A new Kansas law and a bill advancing in Florida outline policies backed by abortion opponents that critics see as moves toward giving embryos and fetuses the same rights as the women carrying them
The recent election that determined control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court saw millions of dollars flooding in from billionaires, featured attack ads and drew national political attention
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has called on Congress to reinvestigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy following last month's release of thousands of pages of government documents surrounding the killing
Kansas is shrinking what already was among the nation’s shortest windows for voting by mail
History buffs have uncovered revelations about U.S. espionage in the 1960s in thousands of pages of newly released government records about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Newly released material from documents associated with President John F. Kennedy's assassination show that a key adviser wanted to break up the CIA after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961
Newly released documents related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 are giving curious readers more details Wednesday into Cold War-era covert U.S. operations in other nations but didn’t initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK
Dust storms have proven deadly to motorists across the U.S. for years
Federal judges in two separate lawsuits have refused to order the Trump administration not to destroy U.S. Agency for International Development records
The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D
Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery for more than a century
Civil rights attorneys are suing the Trump administration to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Measures in several state legislatures this year have called for new approaches to weaken the power of judges
Republican state attorneys general have declared their continued support for a landmark civil rights law that protects disabled people’s rights
Kansas has become the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors
U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents
For transgender Americans, passports just became a lot more complicated
Alabama and a small but growing number of other GOP-led states are pushing to enact more laws this year to legally define the two sexes based on observations of genitals at birth
A deadly collision between a passenger airliner and an Army helicopter left Kansas’ largest city grieving
Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships and their Russian coaches, a group of hunters coming home after a guided trip in Kansas and an Ohio college student headed back to campus after attending her grandfather's funeral
Democrats in the Minnesota House who have boycotted daily sessions are using tactics that lawmakers elsewhere have tried dozens of times in seeking to thwart their opponents
Republicans in statehouses are emboldened by GOP electoral successes to push a new wave of bills to restrict transgender rights and gender-affirming care
President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison
Kansas will no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect their gender identities
A longshot Republican candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
You're an American in another land? Prepare to talk about the why and how of Trump 2.0
Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness
