Tag: ban
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Flight ban strains humanitarian efforts and frustrates Haitians trying to fly home
All travel between the U.S. and Haiti, including much-needed aid operations, continues to be impacted by a 30-day ban imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration last week, after gunfire struck a Spirit Airlines plane as it attempted to land in Port-au-Prince. Linda Thelemaque regularly travels to the southern city of Les Cayes in her role…
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Australia launches ‘landmark’ bill to ban social media for children under 16
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s center-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in Parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to $32 million for social media platforms for systemic breaches. Australia plans to trial an age-verification system that may include biometrics or government identification to enforce a social media age cut-off, some of the…
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New Mexico governor won’t renew ban on carrying firearms in public
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said she will not renew a public health order that temporarily banned carrying firearms in public parks and playgrounds in Albuquerque, the state’s largest city. The temporary order, which went into effect in September 2023, was intended to slow gun violence in the metro area, but high-ranking state officials,…
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Pope urged at LGBTQ meeting to reverse church ban on gender-affirming care
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ activists at the Vatican. The 80-minute meeting, held privately at the guesthouse where the pope lives, included a Catholic sister who works with LGBTQ people, a member of…
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Brazil lifts ban on X after Elon Musk complies with court orders
Elon Musk’s X is getting back up and running in Brazil after a months-long standoff between the company and the country’s federal supreme court minister, Alexandre de Moraes. “X is proud to return to Brazil,” the company wrote in a post on X from its global government affairs account. “Giving tens of millions of Brazilians access to our…
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Supreme Court weighs challenge to Biden ban on untraceable ‘ghost gun’ kits
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday takes on another battle over restrictions on firearms as the justices consider the Biden administration’s move to ban “ghost gun” kits that allow people to assemble deadly weapons at home while skirting existing regulations. The administration wants the kits to be regulated the same way as other firearms,…
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Georgia Supreme Court reinstates state’s 6-week abortion ban
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal from the state to an earlier ruling from a lower court that had struck down the law. The decision from the state Supreme Court goes into effect at 5 p.m. local time, meaning that most abortions will again…
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State judge strikes down Georgia abortion ban
A judge in Georgia’s Fulton County struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban Monday, allowing the procedure to resume and making it legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. The state law was signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019 but didn’t take effect until July 2022 after it faced a legal challenge and…
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Russia proposes ban on child-free lifestyle
Russia’s fight against the West and its values has taken aim this week at an “ideology” that the Kremlin and its allies say threatens the country’s very foundations: people not wanting to have children. Lawmakers have proposed a ban on “propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house…
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Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without…