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Seattle Public Schools has authorised potential legal action against Washington’s Initiative 638, a measure banning transgender girls from competing in girls’ K-12 school sports. The district’s board approved Resolution No. 2026/27-11 at a special meeting on Monday, November 9, giving school leaders permission to appoint legal counsel and pursue proceedings they consider necessary to protect pupils and the district’s interests. Initiative 638, formally known as the Defending Equity in Interscholastic Sports Act, was approved by almost 56 per cent of voters in the November 3 general election. It is due to take effect on December 3. The law requires school…

The price of a Bunnings sausage sizzle could rise to about $5.20 by 2036 if food inflation continues at its current rate, according to a new projection. The iconic sausage in a bun has remained at $3.50 since July 2022. A can of soft drink, currently $2, could reach about $2.96 over the same period, taking the cost of a sausage and drink to roughly $8.15. For a family of four, a weekend visit for sausages and drinks could therefore cost about $32.61, compared with $22 today. The estimates were compiled by data experts at Playcasino.com using food inflation recorded…

A light plane crashed into a car near Lilydale Airport in Yering, north-east of Melbourne, leaving two people with head injuries. Emergency services were called to the scene at about 2.30pm on Tuesday after the aircraft struck a white Volkswagen travelling on a road close to the runway. Four people were assessed by paramedics. A woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s were taken by road ambulance to Maroondah Hospital, where both were in a stable condition. Ambulance Victoria said the pair had suffered head injuries, while the other two people assessed did not require emergency treatment…

Anthropic’s initial public offering is at the centre of a market-focused update carrying the message “Please try again”, although no further details about the offering are provided.

Three Queensland war memorials have been vandalised in separate incidents just days before Remembrance Day, with police arresting two men over attacks in Cleveland and Hervey Bay. The damage included a 106-year-old sandstone cenotaph being toppled in Cleveland, a flagpole repeatedly rammed by a ute in Hervey Bay and tyre tracks cut across a memorial site near Bundaberg. Queensland Police Service Superintendent Jon Kent condemned the incidents as “cowardly and disgraceful”, while Premier David Crisafulli said tougher penalties could be considered if court outcomes were insufficient. Arrests over Queensland war memorial attacks At Anzac Memorial Park in Cleveland, the sandstone…

A man has been arrested after a woman was found dead in a suspected homicide on the MSC Seascape, forcing the cruise ship to return to Galveston, Texas. Jason Leon Watford, 48, was taken from the vessel in handcuffs and booked into Galveston County Jail on a federal hold, where records showed he remained. The FBI’s Houston field office said it was investigating a suspected homicide and confirmed that a man had been arrested. The victim’s identity, age and name have not been released. Passengers alleged that Watford killed his partner during an argument on the ship’s 10th deck. The…

Sofia Franklyn has said she fears her new memoir could be discredited by people featured in it, including her former podcast co-host Alex Cooper and Cooper’s husband, Matt Kaplan. Franklyn, 34, discussed the concerns during an episode of The Bossticks podcast as her memoir, “Daddy Issues”, is released on Tuesday. She said she had heard that “some main characters in my book” were working to undermine her account, adding: “I heard as soon as, literally, as early as, like, yesterday.” Sofia Franklyn fears her family could become ‘collateral’ Franklyn specifically named Cooper and Kaplan when discussing how she believed they…

A 15-year-old boy was found dead inside a home near Cle Elum, Washington, after a police operation to arrest him on a warrant from King County Juvenile Court Services. Deputies from the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office went to the property near Big Creek Road and Nelson Siding Road on Monday afternoon to take the teenager into custody. Attempts to communicate with him broke down at about 11am, officials said, prompting the deployment of the Kittitas County Regional Tactical Response Team and crisis negotiators. After securing a search warrant authorising entry, negotiators made repeated efforts to contact the boy. He did…

Mitchell Starc has rejected Usman Khawaja’s ball-tampering claim that every member of Australia’s team knew about the plan during the 2018 Test series against South Africa. The fast bowler said his recollection remained unchanged from a 2021 statement in which he, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon denied knowing that sandpaper had been taken on to the field in Cape Town. Khawaja’s allegations, published in his autobiography Sabr, were backed by former Australia team-mate David Warner on Monday evening. The claims have reignited scrutiny of the scandal ahead of Australia’s home Test summer. Starc, speaking in Sydney, said he…

US immigration agents entered a grocery store in New Jersey and escorted a man outside, apparently taking him into custody, video footage shows. A crowd confronted the agents as they left, shouting at them and demanding that they leave the store. The footage shows the agents moving through the grocery store before taking the man out, although it is not clear from the material what led to the arrest or what happened afterwards.