April 20, 2023: El Nino return, Transgender student athletes, Ralph Yarl, Yemen stampede, Oklahoma

April 20, 2023: El Nino returns, Transgender student athletes ban, Ralph Yarl, Yemen stampede, Oklahoma, Tornadoes

1. The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say.

2. The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban transgender women and girls from competing in women's and girls' school sports, weighing in on an issue that has riled social conservatives.

3. An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a Black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man's house in Kansas City pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Wednesday during his first court appearance in the case.

4. At least 78 people were killed in a stampede in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as residents gathered at a school to receive cash donations distributed by merchants during Ramadan, witnesses and the Houthi administration said on Thursday.

5. Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes swept through Central U.S. killing at least two people in Oklahoma.

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