Police make arrests at UCLA in tense clashes with protesters

South Carolina’s Senate is debating a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The bill was passed by the state House in January and would bar health professionals from performing gender-transition surgeries, prescribing puberty-blocking drugs and overseeing hormone treatments for patients under 18 years old. School principals or vice principals would also have to notify parents or guardians if a child wanted to use a different name than their legal one or a nickname or pronouns that did not match their sex at birth. If passed and signed by the governor, South Carolina would be the 25th state to pass a ban on gender-affirming care.

Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law. That's after Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that gained traction after police accused a Venezuelan man of beating a nursing student to death on the University of Georgia campus. Supporters say the law could help prevent future crimes, while opponents warn turning local officers into immigration police will make immigrants less willing to report crimes. The Republican governor also signed a separate law requiring cash bail for 30 additional crimes and restricting people and charitable bail funds from posting multiple cash bonds unless they meet the requirements to become a bail bond company.

Wisconsin school district says active shooter 'neutralized' outside middle school

LONDON  — A 14-year-old boy has been killed and four others have been injured by a man wielding a sword who attacked members of the public and police officers in a northeast London suburb. Police said that a 36-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder. Chief Supt. Stuart Bell said the violence wasn't being treated as terror-related or a “targeted attack.” Two police officers were hospitalized for stab wounds. Two other people were also injured. The Metropolitan Police said they were called early Tuesday to reports of a vehicle being driven into a house and people being stabbed close to the Hainault subway station.

Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger — at age 40. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced the updated guidance Tuesday. It also says women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year. Previously, it said women could choose to start breast cancer screening as young as 40, with a stronger recommendation that women get the exams every two years starting at age 50. The nudge toward earlier screening is meant to address the increasing incidence of breast cancer among women in their 40s and the higher breast cancer death rate among Black women compared to white women.

Republican state attorneys general are challenging a new federal regulation that mandates protections for transgender students at schools. In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal courts in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, states argue that the recently announced rule harms girls. The states oppose provisions that bar blanket prohibitions on transgender students using the school bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender. They also object to provisions that call for school staff to use transgender students' pronouns. Lawyers for the states are asking to delay implementation of the rule, which is to take effect Aug. 1.

ATLANTA (AP) — The second of two new nuclear reactors in Georgia has entered commercial operation. Georgia Power said Monday that Plant Vogtle's Unit 4 is complete. The project has cost billions more and took years longer than projected. Unit 3 began commercial operations last summer. They’re the first two nuclear reactors built in the United States in decades. They're projected to cost Georgia Power and three other owners $31 billion. Utilities and political supporters are hailing the plant’s completion. But calculations show Vogtle’s electricity will never be cheaper than other sources the owners could have chosen. A typical Georgia Power customer will see a $9 rate hike to pay for Vogtle.

United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of a legislative gathering that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy. Delegates to the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will be meeting all this week before wrapping up their 11-day session on Friday. They’ve already endorsed a plan to give regions more autonomy in decision-making. But whether that measure maintains church unity remains to be seen. One-quarter of its U.S. churches left between 2019 and 2023, mainly conservative churches dismayed by progressive trends, and some are calling for international churches to do the same.

Protests are roiling college campuses nationwide as administrators with graduation ceremonies next month face demands that schools cut financial ties to Israel against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war. About 275 people were arrested on Saturday at campuses including Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State University and Washington University in St. Louis. Those have pushed the number of arrests nationwide to nearly 900 since New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University and arrested more than 100 demonstrators on April 18. Since then, students have dug in at dozens of pro-Palestinian encampments around the country, prompting a range of responses from administrators.

Residents began sifting through the rubble after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, Nebraska, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions. People gathered Saturday morning in the streets in the Elkhorn area of Omaha amid the scattered remains of the homes, and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen planned to tour the area later in the day. Some injuries were reported. But there were no immediate reports of fatalities as multiple tornadoes were reported in Nebraska and Iowa. The most destructive storm moved from a largely rural area into the suburbs of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people. The National Weather Service forecast for Saturday says tornadoes are possible in parts of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

Trump's lawyers grill ex-tabloid publisher in first week of hush money trial

The U.S. flu season appears to be over. It was long, but federal health officials and doctors say it was a moderate one. Last week, for the third straight week, medical visits for flu-like illnesses dipped below the threshold for what’s counted as an active flu season. Springtime upticks in flu are possible. But other indicators, like hospitalizations and patient testing, also show low and declining activity. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there have been at least 34 million illnesses and 24,000 deaths from flu since the beginning of October.