Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas statute that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and that can be enforced through lawsuits to avoid constitutional court challenges.
As an increasing number of US states move to greatly restrict access to abortion, California senators have introduced a bill that would provide a fund of taxpayer money for women who live outside the state to have abortions, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Georgia and Wisconsin are advancing probes into accusations of widespread illegal ballot harvesting in the 2020 presidential election, digging deeper into voter fraud claims more than a year after President Biden took office.
FBI Director Christopher Wray issued a stark warning Tuesday that nation-state or profit-driven hackers could “shut down” parts of U.S. society as he implored private business to do more to report attacks and to guard against them.
The US central bank must be swift in bringing “much too high” inflation to heel, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Monday, adding that the bank could “aggressively” raise interest rates if necessary.
Republicans in the Senate will introduce legislation later Monday that would prohibit the federal government from entering into contracts with individuals who have used previous access to leak proprietary information.
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that Americans will likely need to get a COVID vaccine every year, and for those who are vulnerable, they should think about getting it every six months.
Former President Donald Trump’s Save America PAC political action committee has more cash on hand than the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee combined, Federal Election Commission filings show.
One of the oldest Supreme Court justices has been hospitalized since March 18, the court announced on Sunday.
A state judge in Arkansas nixed four election laws, ruling on Friday that the laws put an undue burden on voters.
Moderna Inc sought emergency use authorization with U.S. health regulators for a second COVID-19 booster shot late Thursday, as a surge in cases in some parts of the world fuels fears of another wave of the pandemic.
With U.S. media covering discrimination extensively, Americans may be forgiven for “rarely” getting it right when estimating demographic groups, a survey suggests.
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it would raise its interest rate target by a quarter percentage point in an effort to curb soaring inflation, a major step away from its pandemic-era emergency policies.
More than 76,000 Afghan nationals brought to the United States following President Joe Biden’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan may apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to shield them from deportation, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Wednesday, despite the fact that a watchdog report last month found some refugees posed serious security risks.
Twenty-one states filed a brief in support of South Carolina’s call for a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals review of the state’s Fetal Heartbeat Act.
The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly continues to say there is no way to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The Colorado House of Representatives has passed a bill that would permit abortion through the whole nine months of pregnancy, for any reason including on grounds of sex, race, or disability, Christian Headlines (CH) reports. Titled the Reproductive Health Quality Act (HB 1279), the bill passed on Tuesday by 40-24.
A Republican-backed resolution to end the federal mask mandate on public transportation cleared the Senate on Tuesday.
Producer prices increased a blistering 10% for the year ending in February, according to a report Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest on record.
After Ohio became on Monday the 23rd state to have constitutional carry for firearms signed into law, more than half of all U.S. states have now either enacted or are in the process of adopting constitutional carry.