LINCOLN — The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has extended emergency regulations on gender-affirming care for minors that the agency approved after state lawmakers adopted stricter limits on such care in Legislative Bill 574.

The state agency was set to replace those emergency regulations from October with lasting ones as early as this week. However, HHS said it needed more time and extended the temporary regulations through the end of March.

MIAMI (AP) — Pedro Naranjo idolized his father growing up and followed him into the Venezuelan air force to fly helicopters. So deep was their bond that when the older Naranjo feared being jailed for plotting against Nicolás Maduro's socialist government, father and son fled to the United States together.