslim female federal judge in U.S. history 06/16/2023 01:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Nusrat Chowdhury, a civil rights lawyer, has been confirmed by the Senate as the first Muslim female federal judge in U.S. history. She will assume her lifetime appointment in Brooklyn federal court in New York after a 50-49 vote on Thursday along party lines. The confirmation dr What to stream this week: 'Extraction 2,' Stan Lee doc, 'Star Trek' and 'The Wonder Years' 06/16/2023 10:47am • Albums from John Mellencamp and Killer Mike, as well as the return of Chris Hemsworth's gun-for-hire anti-hero in Netflix's ���Extraction 2��� are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press��� Gregg Berhalter agrees to return as US national team coach, AP source says 06/16/2023 10:20am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Gregg Berhalter has agreed to return as U.S. national team coach, a surprising turn of events 5 1/2 months after his contract expired amid conflict with the Reyna family and an investigation of a three-decades-old domestic violence allegation. Berhalter agreed to coach the team thr Central Park birder Christian Cooper is turning his viral video fame into a memoir and TV show 06/16/2023 10:01am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� There's nothing that can keep Christian Cooper from enjoying his ���happy place,��� the bird-friendly Ramble of Central Park ��� not even his tense, viral video encounter three years ago with a woman walking her dog off leash in his refuge. Cooper is a lifelong birder, and Black, a Family separations at the US border inspired Isabel Allende's newest novel 06/16/2023 09:25am • MIAMI (AP) ��� The separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border has always caused Isabel Allende pain: When she saw it during the Trump administration, her first impulse was to help reunify children and parents through her foundation. Then, the legendary Chilean author thought, she had t Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador's crackdown on gangs 06/16/2023 08:15am • SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) ��� The smell of pineapple bread fills the kitchen of ���Vida Libre,��� or ���free life,��� a gang rehabilitation program founded in El Salvador by American pastor Kenton Moody in 2021. The trust that Moody puts in former gang members is not widely shared. Thousands o New Spider-Man film pulled from cinema programs in Arab world, possibly over transgender flag 06/16/2023 08:03am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� The new blockbuster movie ���Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse��� was abruptly removed from cinema listings in more than a dozen Muslim-majority countries without explanation, apparently over the inclusion of a blink-and-you-miss-it transgender poster in the ba A Russian ransomware gang breaches the Energy Department and other federal agencies 06/16/2023 06:15am • The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang's global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday. But for others am