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A civil rights group warned Uber Eats that its app profiles place transgender drivers at risk of harassment and violence, prompting the company to apologize Tuesday to a Kansas man and to resolve issues within the app that outed him.

Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday struck down a bill prohibiting transgender athletes from competing on girls sports teams in Louisiana schools, pushing back against legislation that has passed several Southern states.

The data over the last week or so has been encouraging, especially looking at the number of people who are dying that is staying very, very low, he said.

Last month figures from Britain's Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed there had been 7,423 deaths directly caused by misuse of alcohol in 2020

The domestic worker was stamped on, strangled, choked, battered with brooms and burnt with an iron, according to court documents.

Two Roman Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in British Columbia have burned to the ground in overnight fires, Canadas national police force said Monday.

A bison has injured a hiker in Yellowstone National Park.

There are more than 1,100 registered Yoga teachers in Israel and Yoga centres can be found in almost every major township of the country.

An oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that contaminated the environment in a series of events that forced schools to close and sickened dozens of residents announced Monday that it would remain shuttered indefinitely.

Mexicos president vowed to investigate the border shootings that left 19 dead over the weekend, even as the latest homicide figures showed a rebound in killings nationwide.

The escalation in fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban militants have dealt fresh blows to the US-brokered peace negotiations between Kabul and the insurgents.

An explosion rocked a munitions factory central Serbia on Saturday in the second such incident this month, injuring at least three workers, staterun Serbian television reported.

Xinjiang is an energy hub for China for its coal, gas and crude oil reserves but most of the job opportunities in the sector are closed for Uighurs, a Reuters report states.

A bus carrying mineworkers ran off a road in the Peru on Friday, leaving at least 27 people dead, according to local officials and the mining company.

Three men authorities say participated in a plot in which drugs were sent through the U.S. Postal Service from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island and which included the alleged kidnapping of a mail carrier have been indicted, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Kareem AbdulJabbar is an NBA legend, but the man known for his trademark skyhook shot has also devoted his life advocating for equality and social justice.