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The Iowa Attorney General’s Office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception — and in rare cases, abortions — for victims of sexual assault

Some communities are now finding a niche, offering an alternative to endless lift lines and soaring ticket prices

The president keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5% in March. More than 236,000 jobs were added. But there has been no political payoff for the Democrat

A transcript of a recent hearing held in a court in Texas shows Guillermo Turrent and Javier Gutiérrez failed to convince a judge to dismiss CFE International’s case against them

‘It is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles and is deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet to help ensure regional maritime security and stability,’ Commander Timothy Hawkins said

The Chinese military announced the start of three-day “combat readiness patrols” as a warning to Taiwanese who want to make the island’s de facto independence permanent

The removal of two Black lawmakers reflects a trend in dozens of states where Republicans are trying to make it harder to cast ballots and challenging the integrity of the election process

The White House says the U.S. president will visit Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday and Wednesday to mark 25 years since the Good Friday peace accord

The whiplash of the conflicting decisions is likely to put the issue on an accelerated path to the Supreme Court

In recent years, California, Colorado and Maryland passed similar bans on cosmetics containing PFAS that go into effect in 2025. Proposals are under consideration in Washington and Oregon while bills have also been introduced in Illinois, Rhode Island and Georgia.

Sgt. Daniel Perry was working for a ride-sharing company in July 2020 when he turned onto a street and into a large crowd of demonstrators in downtown Austin

Critics on Long Island, a sprawling expanse of communities home to 2.9 million people, are denouncing provisions that would set growth targets, drive denser development near train stations and sometimes let state officials override local zoning decisions

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spat with Walgreens began after the company indicated it would not distribute abortion pills by mail in some conservative states. That pill, mifepristone, when combined with another pill, will end a pregnancy

The decision throws into question access to the nation’s most common method of abortion in a ruling that waved aside decades of scientific approval

The 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church, who have been in Thailand since last September, were arrested last week in the seaside city of Pattaya for overstaying their visas, fined, and then taken to Bangkok, where they were detained in immigration facilities

ProPublica reported that Thomas has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips from the donor nearly every year without reporting them

The court rejected his bid to remain free while he contests his conviction for carrying out a blood-testing hoax with his former boss and lover, Elizabeth Holmes

Sending special investigation teams to crashes means that the agency suspects the Tesla was operating on systems that can handle some aspects of driving.

The proposed rule would prohibit blanket bans, like those that have been approved in at least 20 states. But it would still allow schools to adopt policies that limit transgender students’ participation

On April 8, 2024, the moon will cast its shadow across a stretch of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, plunging millions of people into midday darkness

The agency’s newly released strategic operating plan lays out the specifics of how it will allocate an extra $80 billion in funding, through fiscal year 2031

Many professionals who deal with transgender youth see such care as vital for preservation of mental health and to prevent suicides

County commissions in each of the expelled lawmakers’ districts will now choose temporary replacements until a special election is held

The vote comes a week after Democrat representatives chanted back and forth from the chamber floor with gun-control supporters

The plane had just taken off from Venice Airport when it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico. All passengers lost their lives

Late last year nearly all of California was in drought, including at extreme and exceptional levels, but “atmospheric rivers” has brought back water to the area

The White House publicly released a 12-page summary of the results of the U.S. policies around the ending of the nation’s longest war