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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is suing Maine’s education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a f

LONDON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the U.K. equalities law defines a woman as someone born biologically female.

DALLAS (AP) — A shooting at a Dallas high school on Tuesday wounded four students and drew a heavy police response to the campus, where authorities said they had identified a suspect but had not made an arrest.

Multiple New York prison guards have been indicted in connection with the “disturbing” death of an inmate last month during a wildcat officers’ strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday.

DENVER (AP) — A former member of Gambia's military was convicted Tuesday of charges that included torturing people suspected of involvement in a failed coup against the West African country's longtime dictator nearly 20 years ago.

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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court on Tuesday convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced them to 5 1/2 years in prison each.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced former President Ollanta Humala and his wife , Nadine Heredia, to 15 years in prison for laundering funds received from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht to finance his 2006 and 2011 campai

PARIS (AP) — France is expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials as tensions between Paris and Algiers escalate, the French presidential palace said Tuesday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A second U.S.