A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia and North Carolinaβs refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory.
A former paramedic who injected Elijah McClain with a powerful sedative avoided prison Friday and was sentenced to 14 months in jail with work release and probation.
President Joe Bidenβs administration is indefinitely delaying aΒ long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November.
Tennessee's GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday gave their final approval to legislation criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent.
Abortion continues to be a key part of Democrats' election playbook in North Carolina, which for 2024 will include what abortion-rights advocates call an unprecedented investment in get-out-the-vote efforts.
The South Carolina SenateΒ approved its budgetΒ Wednesday after debating items like requiring school children use the bathrooms of their sex assigned at birth and whether universities can spend state money to move to another athletic conference.
Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that state abortion bans enacted after the overturning ofΒ Roe v. WadeΒ violate federal health care law.
An Arizona grand jury has indicted former PresidentΒ Donald TrumpΒ 's chief of staffΒ Mark Meadows, lawyerΒ Rudy GiulianiΒ and 16 others for their efforts to try to overturn Trumpβs loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency Tuesday, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court.
After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature.
The Supreme Court will consider Wednesday when doctors can provideΒ abortionsΒ during medical emergencies in states with bans enacted after the high courtβs sweeping decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants to provide residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income communities.
North Carolina lawmakers are considering making a dietary supplement known as βgas station heroinβ a controlled substance.
The House passed legislation Saturday that would banΒ TikTokΒ in the United States if the popular social media platform's China-based owner doesnβt sell its stake within a year.
On a weekend reprieve from the courtroom, former PresidentΒ Donald TrumpΒ will campaign Saturday in North Carolina as he juggles legal troubles and his rematch against PresidentΒ Joe Biden.
The most significant case in decades onΒ homelessnessΒ has reachedΒ the Supreme CourtΒ asΒ record numbers of people in AmericaΒ are without a permanent place to live.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration.
Emergency crews rushed away a person on a stretcher after a fire was extinguished outside the Manhattan courthouse where jury selection was taking place Friday in Donald Trump's hush money criminal case.
Jury selection inΒ Donald TrumpΒ βs hush money case encounteredΒ new setbacks ThursdayΒ as two previously sworn-in jurors were excused.
North Carolina's government should collect higher revenues during this fiscal year and next than what is projected in the current two-year state budget.
