Health Oct 24 Trial over Georgia law restricting abortion to 6 weeks to begin A trial to determine whether Georgia can continue to ban abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy is set to begin in an Atlanta courtroom.
World Oct 23 Iran releases security footage from prison fire, raising more questions Iran on Sunday released security footage that it said came from its notorious Evin Prison the night a fire broke out that killed at least eight inmates, an effort to clarify the government’s narrative amid growing international pressure.
Nation Oct 23 Salman Rushdie lives, but loses use of eye and hand after August stabbing, agent says Salman Rushdie’s agent says the author has lost sight in one eye and the use of a hand as he recovers from an attack from a man who rushed the stage at an August literary event in western New York,…
World Oct 22 Hurricane Roslyn makes landfall in Mexico, misses resorts as it moves inland Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resorts of Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan Sunday morning and quickly moved inland.
World Oct 22 East Iran city of Zahedan, scene of previous deadly crackdown, sees new protests A southeastern city in Iran that was the scene of a bloody crackdown last month awoke to new destruction on Saturday, state TV showed, after tensions erupted the day before.
Politics Oct 21 Read the Jan. 6 committee's full subpoena to Donald Trump The decision by lawmakers to exercise their subpoena power comes a week after the committee made its final case against the former president, who they say “personally orchestrated” a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
World Oct 21 Who is Russia's new hard-line commander in Ukraine with a reputation for brutality? Gen. Sergei Surovikin, the general carrying out President Vladimir Putin's new military strategy in Ukraine, has a reputation for brutality — for bombing civilians in Russia's campaign in Syria. He also played a role in the deaths of three protesters…
Politics Oct 20 Supreme Court Justice Barrett rejects appeal over Biden student debt plan Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has rejected an appeal from a Wisconsin taxpayers group seeking to stop the Biden administration's student debt cancellation program.
Nation Oct 19 Trump answers questions in defamation suit filed by E. Jean Carroll Former President Donald Trump answered questions under oath in a defamation lawsuit filed by a writer who says the Republican raped her in the mid-1990s.
Health Oct 19 Flesh-eating bacteria on the rise in Florida following Hurricane Ian Florida has seen an increase in cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year driven largely by a surge in the county hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. The state Department of Health reports that as of Friday there have been 65 cases…