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world boxing council President Mauricio Sulaiman announced Thursday that the league is looking to expand the sport to allow transgender participation, but noted that they intend to create a separate category that follows an "at birth" rule to prevent wrestlers born of the opposite sex from competing. each other because of safety concerns. Sulaiman made the announcement during an interview with The Telegraph, telling the British outlet that the goal of the expansion is both "safety and inclusion". WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman poses with the Union Championship belt during the Tyson Fury & Dillian Whyte Media Work Out at Wembley…

2022 was bad, but it could have been worse. This essay is part of a end of year series looking at the silver linings.The first two quarters of 2022 began with negative gross domestic product growth. It looked like we were headed for a recession. The Fed had to tame inflation that was spiraling out of control, so it raised the federal funds target rate from 0.25% in March to 4.5% now. Faced with these higher interest rates, rising debt levels around the world stemming from policies to weather the pandemic placed severe constraints on fiscal policy. In the US,…

2022 was bad, but it could have been worse. This essay is part of a end of year series looking at the silver linings.In the current political climate, it's too soon to think that our democracy is no longer threatened, but after this year's midterm results, we can celebrate that the predictions of its demise were premature.There was every reason to think he would die, particularly in a midterm election year after the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill inspired by the former president's refusal to grant a free and fair election he lost and his amplification of the…

HONG KONG — A Chinese fighter jet flew dangerously close to a US Air Force plane conducting routine operations over the disputed South China Sea last week, the US military said Thursday, forcing the US aircraft to take evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision.The incident reflects what the United States calls a worrying trend of unsafe interception practices by the Chinese military.The US Air Force RC-135 aircraft was in international airspace on December 21 when it was intercepted by a Chinese navy J-11 fighter jet, the US Indo-Pacific Command said. USA in a statement. The Chinese aircraft came to within…