North Dakota’s overturned abortion ban won’t be in effect during appeal, court rules

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s abortion ban will not be enforced while the state appeals an earlier decision that found it unconstitutional, the state's highest court ruled Friday. That appeal has yet to fully play out in the state Supreme Court after a judge struck down...

Trump and Vance join March for Life anti-abortion activists in celebrating the movement's gains

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vowed to support anti-abortion-rights protesters in his second term as tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Washington on Friday for the annual March for Life. “We will again stand proudly for families and for life,” Trump...

US Justice Department drops case against Texas doctor charged with leaking transgender care data

DALLAS (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren't under his care. The dismissal of the case against...

Long Island’s last duck farm weighs closure after outbreak leads to killing of entire flock

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions of birds at U.S. poultry farms and driven up the price of eggs struck the...

Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking access to reproductive health centers

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new Justice Department leadership issued an order Friday to curtail prosecutions against people accused of blocking access to abortion clinics and reproductive health centers, calling the cases an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement. ...

Justice Department curtails prosecutions for blocking reproductive care facilities and orders dismissal of 3 cases

Trump ends Fauci's security detail and says he'd feel no responsibility if harm befell him

FLETCHER, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised him on the COVID-19 pandemic, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Fauci is the latest in a string of former Trump...

Mississippi House passes pharmacy benefit manager transparency bill

A bill that aims to increase pharmacy benefit managers’ transparency by requiring them to report data to the agency that oversees pharmacy practice in Mississippi passed in the House of Representatives Thursday. But the Board of Pharmacy and some pharmacists say the legislation...

Emergency contraception pill could be an alternative to mifepristone for abortions, study suggests

A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher dose as an abortion drug, providing a possible alternative to mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in the most common type of abortion in the United States. Mifepristone has been...

Trump pardons anti-abortion activists who blockaded clinic entrances

CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Thursday he would pardon anti-abortion activists convicted of blockading abortion clinic entrances. Trump called it “a great honor to sign this.” "They should not have been prosecuted," he said as he signed pardons...