General

Responses to the variant XBB.1.5 were reduced 20x.

“Starting immediately, your institutions must take steps to preserve all records, written and electronic, regarding gender-related treatments performed on minors since the opening of the Center,” Hawley wrote in the letter. “Additional oversight inquiries and outreach will follow.”

The protest comes in response to the ban on neonicotinoid insecticides for sugar beets.

Russia is concerned by attempts to silently wind down the investigation into last year’s explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said.

The attorneys general for 21 states sent a letter to President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday to ask the administration to declare Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.

Clergy asking for "more inclusive language in our authorised liturgy."

The US Navy has recovered and is investigating the remains of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina.

The White House and the CIA have denied journalist Seymour Hersh's allegations that the US was involved in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, calling the report "complete fiction" and "completely and utterly false," while the UN said it was unable to verify the claims.

“The concern here is obviously less for the potential victim than for the perpetrator,” reads a letter from the university.

"Like the apocalypse."