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Broadcast media equipment is set up in front of the Supreme Court building on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Washington.

Despite Supreme Court ruling, the future of emergency abortions is still unclear for US women

Broadcast media equipment is set up in front of the Supreme Court building on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Washington.

June 28, 2024, 8:31am Nation & World

The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions. Read story

Candidates for the 17th Legislative District &mdash; Republican David Stuebe, left, and Democrat Terri Niles &mdash; present their positions during a League of Women Voters candidate forum at the Vancouver Community Library. Republican candidate Hannah Joy did not participate.

Three vie to fill 17th Legislative District seat being vacated by Rep. Paul Harris

Candidates for the 17th Legislative District &mdash; Republican David Stuebe, left, and Democrat Terri Niles &mdash; present their positions during a League of Women Voters candidate forum at the Vancouver Community Library. Republican candidate Hannah Joy did not participate.

June 28, 2024, 6:02am Clark County News

In the 17th Legislative District, Rep. Paul Harris is running to succeed Sen. Lynda Wilson, a fellow Republican who is retiring. That leaves his House Position 2 seat open. Read story

FILE - A person rides a bicycle on a smokey day due to wildfires in Fort McMurray, Canada, Sep. 2, 2023. Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, new research found. (AP Photo/Victor R.

Canada’s 2023 wildfires burned huge chunks of forest, spewing far more heat-trapping gas than planes

FILE - A person rides a bicycle on a smokey day due to wildfires in Fort McMurray, Canada, Sep. 2, 2023. Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, new research found. (AP Photo/Victor R.

June 27, 2024, 5:26pm Latest News

Catastrophic Canadian warming-fueled wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels, setting ablaze an area of forest larger than West Virginia, new research found. Read story

FILE - Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.The Justice Department says its concerned that releasing audio of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents could lead to deepfakes that trick Americans.

Republicans seek charges against Biden’s ghostwriter

FILE - Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Hur listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, March 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.The Justice Department says its concerned that releasing audio of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s interview with a special counsel about his handling of classified documents could lead to deepfakes that trick Americans.

June 27, 2024, 5:05pm Nation & World

House Republicans advanced a resolution Thursday that would hold President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records related to the special counsel investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Read story

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, June 22, 2024, at Temple University in Philadelphia. The federal judge presiding over Trump&#039;s classified documents prosecution is hearing arguments Monday, June 24, on whether to bar him from public comments that prosecutors say could endanger the lives of FBI agents working on the case. Special counsel Jack Smith&#039;s team says the restrictions are necessary in light of Trump&#039;s false comments that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents were out to kill him and his family.

Judge in Trump classified documents case grants his request for one hearing, denies bid for another

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally, June 22, 2024, at Temple University in Philadelphia. The federal judge presiding over Trump&#039;s classified documents prosecution is hearing arguments Monday, June 24, on whether to bar him from public comments that prosecutors say could endanger the lives of FBI agents working on the case. Special counsel Jack Smith&#039;s team says the restrictions are necessary in light of Trump&#039;s false comments that the FBI agents who searched his Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents were out to kill him and his family.

June 27, 2024, 11:49am Politics

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump granted a defense request for a hearing on whether prosecutors improperly breached attorney-client privilege when they obtained crucial evidence from one of Trump's ex-lawyers. Read story

FILE - Jen Trejo holds a photo of her son Christopher as she is comforted outside the Supreme Court where signs in the shape of grave headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 27, 2024, rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic.

What’s left for the Supreme Court to decide? 8 cases remain and here are the major ones

FILE - Jen Trejo holds a photo of her son Christopher as she is comforted outside the Supreme Court where signs in the shape of grave headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday, June 27, 2024, rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic.

June 27, 2024, 11:49am Latest News

The Supreme Court has a dozen cases still undecided, including ones that could reshape the law on everything from abortion to social media. The justices are also still weighing whether former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution in the election interference case against him, roughly two months after… Read story

Jamie Richmond, Boise, dressed as a pregnant Statue of Liberty during a rally at the Idaho Capitol in Boise, Idaho, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Hundreds gathered to support women and health care workers caught in the legal gray areas of Idaho&rsquo;s strict abortion legislation.

Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho for now, Bloomberg report says

Jamie Richmond, Boise, dressed as a pregnant Statue of Liberty during a rally at the Idaho Capitol in Boise, Idaho, on Sunday, April 21, 2024. Hundreds gathered to support women and health care workers caught in the legal gray areas of Idaho&rsquo;s strict abortion legislation.

June 26, 2024, 1:50pm Latest News

The Supreme Court appears poised to allow emergency abortions in Idaho when a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk, as a legal case plays out, according to Bloomberg News, which said a copy of the opinion was briefly posted Wednesday on the court’s website. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol and local officials, as he looks over the southern border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Rio Grande. Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. and then offered potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country. The two actions in tandem gives the president a chance to address one of the biggest vulnerabilities for his reelection campaign.

Homeland Security says border arrests fall more than 40% since Biden’s halt to asylum processing

FILE - President Joe Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol and local officials, as he looks over the southern border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Rio Grande. Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. and then offered potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country. The two actions in tandem gives the president a chance to address one of the biggest vulnerabilities for his reelection campaign.

June 26, 2024, 11:28am Politics

Arrests for illegal border crossings have dropped more than 40% during the three weeks that asylum processing has been suspended, the Homeland Security Department said Wednesday. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, June 4, 2024.

Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room at the White House in Washington, June 4, 2024.

June 26, 2024, 8:35am Politics

President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. Read story

Victims are emotional during a news conference with survivors of abused and neglected youth at residential treatment facilities (RTFs) and advocates, on the need for Congress to act to protect children and reform RTFs, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

States fail to track abuses in foster care facilities housing thousands of children, US says

Victims are emotional during a news conference with survivors of abused and neglected youth at residential treatment facilities (RTFs) and advocates, on the need for Congress to act to protect children and reform RTFs, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

June 26, 2024, 8:32am Health

 Many states are failing to track how frequently children in foster care facilities are abused, sexually assaulted or improperly restrained, leaving them vulnerable to mistreatment, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in a report Wednesday. Read story