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Experts are urging caution in the use of life-changing medical treatment for children and adolescents In 2013, the number of children treated annually at the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital gender clinic at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland was 16. In 2021, the number was 724 – a rise of about 4500 percent. This is far from unusual. Across the United States and Europe, the number of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria is exploding. No one really knows why. But many specialised gender clinics are offering them life-changing medical treatment – puberty blockers, sex change hormones, and even “gender...

On Wednesday, former Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake took her election integrity lawsuit to the highest court in the state. After having her case rejected by both the superior and appellate courts over lack of evidence, Lake has appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court in an effort to overturn the results of the 2022 gubernatorial election.

A federal judge tossed charges against a New York man accused in the Capitol riot — the first out of hundreds of cases to fall apart due to lack of evidence.Prosecutors wrote to the Washington, DC, judge on Tuesday asking to drop charges against Christopher Kelly, a New York City resident who was captured in a viral photo near the US Capitol, shirtless and holding an American flag, according to court documents.Kelly was busted in January after the FBI said it obtained information from a paid informant that showed he had taken a photo from inside the Capitol building during...

Missouri state prosecutors have dropped their criminal case against the Republican governor. Gov. Eric Greitens had been accused of invasion of privacy for taking a nude picture of the woman with whom he’d been having an affair. According to ABC News, prosecutors still want charges brought against the governor, but want a special prosecutor to bring them later. Prosecutors have acknowledged not having the supposed picture.

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. - A Pasadena man found naked and bloody on a roof near an apartment where his girlfriend was found stabbed to death was arrested, authorities said Sunday. George Wood Pigman IV, 23, was booked for investigation of murder and was being held on $1 million bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. The body of Eimi Yamada, a 21-year-old student from Japan studying in the United States, was found early Saturday morning in an apartment in an unincorporated area near San Gabriel, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies said. The deputies found Pigman on the roof of...