Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
There are just two Planned Parenthood clinics in South Carolina, but every year they take hundreds of low-income patients who ...
Kendrick Lamar, Gracie Abrams and Zoe Saldaña earn Webby Award nominations, along with Nutter Butter
Kendrick Lamar, Gracie Abrams, Zoe Saldaña and Nutter Butter are among the nominees for this year’s Webby Awards, recognizing ...
Bankruptcy judge denies J&J settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc
A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has denied Johnson & Johnson’s settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc, ...
Judge in long-running lawsuit declines to block the use of Georgia’s voting system
A federal judge has declined to block the use of Georgia’s electronic voting system in a long-running lawsuit that alleged ...
FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership
The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post amid sweeping cuts at the agency ...
Miami’s Haitian community gathers in prayer as crises escalate in homeland and US
Packed pews, rollicking singing and emotional devotions have marked Lent worship services at Notre Dame d’Haiti, the Catholic ...
A fireball from a burst gas pipeline in Malaysia injures 145 people
A fireball that erupted from a burst gas pipeline soared into the sky outside Malaysia’s largest city and injured 145 people ...
A Jesuit priest prefers prison over a fine to draw attention to climate change
A Jesuit priest says he will rather go to prison than pay a 500-euro ($541) fine for participating in a climate activists’ street blockade in the southern German city of ...
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker launches talking filibuster to protest Trump’s agenda
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker carried an all-night speaking filibuster in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into Tuesday morning. Booker took to the ...
More Republicans want the US to focus on ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds
While most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not ...
Why does the US restrict its presidents to 2 terms? A look at the tradition Trump is questioning
Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. And voters ...
Layoffs begin at the nation’s health agencies
Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people.