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The North Star State has officially banned book bans.

Hochul says the rate has reached historic lows.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul said in a press release that beginning in 2025, New York employees will receive 20 hours of paid prenatal care leave, allowing employees to attend appointments without dipping into their already existent 12 weeks of paid family leave. Category : News, Health & Wellness, Pregnancy

The microstate is the last German-speaking country to introduce marriage equality.

Official measurements have found that Paris is rapidly becoming a city of cyclists.

WASHINGTON, April 11 (Reuters) - A rule requiring gun dealers to obtain federal licenses and conduct background checks regardless of where they sell guns has been finalized and will soon go into effect, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday.

Obioma Chukwuike went to an all-girls boarding school in Nigeria, but was not sure if she was a girl or a boy. “Everybody seemed so worried about my body all the time. People kept asking me if I was a girl or a boy and I would answer: ‘I don’t know. I am just me’.”

Climate scientist Michael Mann was awarded more than $1 million in a defamation lawsuit against two conservative bloggers.

The American Psychological Association, representing 157,000 members, has issued a resolution calling for an end to trans care bans and misinformation around care.

Nation News: Following the release of the latest consumer expenditure survey by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), NITI Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam issued the statement.

Countries will have two years to put the updated directive, which covers crimes 'comparable to ecocide', into national law.

The Columbia River Basin, an area roughly the size of Texas, was once the world’s greatest salmon-producing river system.

The proposed rules will criminalize the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, including deepfakes made by AI tools, which could help deter revenge porn.

The artifacts include an elephant tail whisk, an ornamental chair made of wood, leather and iron, two gold stool ornaments, a gold necklace and two bracelets.

The $246 million bill would permanently increase state education funding and provide new support to charter schools, among other things.

Shutdowns of U.S. coal-fired power plants have outpaced expectations, as the energy sector slowly cleans up its act.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: California is announcing six new Homekey projects, creating 369 affordable homes to serve individuals experiencing homelessness in communities throughout the state…

Adults are often confused about the reasons young people are drinking less.

The latest findings from the 2022 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in December 2023, reveal remarkable reductions in poverty. The official headcount rate for moderate poverty (the proportion of people living below the upper poverty line) decreased by 23.0 per...

Tanzania's adult literacy rate has risen to 83% from 78.1% over the past decade, reflecting the success of governmental education initiatives aimed at improving literacy across the nation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom follows up on his 2021 vision to permanently end fracking in California in pursuit of California’s target of 100% clean energy by 2045.

An LGBTQ rights activist in Poland says he believes it’s a “new beginning” in Poland after a host on state television apologized on air for the homophobic propaganda aired by state media for years.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The number of American teens who smoke or have even tried smoking has dropped dramatically compared to a generation

Zambia passes landmark legislation setting the marriageable age at 18, without exception, in a major shift in the nation’s commitment to ending child marriage.