Alabama

Michael McDowell’s book was released in 1983 and went unpublished for nearly four decades in the Old Continent. Those responsible for rescuing it discuss the keys to the success of a work that vindicates the act of reading for pleasure

Latino migrant minors, especially if traveling alone, are at greater risk of exploitation in factories across the country

A key point of clarity is how the law applies to ‘classroom instruction,’ as opposed to mere discussion or mention of a topic anywhere on school grounds

The bill was approved by lawmakers scrambling to address a wave of criticism after services were halted at some of the state’s largest fertility clinics. Doctors from at least one clinic said they would resume IVF services on Thursday

Committees in the state Senate and House approved nearly identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the ‘damage or death of an embryo’ during IVF services

Both chambers of the Alabama Legislature advanced legislation that would extend lawsuit protections to fertility clinics

Legislators prepared separate proposals in the House and Senate that would seek to prevent a fertilized egg from being recognized as a human life

Former President Donald Trump called on lawmakers to preserve access to the treatment after Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling led some providers in the state to suspend their in vitro fertilization programs

Doctors and patients have been grappling with shock and fear as they try to determine what they can and can’t do after the ruling by the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court

The ruling by the all-Republican Alabama Supreme Court prompted a wave of concern about the future of IVF treatments in the state and the potential consequences of extreme anti-abortion laws in Republican-controlled states

The bill is part of a wave of legislation in Republican states that seek to regulate which bathrooms transgender people use, which school sports teams they can play on, and to prohibit gender-affirming medical care, particularly for minors

The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic

This method was used for the first time in Alabama last week. For at least two minutes, Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney

Enshrined in the Constitution by the 13th Amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude are banned – except as punishment for a crime

Kenneth Eugene Smith was found guilty of murdering a woman in the 1980s and had survived another attempt at execution by lethal injection in which the vein could not be found

Death row convict Kenneth Eugene Smith, who is scheduled to die on Thursday, survived the first attempt in 2022, when the executioner was unable to raise the vein to administer a lethal injection

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia

The Court of Appeals heard diverging descriptions of the humaneness and potential risks of the proposed method, which no state has previously attempted to use

The storms and frigid temperatures affected everything from air travel to NFL playoff games to Iowa’s presidential caucuses, and were also the cause of several deaths around the country

Inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith’s attorneys said the method is cruel and experimental and are expected to appeal the decision

The weather has already affected campaigning for Iowa’s Jan. 15 precinct caucuses, where the snow is expected to be followed by frigid temperatures

Across the U.S. in 2022, the most recent year that figures are available, there were 96.6 adult men for every 100 adult women

The state that propelled George Wallace, a Democrat and four-term governor, into national politics is now dominated by Republicans loyal to Donald Trump

A second-term governor and wealthy software entrepreneur, was little known nationally when he launched his presidential campaign in June

The Seminoles lost star quarterback Jordan Travis to a season-ending injury two weeks ago. They continued to win, but the committee passed them over

Experts say it remains uncertain if the public’s waning support of the death penalty and its declining use will ultimately result in its abolition