Justices will hear Idaho and West Virginia appeals on laws barring trans girls from female public school teams

The US supreme court announced on Thursday that it will consider a bid by West Virginia and Idaho to enforce their state laws banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public sector schools.

The decision means the court is prepared to take up another civil rights challenge to Republican-backed restrictions on transgender people.

Album launch party was ending when three people in an SUV began firing on a crowd outside a nightclub

Four people were killed by gunfire and 14 others hospitalized overnight after a drive-by shooting outside a private nightclub event in Chicago, police said on Thursday.

At least three were in critical condition. City news outlets reported that the incident happened after a launch party for the new album by the local rap star Mello Buckzz and that her boyfriend was one of those shot.