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Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues

The new abortion controversy comes less than a year after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright

The Board of Education approved a ban on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades, expanding the law that bans those lesson up to grade 3

The Republican legislative package aims to revive a number of policies either enacted or proposed under then-President Donald Trump that restricted asylum rules

While the Florida governor is yet to enter the 2024 presidential race officially, the former president is aiming to drum up support in the state, securing endorsements from more than one-third of Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation

The string of recent mass shootings has reenergized gun control advocates nationwide, but in Texas, their prospects remain bleak. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has waved aside talk of raising the age to purchase AR-15-like rifles

The event, which is being organized by the Democratic National Committee, is not a fundraiser, but is meant to energize the top party donors for Biden’s campaign

The Republican leader is using the legislation as a strategic move, a starting point to draw President Biden into negotiations that the White House has, so far, been unwilling to have over the debt crisis

The shooting has renewed national debate about gun policies as people react with shock to a 16-year-old being shot first in the head, then in the arm while making a routine errand in a residential neighborhood

The decision is provisional, and the justices will have to issue a new ruling on whether to allow restrictions on mifepristone to take effect while a legal challenge to the medication’s FDA approval continues

Claudia Diaz was found guilty in December by a jury of five of the six counts detailed in a 2020 indictment accusing her of taking millions of dollars in bribes

The lawsuit accuses Memphis Police Director Cerelyn ‘CJ’ Davis of starting a crime-suppression unit called Scorpion to target repeat violent offenders in high-crime areas

A federal watchdog is investigating whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration under chief Anne Milgram improperly awarded millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to hire her past associates

The 21-year-old appeared briefly in Boston federal court on Wednesday as he waived his right to a preliminary hearing. A new date for the hearing to determine whether he should remain jailed while awaiting trial has not been set

District Attorney Mike Segrest said the pair would be charged as adults and that prosecutors would ask a judge to hold them without bail

The gunman, Joseph Eaton, 34, had been released April 14 from the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, where he completed a sentence for aggravated assault

The new board wants to prohibit mask mandates and Covid-19 vaccine requirements in an evolving showdown between the Republican governor and the world’s best-known entertainment company

The package would limit future federal spending increases to 1% a year, a proposal that has almost no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate

This year’s convention came just days after mass shootings at a school in Nashville, Tennessee and at a bank last week in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter of which marked the 15th mass killing of the year in the U.S.

They have been charged with conspiring to covertly sow discord in U.S. society, spread Russian propaganda and interfere illegally in U.S. elections, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday

Maine State Police said the shootings were connected but didn’t immediately discuss a motive or identify the person in custody, a police spokesperson said

The White House said that the directives in the order would be funded out of existing commitments, meaning that the directives’ impact would be limited and they’d carry more of a symbolic weight

The justices are weighing a request from the Biden administration and Danco Laboratories, maker of the drug mifepristone, to keep on hold lower-court rulings restricting its use. The high court is expected to act in the fast-moving case from Texas by late Wednesday

Andrew Lester, 84 years old, shot Ralph Yarl in the head and the arm after the 16-year-old mistakenly rang his doorbell last Thursday

The airline requested on Tuesday that the FAA pause the carrier’s flights. The ground stop was brief, but it led to more than 1,800 delayed flights

The Food and Drug Administration is allowing an extra dose of the omicron-targeted vaccine for anyone 65 and older if it’s been four months since their last shot