[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In the video announcing his presidential run, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, described his hometown as “legendarily tough and big and complicated.” Soon after, New Yorkers proved just how apt that was. As Mr. de […]
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Attorneys for Idaho prison officials argued Thursday that a transgender inmate who is suing for access to gender confirmation surgery is too mentally unstable to receive the irreversible medical procedure. Lawyer Brady Hall told a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Idaho has no policy barring gender confirmation surgery for
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Image copyright Reuters/BBC Image caption Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia survived the poisoning attempt The BBC has commissioned a two-part drama inspired by the 2018 Novichok poisonings in Salisbury. The currently untitled drama will tell the story of “how ordinary people reacted to a crisis on their doorstep, displaying extraordinary heroism”. Former Russian spy
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Image copyright Getty Images More than two-thirds of LGBT people in the UK have been sexually harassed at work, a survey suggests. Of 1,151 polled by the Trades Union Congress, 68% said they had experienced harassment, with 42% reporting they had received unwanted comments about their sex life from a colleague. More than a quarter
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There are around 1.2 million Australians with Chinese heritage but there has never been a Chinese-Australian MP in the lower house. When Australians go to the polls on 18 May in a federal election, history could well be made in the seat of Chisholm in Melbourne, where two Chinese-Australian candidates are running against each other.
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The Trump administration’s decision to restrict all U.S. technology sales to Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei for national security reasons doesn’t just up the ante in the China trade war. Interested in China? Add China as an interest to stay up to date on the latest China news, video, and analysis from ABC News. It’s also
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The Washington Nationals survived a dramatic ninth inning to secure their first series win in a month. Gerardo Parra hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the fifth and Sean Doolittle stopped the New York Mets’ late rally by striking out Keon Broxton with the bases loaded for the final out of the Nationals’ 7-6 win
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Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June. Boris Johnson has announced he will run for the Conservative Party leadership after the prime minister stands down. Radio 5 Live’s Tony Livesey broke the news of Boris’s announcement to
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President Donald Trump’s high-profile trade offensives have grabbed headlines and rattled financial markets around the world. He’s battling China over the industries of the future, strong-arming Canada and Mexico into reshaping North American trade and threatening to tax cars from Europe. But his trade warriors are fighting dozens of more obscure battles — over laminated
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