Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed an executive order on Tuesday amending the definitions of the words “male” and “female”, along with other related words, in the state’s administrative rules and decisions. LGBTQ+ individuals and organizations condemned the move as a targeted attack on transgender people’s rights within the state. Specifically, the order defines “male” as [...]

A Gallup public opinion poll released Wednesday shows continued record low approval ratings for the Supreme Court of the United States. Gallup, an independent global analytics firm, releases frequent public opinion polls gauging Americans’ approval of the court and its justices. Tied with the record low from September 2022, only 40 percent of Americans approve [...]

The Kenyan government halted all Worldcoin-related activities on Wednesday while it conducted a thorough inquiry into the project’s legality and data protection practices. Founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Worldcoin is an identity cryptosystem that aims to provide everyone with access to the global economy. Individuals who wish to use Worldcoin must first obtain a WorldID [...]

Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC) released the provisional results of the county’s general elections on Tuesday, which recorded over 440,000 spoiled ballots. The Cambodian People’s Party declared a landslide victory last week, winning 120 of the 125 seats of the National Assembly. The party FUNCINPEC won the remaining five seats. Of the other 16 contesting [...]

Four UK teaching unions, the National Education Union (NEU), the NASUWT teacher’s union, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), and the Association of School and College Leaders accepted the government’s recent pay rise offer on Monday. The 6.5% increase in pay for UK teachers will bring planned industrial action in autumn to an end. [...]

US federal prosecutors indicted former President Donald Trump on four criminal charges Tuesday in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s federal investigation into interference with the 2020 presidential election. Trump faces four obstruction charges for his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election results. The 45-page indictment accuses the former president of “pursu unlawful means of [...]

People living in parts of the northern Indian state of Haryana remained under a government-imposed curfew with suspended mobile internet services on Tuesday because of ongoing violence between members of the local Hindu and Muslim communities. Fights broke out between two groups in Nuh, close to Gurugram, killing five and injuring at least 70 others, [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit Monday attempting to block the Oklahoma from opening the US’s first religious charter school. The proposed charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, would be run by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. The suit, filed by the ACLU on behalf of several Oklahoma residents, [...]

The US announced on Monday it sanctioned four officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina for actions it says undermines the Dayton Peace Agreement. This comes after the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) passed a law saying decisions from Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional court were null in the Republika Srpska, one of the two states that makes [...]

A US federal judge ruled on Monday that Idaho cannot enforce a ban on out-of-state abortion referrals, saying that such a prohibition would violate doctors’ First Amendment right to free speech. The block on enforcement will remain in effect while a lawsuit challenging a March letter from Idaho’s Attorney General Raúl Labrador continues. Labrador’s letter [...]