Author: Randall Barranco

The pope has been open to welcoming transgender women to the Vatican.

New scanning technology will significantly speed up the process.

For the second year in a row, fewer medical students are applying to residency programs in states with near-total abortion bans. A new data snapshot from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), released Thursday, shows that students in their senior year in a doctorate of medicine program have applied to fewer residency programs.

Republican-led states are asking a court to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new rule requiring coal and new gas plants to capture their planet-warming emissions. The 25 states, led by West Virginia and Indiana, filed a legal challenge to the rule. The filing itself does not lay out their arguments, but a press release…

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said he hopes President Biden was having a “senior moment” when he threatened to withhold weapons from Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proceeded with an invasion into Rafah in southern Gaza. Johnson, in a wide-ranging interview with Politico — which will air in full on a forthcoming episode of its…

Three progressive senators are asking why the Chamber of Commerce started a coalition earlier this year to oppose a White House rule that would allow it to use march-in rights to reduce drug costs. Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Jeff Merkley (Oreg.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders want to know the reason.

Cavan Sullivan has officially become a professional soccer player after much speculation and anticipation.

Bridget Ziegler is still opposing protections for LGBTQ+ people even though her romantic involvement with women received national attention.

Efforts to amend the post-coup Constitution so that a “more democratic” version can be written are picking up steam after the Cabinet decided late last month that three referendums will…

Torchbearers are carrying the Olympic flame through the streets of France’s southern port city of Marseille, the first leg of an 11-week journey across the country. The will be carried by about 10,000 bearers as it passes through more than 450 towns until the Games’ opening ceremony in Paris on July 26. Former soccer player Basile Boli, who played with the Marseille team in the 1990s, kicked off Thursday’s relay from the Notre Dame de la Garde basilica. One of the torchbearers is Ukrainian gymnast Mariia Vysochanska. It’s an expression of solidarity with Ukraine as well as a symbolic gesture marking Europe Day,