Having the freedom to choose your own health care provider is something many Americans take for granted. But the Supreme Court is weighing whether people who rely on Medicaid for their health insurance have that right, and if they do – is it enforceable by law?

That’s the key question at the heart of a case, Medina v. Planned ...Read more

Both of Kentucky’s U.S. senators are drawing the intrigue of Washington and ire of President Donald Trump for their opposition to his push on tariffs.

Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell could join Democrats and a few of their Republican colleagues to scuttle Trump’s efforts to place tariffs on goods coming from Canada, a longtime ally ...Read more

The attorney representing two Venezuelan siblings announced Wednesday that one of the brothers will be released from ICE custody under supervision in order to donate his kidney to his ailing younger brother, an asylum seeker in Cicero, Illinois.

The attorney, Peter Meinecke, and The Resurrection Project, a nonprofit advocacy group representing ...Read more

In the middle of the debate on a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender people in Georgia prisons, House Democratic Leader Carolyn Hugley stood, turned down the chamber’s center aisle and led the majority of her caucus out into the hallway.

“This is day 39 — day 39 — we don’t have (an approved state) budget and many...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order for 10% baseline tariffs on imported goods starting Saturday and additional levies on worst-offender countries, but vehicles and their parts will be excluded.

The baseline tariff will go into effect starting 12:01 a.m. Saturday, and the additional duties will begin at ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — Though the case being heard inside was not centered on abortion, the scene outside the Supreme Court Wednesday morning seemed to focus squarely on the procedure.

Those gathering outside the court ahead of and during oral arguments for Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic said they see the case — which will determine ...Read more

Gas stations across Colorado would have to post a sticker warning drivers that their fuel use contributes to climate change under legislation that narrowly passed the state House on Wednesday.

House Bill 1277 squeaked out of the chamber with 33 votes, the minimum needed to clear the chamber; 30 representatives voted no, with some Democrats ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two international students at NC State University have left the country after their visas were terminated by the administration of President Donald Trump, the university announced Tuesday.

The university learned that the visas — which international students are required to obtain in order to study and enroll at U.S. ...Read more

BOSTON — Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden denied prosecutors had any knowledge of ICE’s intent to arrest a defendant in the middle of his trial last Thursday and said ICE’s escalating actions “jeopardize public safety.”

“All of our actions in this case clearly demonstrated our intent to hold Mr. Martell-LeBron ...Read more

DENVER — Transgender Coloradans — particularly children and supportive parents — would gain increased legal protections against discrimination under new legislation that cleared its first hurdle in the state House early Wednesday morning.

The party-line vote to advance House Bill 1312 came after 10 hours of dueling testimony from backers ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams, in his address to New Yorkers on his federal corruption charges being dropped, promoted a highly controversial book about the so-called deep state by Trump FBI Director Kash Patel.

“New Yorkers stop me all the time in trying to find the rationale behind this, and I found it in this book,” the mayor said, ...Read more

JERUSALEM — Israel is “carving up” the Gaza Strip in a bid to pressure Hamas into freeing hostages and will establish a new corridor, parallel to the Egyptian border, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said with the army escalating ground operations in the south.

As mediators try to cobble together another ceasefire and hostage-release ...Read more

SEATTLE — In what appears to be the first full-scale workplace raid in Washington since President Donald Trump took office, immigration officials descended on a roofing company in Bellingham on Wednesday and arrested 37 people.

Those arrested are accused of misrepresenting their immigration status and submitting fraudulent documents to seek ...Read more

After Sen. Cory Booker made history for the longest individual Senate speech delivered in the chamber, he told reporters he was sore and battling dehydration but grateful that he’d lasted as long as he did.

He also shared some of the behind-the-scenes preparations that got him to the record-breaking moment.

“I’m so grateful for all my ...Read more

Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor and action star of the ’90s, has been accused of having sex with trafficked women from Romania, according to multiple media reports.

Van Damme was named in a criminal complaint filed with the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, Romanian newspaper Libertatea reported. It said the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling has reversed a Wake County judge’s order allowing a transgender woman inmate to be transferred to a women’s prison.

The ruling was released Wednesday morning.

In 2023, a Wake County judge ordered that Ashlee Inscoe, a transgender woman, be transferred to a women’s prison.

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PHILADELPHIA — A Temple University student whose visa has been revoked has chosen to self-deport, the university said in a campus message Wednesday.

The university said the visa was “revoked at the discretion of the United States Secretary of State,” but did not release details about the student or the student’s home country, why the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Supreme Court justices appeared open Wednesday to allowing South Carolina to deny federal funding for Planned Parenthood, during oral arguments in a dispute over the state disqualifying the health care provider from Medicaid for providing abortions.

But key justices also aired concerns that such a decision would leave no way...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs in a Rose Garden speech Wednesday that was closely watched by world leaders anticipating convulsions in global markets.

In an effort to bring manufacturing back to the United States, Trump said he would slap what he called “reciprocal tariffs” on countries that currently tax U...Read more