Going against his party’s general stance on sex change treatments for minors, Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday that he has vetoed a GOP-introduced bill that would have banned hormonal and surgical sex change medical interventions for minors, saying the government should not take the place of parents in deciding on transgender treatments CBS News reports.
Intensifying the US-China space race, the US Space Force on Thursday launched its secretive X-37B robot spaceplane aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that is capable of taking it farther into space than ever before, Reuters reports.
Ukraine was preparing for an unhappy New Year on Sunday after coming under massive Russian air strikes that killed scores of people. The attacks come as the president of Ukraine struggles to maintain the gigantic Western support needed to stand up against Russia’s military, which invaded his country in February 2022.
A tense calm returned Sunday to Serbia’s capital after thousands of people rallied there in the biggest protest yet against hardline President Aleksandar Vucic, who they accuse of orchestrating fraud in this month’s parliamentary and municipal elections.