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Two new laws restricting transgender Missourians’ access to gender-affirming health care and school sports are now in effect.
Medicaid expansion won’t begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1 as Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration had wanted because the state budget still has yet to be enacted.
A Michigan woman whose three young sons drowned last year after her SUV crashed into an ice-covered pond has pleaded no contest to several charges in connection with the crash.
A federal jury in San Francisco has found a Michigan man guilty of failing to deliver almost $3.5 million worth of N95 masks to thousands of customers as the COVID-19 pandemic began.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has appointed five people to the board of a private foundation that will distribute most of the state’s $1 billion-plus in opioid lawsuit settlements.
California’s attorney general has sued a Southern California school district over its new policy that requires schools to notify parents if their children change their gender identification or pronouns.
Civil rights advocates have filed a lawsuit challenging an Indiana law that prohibits gender-affirming surgery for inmates. Republican Gov.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on lawmakers to pass legislation proactively protecting key provisions in the Affordable Care Act during a speech Wednesday where she’ll outline her legislative priorities for the second half of the year.
Chinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment.
China will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test result for incoming travelers, a milestone in its reopening to the rest of the world after an isolation that began with the country’s borders closing in 2020.
State and federal agencies are scrambling to find measures to combat what experts call one of the harshest and most neglected effects of climate change in the U.S.: rising heat deaths and injuries of people who work in triple-digit temperatures.
Los Angeles Angels general manager Perry Minasian says Shohei Ohtani declined imaging after he left an Aug. 3 start against Seattle after four innings and 59 pitches because of cramping in his pitching hand and fingers.
An oral surgeon has been convicted of murdering his girlfriend who overdosed on anesthetic drugs that he administered at his Maryland home.
When classes resume for kids in eight states, they won’t have to worry about where their next meals will be coming from because they’ll be free.
Grand Canyon National Park officials are warning that E. coli bacteria has been detected in the water supply close to Phantom Ranch, the only lodging at the bottom of the canyon.
Bronny James went into cardiac arrest during a basketball workout at the University of Southern California last month because of a congenital heart defect.
Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.
Yale University settles lawsuit alleging it pressured students with mental health issues to withdraw
Yale University is settling a federal lawsuit that said the Ivy League school discriminated against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring them to withdraw.
President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before.
A Texas judge has ruled against the state’s upcoming ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors, the latest move in a legal fight over transgender rights.
