The proposed digital currency in Texas would be unique as it would be based on a physical asset, gold, and each unit of the digital currency issued would represent a particular fraction of a troy ounce of gold held in trust.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the age in which a child may undergo gender operations is up to the "child and their parents to decide."
50 witnesses told the Panel on Human Rights Violations in Counter-Insurgency Operations in North-East Nigeria that the Nigerian military took part in human rights violations in their counter-attacks against the Boko Haram group.
A Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, was arrested in Yekaterinburg, Russia for seeking classified information on Russian "state secret[s]" from a government official, allegedly on behalf of the US government, which Russia claims had nothing to do with journalism.
The Danish Energy Agency has successfully salvaged an object near the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was identified as an empty maritime smoke buoy used for visual marking and does not pose a safety risk.
Minnesota lawmakers on Thursday advanced legislation that would establish the state as a "trans refuge" for children who are seeking transgender medical procedures but who may be denied "gender-affirming care" in other states.
TikTok is still storing Americans’ data on overseas servers, potentially placing it at risk of being accessed and exploited by China’s communist regime.
A chemical fire from an explosion at the INEOS Phenol Cumene plant in Pasadena has been extinguished by firefighters, and the cause of the explosion is unknown.
The Department of Defense is funding and collaborating with for-profit media-rating companies NewsGuard and PeakMetrics to develop AI censorship technology, raising concerns about government intrusion and censorship of private speech.
