The indictment, followed by a request to extradite the doctor from California, is an escalation of Louisiana’s efforts to counter states that support providing abortions.
Conservative leaders opposed to abortion have sought various ways to limit access to the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol, which Louisiana classified as dangerous controlled substances in 2024.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City returned to the State Capitol for the first time since taking office, underscoring the shifting political winds since his victory.
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.
Officials said the body’s leadership could be announced as soon as Wednesday, but U.S. efforts to shape postwar Gaza by disarming Hamas have faced hurdles.
In her address on Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York focused on affordability, while pushing for nuclear power and new restrictions on religious protests.
Even as Gov. Kathy Hochul embraced portions of the agenda of New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, she also underscored the limits of their partnership.
Amid a near-total communications blackout, witness footage trickling out of Iran paints a picture of how the country’s largest uprising in decades spread — and turned deadly.
The testimony, part of the derailed Georgia election interference case, makes clear how dismissive some senior Republicans were of claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Transcripts of secret grand jury testimony indicate that President Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election exasperated and alarmed a number of senior Republicans.
Becky Pepper-Jackson, who sued to join her middle school’s girls’ cross-country team when she was 11, asserted that her state’s statute violates Title IX.
Senator John Kennedy, a garrulous rank-and-file Republican from Louisiana, has struck a nerve with a new book that provides an insider account of Congress and its dysfunction.
Global economic leaders have expressed concern about the credibility of the world’s most important economic institution after the Justice Department’s announcement of an investigation into the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome H. Powell.
To assuage cost-weary voters and combat inflation, the president has resorted to a mix of threats and punishments, targeting companies and policymakers alike.
There is seemingly no lever that President Trump appears unwilling to pull, as he looks to ease the economic strains on voters now anxious about the state of the country.
In a nearly 180-page filing, lawyers for Rex Heuermann, charged in seven killings, argued that the prosecution had improperly seized their client’s pizza crusts and portrayed him as porn-obsessed.
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.
Workers at the popular New York City chain Breads Bakery, who are trying to unionize, included the demand in a list alongside higher wages and special overtime pay.
A group called the Breaking Breads Union is seeking to unionize at Breads Bakery, which is known for its chocolate babka. The bakery’s owners have roots in Israel.
Prosecutors said two former employees of Mr. Iglesias, a renowned Spanish singer, had accused him of abuse. His representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
The temporary protections, which are meant to help migrants who cannot safely return to their countries, are expected to expire for Somalis on March 17.
Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland, left, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark held a joint news conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday.
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