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Things to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids’ rights 04/17/2024 11:54am • Three court rulings across the U.S. this week delved into laws restricting the rights of transgender kids, including the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has gotten involved in a ban on gender-affirming care. Most Republican-controlled states have now banned gender-affirming health care such as pub From 'The Wiz' revival to Alicia Keys musical, DC native launches two Broadway shows in one week 04/17/2024 04:25am • Last fall, her nonprofit Canady Foundation for the Arts teamed with National Theatre's "Teens Behind the Scenes" program to bring hundreds of D.C. students to see the national tour of her revival of "The Wiz." "We brought about 300 D.C. youth to see the show," co-producer Marjuan Canady told A former youth detention center resident testifies about 'hit squad' attack 04/17/2024 03:00am • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A former resident of New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Tuesday that his house leader and another staffer restrained him in a stairwell while two other workers sexually assaulted him. The four members of what he and other teens called “the hit squad” t The push for school choice in Nebraska is pitting lawmakers against their constituents 04/16/2024 06:47pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are set for the first time to pass a bill that would block the public from voting on a ballot measure initiated by citizens of the state, setting up what could be a long battle over whether to fund private school tuition with public dollars. On Thursday, lawma West Virginia transgender sports ban discriminates against teen athlete, appeals court says 04/16/2024 05:53pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's transgender sports ban violates the rights of a teen athlete under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the law can Detective says daughter's boyfriend, disliked by Atlantic City mayor, recorded abuse in video call 04/16/2024 03:46pm • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small and his wife disapproved of their teenage daughter's boyfriend, who secretly recorded an incident of Small allegedly physically and verbally assaulting the girl over a video chat, prosecutors said in affidavit. Small and his wife LaQuetta, Federal appeals court finds West Virginia transgender sports ban discriminates against teen athlete (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that the ruling overturns the ban.) 04/16/2024 02:37pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Federal appeals court finds West Virginia transgender sports ban discriminates against teen athlete (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported that the ruling overturns the ban.). What Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse can tell us about the public domain and remix culture 04/16/2024 02:03pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The giant stuffed bear, its face a twisted smile, lumbers across the screen. Menacing music swells. Shadows mask unknown threats. Christopher Robin begs for his life. And is that a sledgehammer about to pulverize a minor character's head? Thus unfolds the trailer for the 2023 m Tensions rise in Australia after a bishop and priest are wounded in a knife attack in a church 04/16/2024 08:06am • SYDNEY (AP) — A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and a priest during a church service in the second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging against retaliation. The 16-year-o A knife attack in Australia against a bishop and a priest is being treated as terrorism, police say 04/16/2024 12:00am • SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person, and sparked a riot was an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Tuesday after the stabbing at Christ the Good Paris Hilton backs California bill to bring more transparency to youth treatment facilities 04/15/2024 10:06pm • SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Paris Hilton joined California state lawmakers Monday to push for legislation aimed at cracking down on the industry that cares for troubled teens by requiring more transparency from youth treatment facilities. The bill supported by the Hilton Hotel heiress and media pers Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth 04/15/2024 06:22pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The justices' order Monday allows the state to put in a place a 2023 law that subjects physicians to up to 10 years i 4 family members plead not guilty in abduction and abuse of a malnourished Iowa teen 04/15/2024 04:44pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four members of a rural Iowa family have pleaded not guilty in the abduction and abuse of an 18-year-old relative who had allegedly showed up at a hospital so badly beaten that his brain was bleeding and so malnourished that he weighed just 70 pounds (32 kilograms), accordi Ex-youth center worker testifies that top bosses would never take kids' word over staff 04/15/2024 04:17pm • BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A man who oversaw staff training and investigations at New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Monday that top-level administrators sided with staff against residents, while lower-level workers wanted to punish kids for speaking up. Virgil Bossom returned to the w 'Heartbreaking': DC neighbors devastated, fed up with gun violence after drive-by shooting death of 15-year-old girl 04/15/2024 03:50pm • A 15-year-old girl was killed Sunday night when D.C. police say suspects inside a vehicle fired shots at a group of people outside a Southeast apartment building. The drive-by shooting happened in the 2400 block of Elvans Road, Southeast, just before 11 p.m., according to police. "This neighbo