Category: Nation & World

The Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion is causing anxiety for people in same-sex marriages, particularly those with children.

In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

Airbnb has permanently banned parties and events at all short-term rentals listed on its site.

Fifty-one people died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat.

The Supreme Court said Monday that a high school football coach who knelt and prayed on the field after games was protected by the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years.

In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public.

A powerful earthquake struck a rural, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the country’s deadliest quakes in decades.

Police had enough officers and firepower on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building.

A year after President Joe Biden signed legislation making June 19 the nation’s 12th federal holiday, people across the U.S. gathered at events filled with music, food and fireworks.

After an initial burst of action, the movement to have Juneteenth recognized as an official holiday in the states has largely stalled.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point .

Elon Musk will address Twitter employees Thursday for the first time since the billionaire and Tesla CEO offered $44 billion to buy the social media platform.