Although Sarah McBride is the first openly transgender person elected to the U.S. Congress, she is not the first trans politician to have a hostile fellow member forbid her from using the restroom of her choosing. When Vladimir Luxuria was elected to the Italian Parliament in 2006, she was temporarily prohibited from accessing the ladies' room. She expressed her sympathy for Delaware Democrat McBride. "They did that to me," Luxuria, 59, stated over the phone from her Rome home to NBC News. "What is happening to Sarah McBride is rank politics." Last week, Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina and a fervent supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, introduced a resolution to forbid lawmakers and House staff from using single-sex facilities other than those that correspond to the...

In the process of making history, Moana 2 is sailing to theaters. In addition to its English version, the film is the first Disney animated film to be released in an Indigenous language. Moana 2 Reo M ori, which will have voiceovers in the native Polynesian language, will be a special release in New Zealand theaters on Thursday to coincide with the Wednesday worldwide debut. The translation of the title is "Moana 2 M ori language." Some people just call the language "te reo" or "reo M ori." In addition to Moana 2, Three years later, Reo M ori reunites Moana with Maui for a new sailing adventure after she has got an unexpected call from her navigational ancestors. Both the first and second translations include Tair whiti, one of the many M ori dialects, and the original Moana was also trans...

Human error was the cause of a 2-year-old western lowland gorilla's death in a Canadian zoo earlier this month, the zoo said. Colleen Baird, director of animal care, health, and welfare at the Calgary Zoo, said in a statement on Wednesday that Eyare, the female gorilla, had been wandering between various rooms in the zoo's gorilla enclosure on November 12 when a member of her care team triggered a hydraulic door. When the care team member unintentionally opened the incorrect door while attempting to remove Eyare from other gorillas for a private training session, the young gorilla was struck and suffered severe head injuries. Eyare passed away from her wounds even though the zoo's veterinary staff started life-saving procedures right away, according to Baird. A official inquiry into Eyare'...

FRAMINGHAM, MA (AP) During his nearly three decades in prison, Michael Sullivan suffered severe beatings in multiple prison attacks, lost his mother and four brothers, and saw his girlfriend move on with her life. All for a murder he denied for a long time. Sullivan, 64, received some justice earlier this month when a Massachusetts jury found him not guilty of Wilfred McGrath's 1986 murder and robbery. Despite state laws capping awards for unjust convictions at $1 million, he received $13 million. Although Sullivan's conviction was not assured by his evidence, the jury also discovered that a state police scientist had given a false statement throughout the trial. In recent years, the state has overturned a number of convictions, this one being the most recent. Speaking in his primary lawye...

Since taking power three years ago, the Taliban have unjustly jailed journalists 256 times, according to the United Nations mission to Afghanistan, which asked Afghan authorities to safeguard the media. The Taliban-led foreign ministry denied having detained that many journalists in a response to the news, adding that those detained had committed a crime. According to a statement from the U.N. mission (UNAMA) and the U.N. Human Rights Offices, journalists in Afghanistan faced difficult working conditions. According to Roza Otunbayeva, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' special representative, they frequently encounter ambiguous guidelines regarding what they may and cannot report, putting them at danger of intimidation and arbitrary detention for alleged criticism. We want the de facto au...

In order to get to loved ones for Thanksgiving, millions of travelers will have to contend with bad weather and clogged roads on Tuesday. Forecasters also predict that it will be chilly for many. In an early-morning update, the National meteorological Service (NWS) predicted that two meteorological systems will spread a "Arctic outbreak" throughout the Central United States on Wednesday and into Thanksgiving Thursday. Only Tuesday and Wednesday will see temperatures in the Northern Great Plains fall to the upper teens and 20s, which is 15 to 25 degrees below the seasonal average. Low temperatures on Thursday might range from 0 to 13 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Twin Cities' NWS office. An atmospheric river event—an aerial flow of moisture that can bring heavy precipitation—was pred...

Donald Trump's Cabinet choices are putting his power over Senate Republicans to the test. Why, after Roe v. Wade was overruled, the number of abortions did not decline as precipitously as expected. Mario Andretti, a former racing champion, also discusses his initial plans for his new Formula 1 team. What to know today is as follows. Trump's Cabinet nominees test his sway with Senate Republicans Republicans reclaimed the Senate majority after Donald Trump won the presidency, raising concerns about whether his supporters and party members would support his choices or oppose them. The answer was no for former Representative Matt Gaetz. Gaetz reportedly withdrew from consideration of the president-elect's choice to head the Justice Department because of substantial resistance from Senate Re...

High-ranking officers of Brazil's army are heard discussing attempts to urge then-President Jair Bolsonaroto to stage a coup and stay in power in a cache of leaked audio recordings from late 2022. The Federal Police received the 53 audios, which The Associated Press accessed on Monday. They offer a unique opportunity to hear military personnel voicing their desire to prevent leftist Luiz Incio Lula da Silva from assuming office. Some of those recordings were cited by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who is in charge of the police's extensive investigation, in his decision last week to order the arrest of five individuals for planning the 2022 assassination of then-President-elect Lula and then trying to remove him from office on January 8, 2023, when Bolsonaro supporters destroye...

Lebanon's AABRA Despite the constant fear of bombs, Mayada El Sayed effectively removes ripe olives from a tree while wearing duct tape across her fingers to prevent bruises. A 45-minute drive south of the capital, Beirut, and a few miles inland from Lebanon's Mediterranean coast, El Sayed, 45, said she was afraid of the frequent strikes, one of which was less than half a mile from Bustan El Zeitoun Grove, where she was employed, as Israel advances into the neighboring country to combat the militant group Hezbollah. The mother of three expressed concern about what might happen to her kids at their house in Haret Saida, a community where numerous Israeli bombings have targeted residences and commercial buildings. She expressed her concern that she might not be able to return home to them....