Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said any doctor who performs an abortion in Texas will be prosecuted, even if a woman is granted a court exception to the state’s strict abortion ban. An Austin judge gave a woman an exception to state law on Thursday, allowing her to receive abortion care due to her fetus...
Vice President Harris and her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, celebrated the start of the Hanukkah holiday on Thursday amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. “Tonight, we proudly light our menorahs and let them shine out our front windows as a reminder that even in darkness, we can bring forth the light,” Emhoff wrote in a...
New York lawmakers condemned the firing of a shotgun outside of the Temple Israel synagogue in Albany, New York on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Nobody was injured in the shooting, which Albany Police and the FBI are investigating as a potential hate crime, The Times Union reported. Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins said a witness...
A Democratic candidate vying to run for former Rep. George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) seat ended her campaign Thursday after the New York Democratic Party chose former Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) for a special election to be held in February. Anna Kaplan, a former state senator, then endorsed Suozzi for the special election. “We need to start...
A group of six Pennsylvania Republicans called on the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to fire its president, Liz Magill, following backlash against comments she made at a House committee hearing Tuesday. At the hearing about antisemitism on college campuses, Magill and other college leaders controversially said that it would depend on context whether comments calling...
A lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday claimed that the State Department was funding technology that could “render disfavored press outlets unprofitable.”