Sixty-two percent of Americans say it’s the federal government’s responsibility to ensure everyone has health care coverage, a survey from Gallup found. The figure is the highest it’s been in more than a decade. It slipped to its low of 42 percent in 2013, during the difficult rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in a case involving a group of Wisconsin parents who sued their children’s school district over a policy meant to support transgender students, letting two lower court rulings dismissing the case stand. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices denied the parents’ request to review the lower...
President Biden said Sunday the United States believes Austin Tice is still alive, echoing comments from the family of the journalist who disappeared 12 years ago in Syria. "We believe he's alive. We think we can get him back, but we have no direct evidence of that yet," Biden told reporters after speaking about the...
A Maryland judge has paused a sexual abuse lawsuit against President-elect Trump's Education secretary nominee, Linda McMahon, as another case in the state could affect its outcome. A federal judge concluded another case before the Maryland Supreme Court that deals with the constitutionality of a state law that took away the statute of limitations...
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a defendant’s Second Amendment challenge to Hawaii laws that make it a crime to carry handguns or ammunition in public without a license. In written statements, three of the court’s conservatives said the current posture of the case wasn’t appropriate for the Supreme Court’s intervention, even...
The Pentagon unveiled a new counter-drone strategy after a spate of incursions near U.S. bases prompted concerns over a lack of an action plan for the increasing threat of unmanned aerial vehicles.
President-elect Trump, in a major interview, pinpoints the key reason why he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House race was Americans' frustrations with high grocery prices