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Issued on: 27/04/2023 - 00:59 A federal judge in Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of messaging app Telegram, citing the social media platform's alleged…

By AMY BETH HANSON, SAM METZ and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republicans in Montana barred transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the House floor for the rest of the 2023…

By AMY BETH HANSON, SAM METZ and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr was barred from participating on the House floor as Republican leaders voted…

By AMY BETH HANSON, SAM METZ and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Transgender Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr said she is defending the LGBTQ+ community as the state House decides…

By AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Republican leaders will vote Wednesday on censuring or expelling lawmaker Zooey Zephyr, a transgender state representative…

By AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s House speaker canceled a Tuesday floor session a day after seven protesters were arrested for disrupting proceedings…

By AMY BETH HANSON and SAM METZ - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s House speaker canceled a Tuesday floor session a day after seven protestors were arrested for disrupting proceedings…

Voices raised against the Kremlin are increasingly being silenced as Russia this week handed jail sentences to two prominent opponents of the current regime: Russian-British national Vladimir Kara-Murza was handed a…

But secondly, that there’s really no mechanism available to defend democracy from this kind of thing. Not in America, and not here, either. Australian media companies frequently complain that our defamation laws are undemocratically…

Ndow Darboe was jubilant when Gambia’s opposition leader Adama Barrow ousted the country’s autocratic president Yahya Jammeh, sharing the widespread view that it would usher in an era of renewal after decades of dictatorship. But in the six…