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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law new legislation aimed at limiting children’s exposure to drag events or other sexual performances on public property or businesses across the state. Senate Bill 12 (pdf) restricts certain “sexually oriented performances” from taking place on public property, on the premises of a commercial enterprise, or in the presence of individuals under the age of 18. Under the bill, a “sexually oriented performance” is defined as a visual performance in which the entertainer is nude, is a male performer exhibiting as a female, or a female performer exhibiting as a male and is wearing clothing, makeup, or other…

A New Zealand high school maths teacher has had his teaching license cancelled for refusing to call his Year 10 student by her preferred name and pronouns. The New Zealand teaching council’s Complaints Assessment Committee charged the teacher with serious misconduct for not calling the student by a male name and he/him pronouns, a charge the teacher denies. “I have been accused of serious misconduct and deny this charge,” he wrote in his submission to the Teacher’s Tribunal (pdf). “On the contrary, I believe I would be guilty of serious misconduct and child abuse if I was to call the…

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that will decide whether the United States government can be sued for monetary damages. The high court agreed on June 20 to review an appeals court ruling that Reginald Kirtz could sue the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for wrongly stating on his credit report that some of his loans were overdue, damaging his credit score. At issue is whether Congress waived the United States’ sovereign immunity from lawsuits when it modified consumer protection laws nearly 30 years ago. Kirtz sued the USDA in 2020, alleging that the agency violated the Fair…

The UK’s annual inflation rate unexpectedly remained unchanged in May at 8.7%, adding to the pressure on the Bank of England to increase the cost of borrowing. Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed annual inflation as measured by the consumer prices index held steady from the same level in April, reversing two months of gains as the soaring cost of living added to pressure on households. City economists had forecast a figure of 8.4%. In a shock report that underscored the challenge facing the central bank to curb the highest rates of inflation in decades, stabilising energy prices were offset by a…

Downing Street has refused to say if Rishi Sunak believes Boris Johnson misled MPs, repeatedly declining to express any view at all on a Commons vote which censured the former prime minister. Ministers were among 354 MPs who voted on Monday night to endorse a privileges’ committee report which found that Johnson had repeatedly lied when he assured the Commons he was unaware of lockdown-breaching parties. Only seven MPs voted against. Sunak was entirely absent from the near six-hour debate and the vote, with No 10 saying he had other engagements. Asked whether the prime minister had a view on the decision, which blocked Johnson from…

The “dumping” of hundreds of thousands of pieces of unused personal protective equipment near a nature reserve on the edge of the New Forest has mystified and angered local people. But the council has revealed the giant pile of boxes containing medical aprons in Calmore, Hampshire, will be recycled into plastic bags. Councillors said they reacted with horror after the discovery was made public at a Hampshire county council (HCC) meeting last week. It is not yet known if the items are linked to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the council has asked the Environment Agency to investigate. The large-scale discovery…

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are finalizing a mega-deal worth up to $150 million to bring the superstar to MLS, Sportico reported Monday, June 18. That figure consists of salary, signing bonus and equity in the club and runs through the 2025 season with an option for 2026, per Sportico. Revenue-sharing agreements with Adidas, Apple and Fanatics, all of which are MLS partners, are not included in the initial figure. Messi already has a lifetime deal with Adidas, per Forbes. MLS is not subsidizing the contract, and Messi will not have the same option to buy an MLS team that…

Along with Ellwood’s comments, there was a less than ringing endorsement of Bailey’s position on Tuesday morning by the work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, when asked if his party colleague should take the peerage. Stride told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “What is happening here, as I understand it, is that the Metropolitan police are looking into the events surrounding this Daily Mirror video that has recently been released and they will no doubt come to their conclusions and then there are mechanisms involving the forfeiture committee that can lead to changes to honours that have been given in…

Rishi Sunak’s attempts to move on from the legacy of Boris Johnson’s chaotic premiership have suffered a further setback as police announced they were “considering” fresh Partygate video footage of an event during lockdown at Conservative headquarters. The video, which was obtained by the Mirror newspaper, appears to show Conservative party staff drinking alcohol and dancing on 14 December 2020 at a gathering held by the campaign team of the unsuccessful London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who has since been given a peerage in Johnson’s resignation honours list. The levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, apologised for the footage, describing the actions of…

A hospital and doctors in California are facing a new lawsuit for removing the breasts of a 13-year-old girl after she claimed she was a boy. The defendants carried out “ideological and profit-driven medical abuse” when they prescribed her puberty blockers and hormones and, later, performed a double mastectomy, Charles LiMandri, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff, Layla Jane, said in a statement. Jane, now 18, was influenced by people online when she was just 11 and told her parents that she was a boy, prompting them to ask for guidance from doctors. While three doctors said Jane was…