Over the past year, there have been mounting criticisms of a study into the effects of puberty-blocking drugs when used to treat young people with gender dysphoria – including concerns raised by Newsnight. The study was carried out at the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at London’s Tavistock Clinic – England’s only NHS youth gender […]
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Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have become the first authors to jointly win the Booker Prize for Fiction. Atwood’s The Testaments and Evaristo’s novel Girl, Woman, Other earned each author an equal share of the £50,000 prize. Atwood, 79, is the oldest ever Booker winner, while Evaristo is the first black woman to win. The
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Protests have erupted in Barcelona after Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison. Thousands of demonstrators blocked road access to Barcelona’s El Prat airport. More than 100 flights were cancelled. Riot police charged protesters, who threw rocks, cans and fire extinguishers, AFP news agency reported. The
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Buffalo rookie forward Victor Olofsson set an NHL record by becoming the first player to score his first seven career goals on the power play, Carter Hutton made 25 saves to earn his first shutout of the season, and the Sabres continued their hot start with a 4-0 win over the Dallas Stars on Monday.
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President Trump said on Monday that he was halting trade negotiations with Turkey and doubling tariffs on imports of Turkish steel as he tried to rein in Turkey’s incursion into Syria, an invasion that he himself had cleared the way for a week ago. Mr. Trump said he was increasing steel tariffs on Turkey to
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Have you ever experienced ringing, buzzing, hissing or other noises that no one else around you seems to hear — and you wonder whether you’re making it up in your mind? The truth is, you’re probably not imagining things. But you might have tinnitus, which is when you hear noises or sensations in your ears
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K-pop singer and actress Sulli was found dead Monday. Kim Seong-tae, an official from the Seongnam Sujeong Police Department, told the Associated Press that the 25-year-old was discovered on the second floor of her home in Sujeong-gu, Seongnam, near South Korea’s capital, Seoul. Sulli’s manager told authorities the singer hadn’t responded to phone calls for
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The Yankees plan to use their bullpen against Houston from the start in Game 4 of the AL Championship Series. With the best-of-seven series tied 1-1, Luis Severino starts Game 3 on Tuesday against Gerrit Cole. Masahiro Tanaka started the opener and James Paxton was on the mound for Game 2. Manager Aaron Boone plans
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WASHINGTON — Some of President Trump’s most relentless defenders are expressing a sense of déjà vu over the impeachment inquiry currently underway. “ORCHESTRATED DEM CAMPAIGN LIKE KAVANAUGH,” Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, wrote on Twitter. “I’ve seen this movie before — with Brett #Kavanaugh,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. “Kavanaugh 2.0”
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The plutonium core for the first atomic weapon detonated in 1945 was taken from Los Alamos National Laboratory to a test site in the New Mexico desert in the backseat of a U.S. Army sedan. Officials put other bomb parts inside a metal container, packed it into a wooden crate and secured it in the
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