SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers are busy working this week to stitch together the language of a bill that would provide a pathway for Arizona abortion providers who serve Arizona clients in California.

The bill would be another foray by the governor in a series of reproductive health measures that he has signed...Read more

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden could receive a mixed reception when he delivers the commencement address at Morehouse College’s graduation ceremony next month.

Social media was buzzing with calls for students and faculty to stage a walk out in protest of the Democrats' support for Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza after the ...Read more

While former President Donald Trump spends his days in a New York courtroom defending himself from 34 felony level charges, polls show his support among independents waning and his once-clear lead in the 2024 election all but dried up.

According to a Morning Consult poll of nearly 10,000 registered voters released Tuesday and taken in the days ...Read more

President Joe Biden assailed Donald Trump Tuesday over the state of abortion rights in Florida and across the country, and predicted that voters in the Sunshine State would reject newly established restrictions on the procedure come November.

Speaking at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, the president cast the 2024 elections in Florida ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — At his first Tampa Bay area campaign stop of 2024, President Joe Biden hammered Republicans on an issue that his campaign hopes will be at the top of voters’ minds come November: abortion.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections in 2022, Democrats have made the issue a top campaign priority, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Tuesday was threatened with thousands of dollars in fines — and potentially jail time — for denigrating anticipated witnesses and jurors in his hush money case in violation of a gag order.

Before the trial resumed, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan heard arguments from prosecutors requesting that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Tuesday about siding with a Los Angeles couple who claimed the wife's constitutional rights were violated when the government denied a visa to her Salvadoran husband, in part over his tattoos.

While some justices said they agreed that denial of a visa to a U.S. citizen's spouse could in ...Read more

Kansas Republicans appear set to largely fail in their push for major changes to the state’s elections, as the state Supreme Court prepares to issue a potentially landmark voting rights decision.

The GOP-controlled Legislature, which reconvenes Thursday, may successfully block election officials from taking federal dollars to register or help...Read more

The scheme at the heart of the charges against Donald Trump in New York is well-known: To keep allegations of an affair with the adult-film actress Stormy Daniels from becoming public, Trump is accused of agreeing to pay her $130,000, camouflaged as payments to Michael Cohen for legal services. It’s in the camouflaging that Trump is charged ...Read more

Hospitals across the country have long operated under the same federal law that says they must treat and stabilize all patients when they have a medical emergency.

But in states that now ban abortions and have limited or no health exceptions to these restrictions, medical providers face an impossible situation. They can administer a ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Dr. Becky Uranga has always loved working in emergency obstetrics. As an OB-GYN, she and her colleagues at OGA Women’s Health rotate emergency shifts, when Uranga spends 24 hours covering labor and delivery and caring for Treasure Valley patients with urgent medical needs.

For the last several months, those shifts have come ...Read more

NEW YORK — Prosecutors launched the hush money trial of Donald Trump by revealing new details Monday about how they seek to prove the former president corrupted the 2016 election to bury a sex scandal, while a defense lawyer countered the payment was meant only to protect his reputation.

The trial in lower Manhattan, the first of a former ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Joe Biden will deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College’s May 19 graduation ceremony, according to three officials with direct knowledge of the decision.

His remarks in Atlanta come as Biden has been trying to shore up his appeal to young Black voters ahead of a rematch against former President Donald Trump ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump schemed to defraud the 2016 electorate and covered up the plot by lying “over and over and over again” once he won the White House, prosecutors charged Monday during opening statements at the former president’s hush money trial.

The ruse central to the first-ever criminal case against an ex-U.S. president started...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has declined an invitation from the Atlanta Press Club to debate her Democratic opponent as she seeks a second term.

The debate had been scheduled for Monday, April 29.

Willis, who is leading Fulton County’s sweeping election interference case against former President Donald Trump and ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — With the recount for California’s Congressional District 16 race in full swing, preliminary results show Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian leading Assemblyman Evan Low by one vote.

On April 15, a machine recount of the 182,135 votes cast in the March primary race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo began in ...Read more

Though Hollywood movies about courtroom dramas often glamorize the closing arguments given by lawyers, in reality the opening statement is likely the most important single event of a trial.

Such was the case in the hush money trial involving former President Donald Trump and alleged payments to porn star Stormy Daniels when lawyers ...Read more