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After Surgeon General Vivek Murthy celebrated Levine’s appointment as “the first female four-star officer to serve in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps” on Tuesday, Congressman Jim Banks criticized the description. “The title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” Banks, a Navy veteran who served …

Putin spoke at length at the plenary session of the Valdai Club in Sochi on Thursday, taking questions from the moderator as well as the audience, both those physically present and over video link. NATO on Russia’s doorstep The Russian leader noted the trip by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …

As a parent of schoolkids, I’m all up for pastoral care, a bit of safeguarding, wellbeing and welfare protection but when that oversteps the mark into teachers and administrators deceiving mums and dads about what’s going on with their children, I’m sorry, that’s too much. If that deception, however, also …

Once upon a time in America, before a tiny faction of radical progressives hijacked the Democratic Party, local school board meetings were dull and tedious affairs where crickets could be heard from inside of the mostly empty auditoriums. No more. These days, the meetings are sold-out shows with enraged parents …

Only taking up the sport earlier this year and struggling to find a gym until MMA Masters in Florida accepted her, McLaughlin launched her career with a win that came via a second-round submission on a Combate Global card. Yet the doubters and naysayers have poured scorn on the win, …

BBC Radio 1 is hosting a Drag Day on August 21, with four drag queens hosting their own shows. Be ready for glamour and excess from dawn until dusk. How it works on the radio remains to be seen – or rather heard – but the BBC can barely contain …

The video of the altercation, in his shop in the town of Aberdeen, Washington, shows the transgender councilman (or woman, depending on your viewpoint), Tiesa Meskis, entering the premises to initiate a confrontation with the store owner over his sign: ‘If you’re born with a d**k, you’re not a chick’.  …

These will forever be known as the ‘Pandemic Games’, played out in the shadow of Covid one year later than planned.   Better late than never, some might say; others would argue these were the Games that never should have happened at all. But go ahead they did, and in …

Super-heavyweight Hubbard’s much-debated debut at the Olympics ended in immediate failure on Monday, with the 43-year-old, who transitioned to become a woman in 2012, failing with snatch attempts at 120kg and 125kg. The clean and jerk part of the competition is yet to come, although registering no weight in the …

Dr Richard Budgett, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) medical and science director, has overseen rules based on guidelines from 2015 that have allowed transitioned athletes to compete when their testosterone is below a specified level for 12 months. Hubbard, the controversial New Zealander who is competing in the women’s competition …