A judge ruled Friday that Missouri’s near-total abortion ban is unenforceable under a new constitutional amendment, ensuring abortion will be legal in the state. Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang issued an order blocking the state’s strict abortion law after a new abortion-rights constitutional amendment recently took effect. Missouri is one of five states where voters approved ballot measures in the 2024 general election to add the right to an abortion to their state constitutions.
Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a wind turbine base said Friday they were trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks, leading to the crash that derailed the train and propelled the enormous wind turbine base into the air. Two employees of Omaha, Nebraska-based Union Pacific were killed in the collision Wednesday at a railway crossing in Pecos. The National Transportation Safety Board said it hasn’t yet determined how long the tractor-trailer was on the tracks before the collision or if anyone tried to contact the railroad through the emergency number posted at the crossing.
Johnny Zuagar says he’s tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighs how much to spend on Christmas presents. Like thousands of federal workers, Zuagar is navigating the holidays with the spirit of the season overtaken by an air of gloom and uncertainty. The turbulent efforts in Congress to reach an agreement on funding the federal government have cast a cloud over the holidays for many federal workers facing possible furloughs in the days before Christmas.
Here's what the anticipated record number of holiday travelers should know about how a government shutdown could affect trips.
The FDA on Friday approved Eli Lilly's weight-loss drug Zepbound as a treatment for moderate-to-severe sleep apnea and obesity.
Amazon delivery drivers and Starbucks baristas are on strike in a handful of U.S. cities as they seek to exert pressure on the two major companies to recognize them as unionized employees or to meet demands for an inaugural labor contract. Large and established labor unions secured meaningful employer concessions this year following strikes by Boeing factory workers, dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports, video game performers, and hotel and casino workers on the Las Vegas Strip. Amazon refuses to acknowledge the organizing efforts of drivers and warehouse workers — many of whom have voted to unionize — even though the powerful Teamsters union says it represents them.
A student opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday in a shooting that left two people and the suspect dead and others injured.
Elon Musk has been a constant companion to President-elect Donald Trump as Trump meets with foreign leaders.
Nearly four years after the US Capitol was overtaken by Donald Trump’s supporters, the first defendant in the January 6, 2021, attack to plead guilty to seditious conspiracy was sentenced Friday to three years of probation.
Former top Coast Guard officials hid a yearslong investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the service's academy from both Congress and the public after leaders debated the fallout from a potential disclosure, according to a U.S. Senate committee report released Friday. Coast Guard officials also took steps to remove references to the investigation, named Operation Fouled Anchor, from records submitted to Congress, according to the report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. “Today’s report confirms and provides additional powerful evidence that the cover-up of sexual assault in the Coast Guard was deliberate and purposeful and longstanding,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who chairs the committee, said Friday.
Instead she was buried without any religious rites in a cemetery in Rayong, about two hours southeast of the Thai capital Bangkok and one hour from her family's home. It was only this year that Bibeam was given the Buddhist cremation her parents had wanted when she was included in a rare Lang Pa Cha cemetery cleansing ceremony, a ritual that originated during China's Song dynasty and was brought to Thailand by Chinese immigrants. "I am very satisfied and happy that my baby can have her funeral rite like others," her mother, 26-year-old Paikaew Thaijaroen, told Reuters.
AUSTIN, Texas — Death row inmate Robert Roberson, who faces the prospect of becoming the first person in the U.S. to be executed for a “shaken baby” death, was a no-show Friday at a hearing before a Texas state House committee where he was supposed to testify.
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to avert a government shutdown with just hours to spare, with Democrats joining Republicans to advance a funding bill keeping the lights on through mid-March.- 'Let it begin' - The House-passed bill avoids all that by funding the government until mid-March in a package that includes $110 billion in disaster aid and financial relief for farmers.
Pope Francis will conduct centuries-old rituals that open symbolic doors to forgiveness. They're not portals to other dimensions, planes or worlds.
The trailing Republican in a tight North Carolina Supreme Court race suffered legal setbacks Friday as a federal judge refused to halt any upcoming official declaration that his Democratic rival won their November election. U.S. District Judge Richard Myers rejected a demand by attorneys for Jefferson Griffin for a temporary restraining order to prevent the State Board of Elections from issuing a certificate that state Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs won. Separately, the state board dismissed election protests filed across dozens of counties by Griffin and three GOP legislative candidates who also were involved in close elections.
Richard Allen was sentenced to 65 years for each death, totaling 130 years in prison.
O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled Friday that the state's Republican governor, not a local Democratic official, has the power to fill a vacancy in the prosecutor's office for the state's most populous county. A spokesperson said St. Louis County would appeal St. Louis Circuit Judge Brian May's decision siding with Gov. Mike Parson over St. Louis County Executive Sam Page. Both Parson and Page argued that they had the authority to replace County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, a Democrat, who is due to take a U.S. House seat next month representing the city of St. Louis and part of neighboring St. Louis County.
A post from Elon Musk on his platform X claiming that only the far-right AfD party can "save Germany" sparked accusations Friday that he was seeking to interfere in the country's upcoming election.We object to interference in our election campaign," Schaefer told the Tagesspiegel daily.
The House passed a short-term plan to keep the government’s doors open until President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but the Senate must still vote
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