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Today, we are experiencing an organized force that is trying to erase trans youth from public life: organizations, billionaires and religious extremists have been working for decades to create laws and influence public opinion to harm and attack trans people. Since the 1980s, there has been a proliferation of institutions on the right with innocuous sounding names but an ominous goal. Organizations such as Family Research Council, Family Policy Alliance and Alliance Defending Freedom are all seeking to enshrine religious extremism—cloaked as religious liberty—into American law....

In this article, you’ll learn about the working of the Bubble Sort algorithm, the pseudocode of the Bubble Sort algorithm, its time and space complexity, and its implementation in various programming languages like C++, Python, C, and JavaScript. How Does the Bubble Sort Algorithm Work? Bubble Sort is the simplest sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the list, compares adjacent elements, and swaps them if they’re in the wrong order....

But today, as U.S. armor advances through Iraqi Shiite territory toward Baghdad, nobody arrives from Beirut to visit this victory shrine to Islamist resistance. Almost nobody came yesterday, either, or the day before that. Indeed, Kfar Kila is beyond quiet–it seems dead, animated only by the yellow flags of the Party of God–Hizbullah–that flap above more oil portraits of fresh-faced “martyrs” lining the streets. Two bored Hizbullah security men carrying Motorola walkie-talkies watch over the barbed-wire border fence....

Each morning, after she’d had a bath and her medications, she would tell me what she wanted to eat that evening. She loved food and was once a fabulous cook who loved to try new things. She was missing the comforting routines and rhythms of planning, shopping for and preparing a good meal. After all, she’d raised five children, and cooking was a big part of her life. It occurred to me that Mom was going to miss the holiday season, the time of year when she most loved showing off her culinary prowess....

Monaco are ready to make a world record £85m bid for Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo and pay the 28-year-old a £17m annual salary. Full story: Independent What’s the story? Well, where has this come from? Mind you, if you’d said Monaco would sign Falcao and James Rodriguez back in April I would have laughed. But this is Cristiano Ronaldo. Monaco are deadly serious about making themselves a ’boutique’ club, and in order to persuade people to pay £2000 to watch a game of football, you need to have reason....

Julian Green: We deserved to lose The champion travels to Signal Iduna Park looking for a win that would put nine points between it and Thomas Tuchel’s side after just 11 matches. Dortmund is the division’s top scorers but has conceded twice as many goals as Bayern, which sits unbeaten at the top of the table. And Ancelotti hopes to take advantage of any uncertainties at the back, having hinted at a possible formation switch....

The email links to a two-minute video hosted on McCain’s campaign site in which the senator explains his admiration for Reagan over pictures of McCain with the Gipper and Nancy, and footage of McCain’s time as a POW. “I enlisted as a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution,” McCain says, as patriotic music pipes up. “Still today, I think of him all the time.” McCain isn’t the only GOP hopeful gunning for Reagan’s legacy....

That undiplomatic comment did not come out of the blue. The off-again, on-again haggling among 115 countries has exhausted even its most ardent advocates in Washington. After seven years of contention, negotiators in Geneva finally seem ready to close a deal that could boost U.S. grain exports, protect software from piracy and make it tougher for France to restrict Arnold Schwarzenegger films to preserve its “cultural sovereignty.” But influential members of Congress, unhappy with the results and worried that a fierce trade debate next year could derail health-care reform, are telling Clinton just to leave the existing GATT rules in place....

In a press briefing on Sunday morning, Lieutenant Pamela Castro told reporters that Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) officers were first alerted to reports of a shooting at the venue at 11:56 p.m. on Saturday night. The first officer was dispatched to the incident at 11:57 p.m. and police arrived at Club Q around midnight. Police detained the suspect two minutes later. Carter Springs Police Department Chief Adrian Vasquez, who described the tragedy as “a senseless and evil” shooting, later confirmed Aldrich was the suspect and that two firearms were found at the scene....

Opener C R Gnaneshwar led the way with a solid 65 after K V Sasikanth’s five-wicket haul helped the host restrict Hyderabad to 271. Riding on half-centuries by Himalay Agarwal (59) and captain Akshat Reddy (57) and a cameo by No11 Mehdi Hassan, Hyderabad, overnight 226 for 7, added a further 45 runs. Gnaneshwar and D B Prashant Kumar (32) provided a good start for Andhra and put on 58 runs....

Meldonium, which was found to be a performance enhancer, was banned late in 2015, with Sharapova admitting she had tested positive during the 2016 Australian Open. Handed a two-year ban from tennis, Sharapova maintained her innocence, saying that she had been taking the medication to cope with cardiac issues. Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal were among those who lauded the ban on the Russian, saying it had been the right decision in the spirit of the game....

Guardiola even made an offer for him but AC Milan refused. Pirlo would fit into the Barcelona mold perfectly and it would have been a joy to watch him play in Pep’s style at Barca but Milan did not want him to leave the club. In an interview with Marca, he said, “Pep’s the No.1 coach [in the world] without a doubt, Look at what he did with Barcelona and then Bayern Munich....

The three-time NFL MVP flexed his power by requesting a trade for Randall Cobb, who played for the Packers from 2011-18 before single-season stints with the Cowboys and Texans. Rodgers’ wish was granted, as Green Bay sent a 2022 sixth-round pick to Houston in exchange for the veteran wide receiver. MORE: Rodgers reveals just how close he was to retiring During Wednesday’s edition of “The Pat McAfee Show,” guest host and former Packers linebacker A....

“This is it. I am back in boxing,” the 39-year-old Pacquiao said after his seventh-round knockout of Lucas Matthysse on Sunday. “I am not done. I’m still there.” It was Pacquiao’s first bout since a contentious loss last year to Jeff Horn in Australia, and since parting ways with longtime trainer Freddie Roach to work with Buboy Fernandez. “It’s just a matter of time. You have to rest and get it back and that’s what I did....

The Padres shortstop went deep in consecutive at-bats against Clayton Kershaw during a 6-1 San Diego victory, but even better than the “what” was the “when”: Tatis did it on the 22nd anniversary of his father hitting two grand slams in the same inning. MORE: Panic or patience with these slow starters? And the “where” was pretty great, too: The Tatises both did their thing at Dodger Stadium. Oh, and did we mention that the younger Tatis wears 23, his pops’ old number?...