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Arkansas has become the first state to ban gender-affirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, after lawmakers overrode the governor’s objections to enact the ban on Tuesday.The state’s governor, Asa Hutchinson, had vetoed the bill on Monday following pleas from pediatricians, social workers and the paren...

Law, which supporters hope will force the supreme court to revisit Roe v Wade, does not provide exceptions for cases of rape or incestArkansas has passed a new law banning nearly all abortions in the state, a sweeping measure that supporters hope will force the US supreme court to revisit Roe v Wade but opponents vow to block before it takes effect later this...

In the 80s, a young mother with no medical training or resources looked after scores of ostracised patients – and the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on her lawn. Now she is paying tribute to the lostRuth Coker Burks has never been an obedient person. When she was visiting a friend in hospital and noticed a nearby door covered in red tarpaulin, the word...

A formal announcement is expected on Monday as the 38-year-old bids to succeed her father, Mike Huckabee, in the state leadership roleSarah Sanders, Donald Trump’s former chief spokeswoman and one of his closest aides, is running for Arkansas governor, according to multiple reports.Sanders, who left the White House in 2019 to return to her home state, planned to announce her bid on Monday, according...

Lang Holland of the small town of Marshall posted on social media that ‘Marxist Democrats’ had ‘no right to live in this Republic’An Arkansas police chief resigned on Saturday, after posts under his name and picture advocating violence towards Democrats were found on Parler, a rightwing social media app. Related: 'Make America rake again': Four Seasons Total Landscaping cashes in on Trump fiasco Continue...

WHO reports record daily increase in coronavirus cases; Beijing doubles its daily testing capacity to identify cluster-related casesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has suspended imports of poultry products from a plant owned by an Arkansas-based meat processor, Tyson Inc, that has been hit by coronavirus, as authorities struggle to bring an outbreak in Beijing under control.China’s general administration of customs said...

Storms caused flooding, mudslides and knocked out electricity for about 750,000 in a 10-state swath Severe weather swept across the southern US on Sunday and Monday, killing at least 30 people and damaging hundreds of homes from Louisiana into the Appalachian mountains.The storms piled fresh misery atop the coronavirus pandemic, leaving more than a million homes and businesses without power amid floods and mudslides.In...

Twister destroyed buildings in Monroe, Louisiana, while three were killed in Mississippi due to severe weatherA tornado strike destroyed homes and left a trail of devastation across large parts of the US south on Sunday, as forecasters warned that a powerful Easter storm could affect more than a dozen states and millions of people before the early hours of Monday. By Sunday evening, the...

Deaths in Alabama, Lousiana, Texas, Oklahoma and IowaGulf coast states report widespread power outagesSevere storms sweeping across southern portions of the US and up into the midwest have been blamed for the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swathes of the country. Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas, in Alabama from...

100 years after hundreds of African Americans were reportedly killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a memorial is set to bring details of the tragedy to lightCharlie McClain was surprised to learn that he was related to one of the Elaine Twelve.It came out when McClain, 58, asked his mother earlier this year about the largely forgotten mass killings in his Arkansas Delta home town a...