Two years after a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming courts, legislatures and political campaigns.
Larry Demeritte has run horses on Kentucky Derby day in the past, just never in the big race. The 74-year-old trainer says it was all practice for Saturday, when he’ll saddle West Saratoga in the Derby. The gray colt cost $11,000 and is the pride of Demeritte’s 11-horse stable in Lexington, …
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Testimony turns tense as Donald Trump’s criminal trial marks its 10th day, with an explosive recording and porn actor and Playboy model Stormy Daniel’s lawyer on the stand.
Jill Biden has honored her fellow educators by hosting the 2024 national and state teachers of the year at a swanky White House dinner to recognize their commitment to their students and to excellence in the classroom. The first lady said Thursday night that teaching isn't just a job, it's a…
President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina. Biden said he was praying for loved ones and others left behind after the shooting. He said the U.S. has to get officers “the resources they need to do t…
President Joe Biden has met privately with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job in Charlotte, North Carolina. Biden said he was praying for loved ones and others left behind after the shooting. He said the U.S. has to get officers “the resources they need to do their jobs, and "weapons of war” must be kept out of the wrong hands. The visit came just a week after he sat down with the grieving relatives of two cops killed in upstate New York.
Everyone knows Warren Buffett’s successor won’t be able to match the legendary investor. But Berkshire Hathaway’s board remains confident Greg Abel is the right guy to one day lead the conglomerate into the future. Longtime Berkshire board member Ron Olson told investors gathered Thursday at a conference two days ahead of Berkshire’s annual shareholders meeting that Abel understands all the fundamental principles that Buffett used to build Berkshire. Olson says he’s confident business owners will still be willing to sell their companies to Berkshire once the Canadian utility executive takes over after the 93-year-old Buffett is gone. And Olson doesn’t think last year’s public legal fight over the price of the Pilot truck stop chain will be a deterrent to future deals either.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says her state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools. Sanders on Thursday signed an executive order stating that Arkansas will continue to enforce restrictions on which bathrooms and pronouns transgender students can use. The state is the latest to challenge and defy the new Title IX regulation that could invalidate such restrictions. The regulations finalized last month spell out that Title IX bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The order follows moves in recent years by Arkansas to restrict the rights of transgender youth.
For the past 52 years, the United Methodist Church had officially declared “the practice of homosexuality ... incompatible with Christian teaching.” But that has ended now that church delegates removed that phrase from their official social teachings at their legislative General Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. The action comes a day after delegates removed a ban on LGBTQ clergy. The delegates have replaced the denomination's non-binding Social Principles with a new document. It defines marriage as a covenant between “two people of faith,” without limiting it to a man and a woman. The progressive shift follows the departure of a quarter of U.S. congregations in the United Methodist Church amid disputes over LGBTQ issues.
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The North Carolina Senate has approved legislation to set aside roughly $500 million more for now for programs that provide taxpayer money to help K-12 students attend private schools. The majority-Republican Senate voted Thursday along party lines to spend the money, almost all of which will cover a surge in demand for Opportunity Scholarship grants since income caps to receive them were eliminated. The demand has resulted in a waiting list of nearly 55,000 students. The measure could go to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper next week if the House votes to affirm the legislation. Cooper opposes these vouchers, but Republicans hold narrow veto-proof majorities.
Federal prosecutors say a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel has been arrested on charges that he illegally imported firearms parts from foreign countries including Russia and dealt weapons without a license. The U.S. attorney's office in Nashville says 40-year-old Frank Ross Talbert has been indicted on 21 charges including importing defense articles without a license and smuggling firearms parts into the U.S. Talbert is a lieutenant colonel with U.S. Army Explosives Ordinance Disposal at Fort Campbell. He was arrested Thursday. Talbert pleaded not guilty during a Thursday hearing in federal court in Nashville. Authorities say the imported parts came from Russia, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Pro-Palestine protest organizers on Thursday afternoon gathered at VCU and called for university President Michael Rao’s resignation or removal on the heels of Monday’s violent showdown between police and demonstrators.
Topsøe detailed plans for the plant, which will employ 150, at a news conference at its Denmark headquarters with Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who was in the country this week.
Federal, state and local authorities raided the duplex where she was living. The news was heralded as a "big drug bust." The prosecutor just dropped the case.
“Waffle House changed my life… I was going to be a lawyer and then I walked out of the LSAT to go get breakfast. I never looked back,” it read.
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The widow of a North Carolina man shot and killed by Sullivan County deputies last spring has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Greeneville, Tennessee.
A city man is in custody after a shooting sent one woman to a local hospital.
A Scott County, Virginia, firefighter died over the weekend while battling a wildfire.
A judge may soon decide whether to try a case against a Blountville, Tennessee, woman charged in the death of her child in Sullivan County or elsewhere.
Mayor Levar Stoney said in an interview: "It would have been a grueling, negative race, and that is not what you want to ensure we elect a Democrat as governor."
A total of 457 acres of riverfront mountains in Russell County have been added to Clinch River State Park, which will provide new public access to the river for outdoor recreation.
BRISTOL, Va. – Only one person spoke Tuesday during a series of three public hearings related to the city’s proposed 2024-25 operating budget – a plan that will see real estate taxes remain the same and the trash rate decrease.
About a week after legislators brushed off his amendments to bills ensuring the right to contraception and requiring insurance coverage, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he’s still thinking about what do.