## John Fetterman offers his office bathroom to Sarah McBride as she says she’ll follow GOP rules on restroom usage

Authored by inquirer.com

McBride said Wednesday that she will follow the rules though she disagrees with them.

“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms,” McBride said.

“There’s no job I’m afraid to lose if it requires me to degrade anyone,” Fetterman said in a post on X Wednesday.

We have a bathroom in my office that anybody is welcome to use, including Representative-elect Sarah McBride.”.

announced — on Transgender Day of Remembrance — that transgender individuals are not permitted to use Capitol bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

The GOP lawmakers’ targeting of McBride follows President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign that heavily focused on transgender people.

Advertisements that routinely aired in Pennsylvania targeting Vice President Kamala Harris’ stance on transgender rights have been credited — including by Fetterman — for potentially contributing to Trump’s victory. »

### The fight against pneumonia in five charts

Authored by gavi.org

Progress in reducing pneumonia deaths in children under five years has been slower than for other vaccine-preventable diseases.

Compared with measles, for which deaths have fallen to around a sixth of cases in 20 years, pneumonia deaths have fallen much more slowly.

Childhood pneumonia deaths are tightly linked to undernutrition, lack of safe drinking water and sanitation, indoor and outdoor air pollution as well as inadequate access to health care. »

### Father who faked his death to escape his wife and kids explains how he disappeared abroad without a trace

Authored by fortune.com

“The bad news is we don’t know where Ryan exactly is, and he has not yet decided to return home.”.

Borgwardt said he was in his apartment and briefly panned the camera but mostly showed just a door and bare walls.

Podoll said he wasn’t sure how he was supporting himself but speculated he has a job: “He’s a smart guy.”. »

### Russia Sends North Korea a Million Barrels of Oil, Report Finds

Authored by themotleytimes.com

Satellite images have shown that Russia has supplied North Korea with over a million barrels of oil as payment for weapons and troops.

A UK-based research group has revealed that Russia has provided North Korea with more than one million barrels of oil since March 2024.

South Korea has vowed to respond firmly, warning that the partnership between Russia and North Korea poses a significant global threat. »

### Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’

Authored by theguardian.com

View image in fullscreen Angela Merkel and Donald Trump speak during a bilateral meeting in Biarritz, south-west France, at a G7 summit.

Now unbound by diplomatic niceties, Merkel sizes up Trump as “emotional” and driven by grievance and neediness, in contrast to her “factual” approach.

The contentious relationship with Merkel seems to have haunted Trump, who was still speaking about her on the campaign trail three years after she left office. »

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