Media in Afghanistan faces new restrictions, but the regime says the law will be implemented gradually

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A school district in northeast Florida must put back in libraries three dozen books as part of a settlement reached Thursday with students and parents who sued over what they said was an unlawful decision to limit access to dozens of titles containing LGBTQ+ content.

VisitFlorida.com's deleted section included LGBTQ travel resources and boasted that the state is popular with "a gay community looking for a sense of belonging and acceptance."

Mexico has elected its first female president, with preliminary results showing Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and Mexico City’s former mayor, is on track to win the country’s largest election in history.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has added what it calls the "LGBT movement" to a list of extremist and terrorist organisations, state media said on Friday.

Discussions on collapse often turn to signs and signals - The economy, politics and social tensions have become increasingly unstable for many years now, and much like adding more and more weight to a man standing on a frozen lake, eventually the ice is going to break. The question is, how do we know when that moment will be?

One evening in 2019, in a windowless building known as the “tomb” in the center of Yale’s campus, the members of Skull and Bones snapped. There they were, having been granted membership to the most elite secret society at one of the most elite universities in the world—part of a rare group that for generations included individuals from the most powerful families on the planet. Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and Buckleys have all been in Skull and Bones. Three Bonesmen would go on to become president of the United States. Their traditions (including oaths of secrecy upon admission) and antics (stealing the gravestone of Yale’s founder), and the rumors about them (that the Bones tomb contains several human skulls), are legendary—and an intense source of campus gossip.

A total of 673 books, from classics to best-sellers, have been removed from Orange County classrooms this year for fear they violate new state rules that ban making “sexual conduct” available to public school students.

Pope Francis formally permitted Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples on Monday, in a significant shift in the church’s approach to LGBTQ+ people.

Sitting picturesquely in the foothills of the hiking and skiing mecca of the Rocky Mountains, Boulder isn't known as America's fittest city for nothing.

Police in Moscow targeted multiple gay-friendly nightclubs and a men's sauna in what appeared to be simultaneous raids, local media outlets said Saturday.

Russia’s Supreme Court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism on Thursday, in the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the increasingly conservative country.

The Vatican has confirmed a ban on Catholics becoming Freemasons, a centuries-old secretive society that the Catholic Church has long viewed with hostility and has an estimated global membership of up to six million.

The show’s latest episode skewers company leadership including Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy—and has stirred reactions from the likes of Elon Musk and Gina Carano.

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas ruled on Tuesday that the state's new law limiting public drag performances was an unconstitutional restriction on speech and he permanently forbid enforcement of it.

Florida education officials on Wednesday unanimously approved harsher penalties against state college employees who violate a new law barring them and students from using restrooms or changing facilities for a gender other than the one assigned at birth.

Italy’s lower house of parliament has approved a divisive bill that could impose prison terms on parents that use surrogates to have children — if even the process was legally carried out overseas. The vote represents a step forward in the implementation of a socially conservative agenda backed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

In conjunction with its crackdown on the rights of same-sex parents, the Italian government has begun retroactively stripping same-sex parents of their legal connection to their children.

When Elon Musk was taking over Twitter, he styled himself a free speech warrior. He repeatedly promised that all speech protected by the First Amendment would be allowed on the platform.

For a country with the world’s lowest fertility rate – one that has spent hundreds of billions of dollars trying to encourage women to have more babies – the idea of barring children from places like cafes and restaurants might seem a little counterproductive.