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The justices on Friday granted emergency requests from the Biden administration and New York-based Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone

Democratic Rep. Zooey Zephyr on Friday sought to speak on a bill to prevent minors from seeing porn online, but House speaker Matt Regier blocked the request

A song featuring ex-President Donald Trump and a choir of prisoners charged with crimes related to the deadly Capitol insurrection briefly took the No. 1 spot on iTunes last month, edging out Taylor Swift

Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus and safety C.J. Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney are suspended through at least the the 2023 season for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season

Hartford police say the shooter or shooters appeared to target three males who were standing on a sidewalk Thursday night. The girl was was shot in her head as she sat in a parked car

An estimated 16,000 private U.S. citizens are registered with the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum as being in Sudan, where warring factions are in a violent conflict

At least four people have died in mass killings once every six and 1/2 days this year. The numbers exclude perpetrator deaths.

Speaker Matt Regier said Thursday he would not recognize any representative that he doesn’t feel can “maintain decorum.” A conservative group of lawmakers referred to Rep. Zooey Zephyr using male pronouns in a letter that called for a “commitment to civil discourse”

The justices are weighing arguments that allowing restrictions contained in lower-court rulings to take effect would severely disrupt the availability of the drug mifepristone

The measure would cover more than 50 types of guns, including AR- or AK-style rifles. It bans the future sale, distribution, manufacture and importation of these firearms

Third grade has always been pivotal in a child’s academic life, but pandemic-fueled school interruptions have made it much harder

Four young people were killed and 32 others were hurt in Saturday’s shooting at the birthday celebration in Dadeville, a small city in east Alabama. It was the 16th mass killing in the U.S. this year

Most of those manufacturers’ cars sold in the United States over the last decade do not have engine immobilizers. This device prevents the engine from starting unless the key is present

In a statement released Thursday, the family says they are working “vigorously” to see that the rifle is destroyed. They said federal agents took possession of the rifle on Monday

While two-thirds of the country now offers legal sports betting, only six states offer online casino gambling, confounding industry hopes of similar growth

Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill declined to say what led to the shooting, citing the ongoing investigation. But he says a broad search is underway for the perpetrator

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey finds that 4 in 10 U.S. adults believe Trump acted illegally in New York but it found that about half of all U.S. adults believe he broke the law in Georgia

Honest mistakes and simple acts like going to the wrong address or car in a parking lot, or even just ringing the wrong doorbell, can seem like a fateful question of trust

Central Oklahoma saw tornadoes with two deaths and several injuries reported in the town of Cole and a third death in another county. The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center says an additional round of storms is expected Thursday night in the region

A whistleblower says they have information about a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition,” of the criminal investigation related to the younger Biden’s taxes and foreign business work

The legislation is unlikely to advance further because the Democratic-led Senate will not support it and the White House said President Joe Biden would veto it

The new law takes effect immediately. It allows prosecutors to charge health care providers with felonies for performing sex reassignment surgeries on minors

The DOE selected 25 teams to participate in a $10 million competition designed to fast-track the efforts of solar developers working on community solar projects.

Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues

The new abortion controversy comes less than a year after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright

The Board of Education approved a ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the law that bans those lesson up to grade 3

The Republican legislative package aims to revive a number of policies either enacted or proposed under then-President Donald Trump that restricted asylum rules