Law

Independence Hall in Philadelphia, May 4, 2022. The National Park Service plans to install gas-fired boilers at Independence National Historical Park, despite a 2007 law mandating new and remodeled federal buildings be 100% free of fossil fuels by 2030.

A 15-year-old law would end fossil fuels in federal buildings, but it's on hold

6:44am April 16, 2023

by Jeff Brady

A 2007 law could help the country meet its climate change goals by barring fossil fuels from new and remodeled federal buildings. But the law has been on hold and gas utilities want to repeal it.

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The New York Times resumed publication of its series of articles based on the secret Pentagon Papers in its July 1, 1971 edition, after it was given the green light by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Politics & Government

The latest saga of revealed U.S. secrets stirs memories of past legendary leaks

8:35am April 15, 2023

by Ron Elving

Call them whistleblowers or traitors, call their actions conscientious or unconscionable, the people who decide on their own to share classified material have often altered the course of events.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court briefly puts on hold lower court's limits on abortion drug mifepristone

8:21pm April 14, 2023

by Ximena Bustillo

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has placed a hold on a lower court ruling that restricts access to the abortion drug mifepristone until Wednesday night.

A sketch depicts Madison County prosecutor Rob Wood (from left), Lori Vallow Daybell and defense attorney Jim Archibald during opening statements of Vallow Daybell's murder trial in Boise, Idaho, on Monday.

National

Lori Vallow Daybell's 'zombie' murder trial has brought a string of notable moments

6:08pm April 14, 2023

by Bill Chappell

The jury has heard testimony from Vallow Daybell's close friend, along with relatives and investigators, in the long-awaited "zombie" murder trial.

Supreme Court issues a temporary stay in the Texas mifepristone case

5:10pm April 14, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court has issued an administrative stay in a Texas case involving limited access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

Security guards stand outside the entrance to the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday. Jack Teixeira, 21, an employee of the U.S. Air Force National Guard, appeared at the federal court on Friday,

Suspected leaker of secret Pentagon documents arraigned in Massachusetts

3:54pm April 14, 2023

by Deepa Shivaram

A federal judge in Boston has ordered Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, to remain in custody until his detention hearing next week.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the Justice Department charged several leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and several of its facilitators across the world.

U.S. charges El Chapo's sons and other Sinaloa cartel members in fentanyl trafficking

3:17pm April 14, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

Members of the Mexican cartel are facing several charges involving fentanyl trafficking, weapons and money laundering in New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C.

$A Dominion Voting logo appears on a voting machine as it is tested while Clark County Election Department workers set up a polling place in Las Vegas last year.$

Politics & Government

The math behind Dominion Voting System's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News

12:25pm April 14, 2023

by Bente Birkeland

If Dominion prevails in its massive defamation suit against Fox News, a big challenge for the voting tech company will be to demonstrate that it deserves more than $1 billion in damages.

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Police work outside of a home in Albuquerque, N.M., on Feb. 23. Critics say problems with training are attributed to higher levels of police killings in New Mexico.

National

Why New Mexico has one of the highest rates for killings by police

12:16pm April 14, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

A shooting last week in Farmington, N.M., where police went to the wrong house and killed a man, is just the latest example of lethal force being used against civilians in the state.

A group activists gathered outside the Tallahassee City Hall building to protest SB 300, which would place a ban on abortions after six weeks, Monday, April 3, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla.

Florida has a new abortion ban after 6 weeks, but it can't go into effect yet

11:45am April 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

The ban gives Gov. DeSantis a key political victory among Republican primary voters as he prepares to launch a presidential candidacy built on his national brand as a conservative standard bearer.