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It has been added to municipal water for decades, but a federal judge in California has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to further regulate fluoride because high levels could pose “an unreasonable risk” to the intellectual development of children. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen ruled Tuesday that the scientific evidence of fluoride’s health risks…

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to combat vice and promote virtue. The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had set up a…

Donald Trump plans a series of sweeping actions on his first day back in office, including pardoning January 6th rioters, firing special counsel Jack Smith, and reversing Biden-era climate policies. He also aims to overhaul the federal workforce, potentially firing thousands of career employees he deems disloyal.

JERUSALEM—A female Iranian student on Sunday stripped down to her underwear on the campus of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University to protest an assault on her by the IRGC’s paramilitary militia, known as the Basij, because she allegedly was improperly wearing the mandatory hijab. Since it’s part of the IRGC, the Basij is a U.S-designated terrorist…

The Supreme Court temporarily halted a Mumbai college’s directive banning hijabs, caps, and badges, but allowed the prohibition on burqas, niqabs, or stoles to remain. The decision came in response to a petition by three students. Senior advocate Madhavi Divan raised concerns about religious symbols in education, which the court agreed to review further in…