Clayton Vickers

Idaho's state Senate minority leader said the Supreme Court's coming decision on her state's abortion ban makes her "queasy," as conservative justices heard arguments Wednesday in the latest abortion battle before the high court. The Court heard oral arguments on the Biden administration's mandate that hospitals that receive Medicare funding provide an abortion if its...

The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) took a drubbing at a Senate hearing on Wednesday after a report from Democrats accused the student loan servicer of millions of billing errors, delays and “borrower abuse” since repayments began after the pandemic. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Banking subcommittee on economic policy, scolded...

Scientists are watching migratory birds, cattle and marine mammals across the Americas amid an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) that has infected at least one person. Last week, a dairy worker in Texas contracted H5N1, a bird flu variant, from infected cattle — the second such case ever in the U.S. and the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an expanding — and often invisible — role in America’s legal system. While AI tools are being used to inform criminal investigations, there is often no way for defendants to challenge their digital accuser or even know what role it played in the case. "Under current law in most jurisdictions,...

Federal authorities are downplaying the public health risk after the second ever case of a human contracting the "highly pathogenic" bird flu in the United States was confirmed in Texas on Monday. The infected man was exposed while he worked as a dairy worker, the Texas Department of State Health Services said. The person had...

A Texas man has contracted a “highly pathogenic” bird flu that has spread through U.S. dairy cows in five states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Authorities, however, are playing down the wider risk to public health from the strain, according to a statement from the CDC Monday. "This infection does...

Thousands of people will form a four-mile human chain in Nashville on Wednesday to honor the anniversary of the Covenant school shooting and demonstrate their support of gun law reform. The event’s nonprofit organizer, Voices for a Safer Tennessee, was created in the aftermath of the shooting by a group of Tennessee moms spurred to...