Tennessee lawmakers OK bill penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care The bill mirrors almost the same language from a so-called “anti-abortion trafficking” proposal Tennessee Republican lawmakers approved just a day prior. In that version, supporters are hoping to stop ... 04/25/2024 - 3:44 pm | View Link
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to let Arizona doctors provide abortions in California California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are announcing legislation Wednesday aimed at helping Arizonans access abortions after the Arizona Supreme Court allowed a near total-ban to move forwa ... 04/24/2024 - 6:50 am | View Link
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help Arizonans get abortions in California. Here's what to know With Arizona's 1864 abortion ban going into effect, residents will go out of state to receive care in neighboring California. 04/23/2024 - 2:02 am | View Link
California proposes law to allow Arizona doctors to perform abortions as ban proceeds the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a near-total abortion ban could take effect. California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state is working on emergency legislation that would allow doctors from Arizona ... 04/22/2024 - 2:14 pm | View Link
Evers vetoes a Republican bill that would have allowed teens to work without parental consent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a Republican bill that would have allowed 14- and 15-year-olds in Wisconsin to work without getting consent from their parents or a state permit. 04/8/2024 - 4:57 am | View Link
The first criminal trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to hush-money payments allegedly made in 2016 to cover up an affair he had with adult film star Stormy Daniels. Here’s the latest—the key updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.
Threats of jail time.
On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that the Drug Enforcement Administration is proposing that cannabis be reclassified from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, a classification that comes with steep penalties, to the less severe Schedule III, for drugs with significant medical use. If the White House Office of Management and Budget approves the decision, the DEA would be able to offer its proposal for public comment.
Eight years ago, in his 2016 run for president, Donald Trump said that women who have abortions should be criminally charged. “There has to be some form of punishment,” Trump said at the time. The comment caused a firestorm and his campaign walked it back within hours. It marked one of the few times that Trump recanted.
Early Tuesday morning, Columbia student protesters took over a building on campus, pledging not to leave until their demands—for the university to divest from Israel, financial transparency from Columbia’s endowment, and amnesty for pro-Palestinian protesters—are met.
The group of “autonomous protesters” took over Hamilton Hall, an academic building on the Morningside Heights campus, shortly after midnight, according to a media advisory from Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group that organized the Gaza Solidarity Encampment over the past few weeks.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial fined the former president $9,000 on Tuesday for violating a gag order—and he warned Trump that any further violations might result in jail time.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records for his role in a 2016 scheme to cover up an alleged extra-marital affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.