It is the first ruling in a case challenging “shield laws” intended to protect doctors in states that support abortion rights who send abortion pills to states with bans.

The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth defects.

The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.

More than 10 inches of snow fell in parts of New England as snow, sleet and freezing rain swept across the Northeast before tapering off Sunday.

Emboldened by President Trump, West Virginia and other states are challenging the Climate Change Superfund Act, which makes corporate polluters pay for past emissions.

The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere in the country.

States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.

“I’d rather see the states take care of their own problems,” the president said. Federal emergency managers from both parties have made the same argument.

A group of 15 states have reached a tentative new deal that would require them to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars from the settlement in a legal-defense fund for the family.

“So many of you have never seen an event like this,” Louisiana’s state climatologist warned, with New Orleans facing possibly the most snow it has ever seen.

Heavy snow is expected on Sunday in the Northeast before the coldest air in several years descends across much of the country starting on Monday, forecasters warned.

The snow is likely to fall on Sunday from the Appalachians to New England. New York City may see its largest snowfall in years.

Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.

An incumbent Democrat narrowly won re-election to the state’s highest court. But the Republican-controlled court is considering an unusual protest from her challenger that could flip the result.

Hazardous snow, sleet and freezing rain disrupted travel plans and caused power outages in the Mid-Atlantic region, as bitter cold set in.

Officials are bracing for a dreadful mix of sleet, snow and freezing rain that is forecast to hit from Kansas to Virginia this weekend.

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go.

The northern part of the country could see pink and red streaks in the skies this week, just in time for New Year’s Eve, according to NOAA.

Mr. Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that Republicans, supported by white voters and particularly evangelicals, came to dominate.