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Judge temporarily blocks Wyoming abortion ban, allowing abortions to resume
Jason Marz/Getty Images(CHEYENNE, Wyo.) -- A Wyoming judge temporarily blocked a state abortion ban, prohibiting the state and its employees from enforcing the ban. The temporary restraining order wil...
Mar 23, 2023
House panel to focus not on Mexico border -- but rising immigration at sea
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The fraught politics of immigration have largely focused on the land border between the U.S. and Mexico, but on Thursday afternoon a panel of l...
Mar 23, 2023
White House COVID team to wind down as public health emergency expires in May: Officials
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House COVID-19 team will wind down as the country moves out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, multiple administration officials confir...
Mar 23, 2023
Supreme Court hears arguments on whiskey bottles, dog toys, pornography and poop
U.S. Supreme Court(WASHINGTON) -- A Supreme Court debate Wednesday over parody and popular commercial brands was dominated by talk of whiskey bottles, dog toys, pornography and poop. For nearly t...
Mar 22, 2023
DeSantis downplays Trump's nickname, 'just as long as you also call me a winner'
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis likened former President Donald Trump's jabs against him to so much "background noise," according to excerpts from an upcoming inte...
Mar 22, 2023
East Palestine mother to Senate: 'My seven-year-old has asked me if he is going to die'
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Some East Palestine, Ohio, residents are still grappling with the aftershock of last month's train derailment, with one mother offering compelling testimon...
Mar 22, 2023
Florida's so-called 'Don't Say Gay' policy could be expanded into high school
Scott Olson/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- A proposed Florida Board of Education rule could expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity. &ld...
Mar 22, 2023
Kansas House of Representatives passes bill requiring care for infants 'born alive' after abortion
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images(TOPEKA, Kan.) -- Months after Kansas voters decided to uphold protections for abortion rights, the state's House of Representatives approved a bill based on the dis...
Mar 22, 2023
Patients, health care providers face shortages of critical drugs, Senate report finds
Tetra Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Patients and medical providers who rely on pharmaceutical medications to treat everything from asthma to ADHD to cancer may have had a harder time finding thos...
Mar 22, 2023
Supreme Court to hear case between Jack Daniel's and dog toy maker
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- It's a brand battle in the Supreme Court this week as whiskey maker Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. takes on a dog toy manufacturer in a case over free speech ...
Mar 22, 2023
