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...

What to know about President Donald Trump's order targeting the rights of transgender people

An executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office offers a new federal government definition of the sexes that could have a major impact on transgender people nationwide. The order calls for the federal government to define sex as only male or female...

President Trump pardons anti-abortion activists convicted for blockading abortion clinic entrances

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement of lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, the attorneys general from several states announced Thursday. The deal, agreed...

Residents ordered to pay $850,000 bond to appeal Ohio derailment settlement vow not to give up

Residents challenging Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement for the disastrous East Palestinetrain crash have asked a court to reject a judge's order requiring them to put up an $850,000 bond to continue their appeal for higher compensation and more information about the contamination. ...

Family who owns Purdue Pharma could pay up to $7.4 billion in latest settlement of lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

UK police make arrest after 5 people are injured in knife attack in south London

LONDON (AP) — A man has been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm after five people were stabbed on Thursday morning in south London, emergency services said. The Metropolitan Police said a man in his 50s, two men in their 30s and two men in their 20s were taken to...

Mississippi bill to revise law for low-income pregnant women passes first legislative hurdle

Low-income women in Mississippi would be able to access free prenatal care faster under a bill that passed the House Medicaid committee Wednesday. The same law passed the full Legislature last year, but never went into effect due to a discrepancy between what was written into state...

Mikaela Shiffrin healed from puncture wound suffered in ski crash, will race next week in France

Six weeks ago, Mikaela Shiffrin didn’t have the core strength to even rise out of a chair. A sneeze or a laugh brought on instant pain. That was all due to a serious crash in a giant slalom race on Nov. 30 in Killington, Vermont, where something punctured her in the side — still...