Football prodigy Baby Gronk and LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne went viral with a TikTok video, making Baby Gronk the talk of the town

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE Asian shares were subdued on Wednesday and the dollar hovered around a five-week peak

PepsiCo Inc. is on course to take over as the biggest US beverage company by market value, supplanting

Thousands are asked to evacuate from a town in the southwest over fears magma has spread underground.

WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he expected the debt ceiling bill to pass the House

New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán has not allowed a baserunner through seven innings against the Oakland Athletics

Rishi Sunak has sparked fury on social media following his remarks on transgender people at the Conservative Party conference on October 4. During his speech, the prime minister weighed in on sex education and transgender rights. "It shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in school about relationships, patients should know when hospitals are talking about men or women," he said. "And we shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be. They can’t, a man is a man and a woman is a woman. That’s just common sense." His comments follow a conference in which multiple Cabinet members have used their own speeches to mention transgender issues, with Health Secretary Steve Barclay announcing a ban on trans women from female NHS wards and Home Secretary Suella Braverman saying she would forbid sex offenders from changing gender. Sunak's speech has since prompted X/Twitter users to hit back at his "disgraceful" remarks: A day before Sunak's speech, Braverman attacked "gender ideology" and a "privileged woke minority", prompting heckling that saw Conservative London Assembly member Andrew Boff removed from the conference centre. Boff told the PA news agency after his removal: "This Home Secretary was basically vilifying gay people and trans people by this attack on LGBT ideology, or gender ideology. It is fictitious, it is ridiculous. "It is a signal to people who don’t like people who are LGBT+ people." Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

The House Republican Party is sliding even deeper into disarray as it feuds over its next speaker, apparently oblivious to the picture of US government dysfunction it is sending at a moment of worsening global crises.

By Safiyah Riddle New orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods rose modestly in July, suggesting business spending on

One of the state agencies involved in the ongoing investigation of alleged sports wagering violations by Iowa and Iowa State athletes announced there is no evidence suggesting the outcome of any contest involving the schools was affected by gambling interests

The U.N. special envoy for global education says the International Criminal Court should prosecute Taliban leaders for crimes against humanity for denying education and employment to Afghan girls and women

Chinese state media describes it as a "new starting point" for improving bilateral ties.