Politics

Abortion providers say they are trying to assure patients that nothing has changed, at least for the moment. And even if the ruling by a U.S. District Court judge in Texas stands, doctors are devising backup plans.

A bill has been proposed that might help missing Black children and women get a similar amount of attention as white people who disappear.

One of the two Black Democrats who were expelled last week from the GOP-led Tennessee House has been reinstated.

The 2024 Democratic National Convention will be held in Chicago.

The Justice Department is appealing a Texas court ruling that would halt approval of a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the U.S.

A federal judge wants to know if ex-President Donald Trump plans to attend a New York trial this month resulting from a columnist’s claims that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.

The former commander-in-chief has claimed the 34 felony charges filed against him last week are part of a plot to interfere with the 2024 presidential election.

A metro council vote would send Rep. Justin Jones back after essentially a long weekend. Expelled Memphis Rep. Justin Pearson, meanwhile, could be reappointed at a Wednesday meeting of the Shelby County Commission.

The GOP supermajority expelled the two lawmakers, leaving about 140,000 voters in primarily Black districts with no representation in the House.

The Washington state Senate on Saturday approved an assault-weapons ban, a measure long sought by gun-control advocates.

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was barricaded in a room at San Francisco State University Thursday night after she was physically assaulted following a speech to students about saving women's sports at a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus.

Judge halts FDA approval of abortion pill mifepristone but delays order to give time to feds to appeal.

Thomas has accepted luxury trips from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow nearly every year for more than two decades.

A young school board member in Boise, Idaho unleashed a profane social media attack on the governor, saying he will be urinating on his final resting place after he dies.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California was the site of the rare high-level, bipartisan meeting Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Wednesday for talks with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen.

The bill requires the state’s medical board to revoke the licenses of doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors, even though professionals who deal with transgender youth see such care as vital to helping their mental health and preventing suicides.

Becky Pepper-Jackson is in the middle of the outdoor track season.

A new rule proposed by the Biden administration would prevent schools and colleges from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes, but it would allow certain exceptions to promote fairness or reduce injuries.