Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during

Oprah Winfrey has been hospitalized, according to her best friend and journalist Gayle King, who overshared the graphic details about what’s ailing the media mogul. King made the revelation Tuesday on “CBS Mornings” while explaining Winfrey’s absence from the news program,

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday affirmed that he would not step down if his party suffers in the recently-called snap elections for France’s parliament. The chance of that happening “never existed,” Macron told journalists, calling the suggestion “absurd” and saying

Chicago aldermen are set to consider the city’s largest police misconduct settlement ever: a $50 million deal for four men imprisoned after detectives allegedly forced their false confessions as teens. The hefty sum would go to four men who were originally

James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the teacher of the civil rights movement, training hundreds of youthful protesters in nonviolent tactics that made the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins a model for fighting racial inequality in the 1960s, has

Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said Monday that he would continue consideration of some pretrial motions in the Fulton County election interference case even as an appeals court mulls whether to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the prosecution. Last week, the Georgia

South Korea’s military said it fired warning shots after several North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border on Sunday, in a development that could further stoke tensions on the peninsula. Several of the North Korean soldiers were armed but many had

A whistleblower who alleges officials orchestrated lies to victims of rapes and sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy has gone public on the eve of the Coast Guard commandant’s appearance before a U.S. Senate panel looking into the service’s cover-up of an internal review of

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Beijing and Washington have accused each other of propelling a new nuclear arms build-up, with an American official on Friday suggesting a possible increase in the U.S.

(Getty Images) Policy, politics and progressive commentary State funding for private attorneys and expert witnesses who take on post-conviction work, including appeals for death row inmates, is depleted, according to officials, leaving legal professionals struggling to keep their employees and families

Before Audrey Elizabeth Hale claimed the lives of three 9-year-old children and three adults in her devastating March 27, 2023 attack at the Covenant School, she wrote in a journal recovered by police of her desire to “inflict pain” and share

Share This Story State auditors could confirm eligibility for only 60% of Minnesotans who participated in a $500 million frontline worker bonus program, a new report says. The 52-page report, issued by the Office of the Legislative Auditor, detailed the results