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Intellectual isolationism won’t help the Ivy League — or the United States

Four states—California, Michigan, Ohio, and Vermont—have constitutions that explicitly provide for a right to an abortion. Most recently, Ohio voters approved Issue 1 on Nov. 7, 2023, which established a state constitutional right to “make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions,” including decisions about abortion, contraception, fertility treatment, miscarriage…

After months of disarray over the legality of abortion, the state supreme court will decide whether to reinstate ‘zombie’ ban

Former president was convicted on all 34 counts by a jury of his peers in Manhattan

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from Dallas, is more than 20 weeks pregnant with a fetus with a rare genetic defect, full trisomy 18, which means it will likely die before birth or at most live a few days.

Constitutional rights are at the center of a legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson

A Florida school board is scheduled to consider whether to seek the resignation of a co-founder of the conservative Moms for Liberty group, who is embroiled in the fallout of a sexual assault investigation into her husband, the Republican Party state chairman

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has renewed his oath of office in a ceremony at the state Capitol

Filing suggests experts could connect former president’s tweets with the movements of January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol