Walgreens, the nation's second-largest pharmacy chain, has found itself embroiled in the abortion battle after confirming that they will not dispense abortion pills in certain states, even in some where it's still legal to do so. The move has churned up a storm of political outrage in Congress and among Democratic state leaders, who said...

In navigating 5G’s tangle of convenience, security risk and geopolitical competition, two watchwords should guide U.S. policy.

There’s a water contradiction in the West with serious long-term water scarcity in low reservoirs and depleting groundwater tables, while California is in the middle of an extremely wet and snowy winter. As water levels in dangerously depleted Lake Mead and Lake Powell drop to record lows, California has experienced one of the wettest winters...

Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Friday to allow congressional employees who can legally own firearms to carry them to and from House buildings for protection and store them in the Capitol while at work. A release from Steube’s office states that the bill would require Capitol Police to install and operate storage lockers...

Those dancing videos may seem harmless to you, but they could be deadly for Uyghurs.

The kidnapping of four American health care tourists in Mexico, which resulted in two of their deaths, has rattled an already shaky political detente across the Rio Grande, setting off tit-for-tat accusations between GOP hawks in Congress and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The incident has left U.S.-Mexico relations at a quarter-century nadir, with...

A major breakthrough in international diplomacy was announced Friday when Saudi Arabia and Iran revealed that they had agreed to resume normalized relations in a deal brokered by China. The countries announced the deal in a joint statement, saying Iran and Saudi Arabia, the two largest Middle Eastern nations by area, will resume diplomatic relations...

The Mississippi legislation that critics have slammed as a “Jim Crow” bill has taken a turn after the state Senate passed it Tuesday with a couple of amendments that would both expand its scope and maintain a level of city government jurisdiction over Jackson. City leaders and Democrats serving in the state legislature have fumed...

Dealing with the climate crisis, like fighting COVID, calls for strengthening intellectual property rights, not waiving them.

Oregon lawmakers are deciding whether to make the state the second in the nation to require climate change lessons for K-12 public school students.