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Trust Women Wichita clinic staff member Lindsay Mills disinfects an examining room. The abortion clinic is seeing more patients from out of state. Trust Women Wichita is a clinic in Kansas that has long been a lightning rod in the abortion wars. Its former director, George Tiller, was assassinated in 2009 by an antiabortion extremist, and the clinic closed for years because of that. Since...

New California law meant to ease housing crisis likely won't help much in Sacramento  Sacramento Bee

This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. After several legislative attempts in past years fell short, beginning Friday, civilians will have the right to request to review police misconduct records. Anton’s Law, named after 19-year-old Anton Black, who died in police custody in 2018,...

Russians who study and report on the problems faced by the country’s military, space agency and security services, as well as the millions of people who serve in those agencies, can now be named foreign agents, as Russia expands restrictions on its own citizens under the controversial law. Russia’s main security service has published a comprehensive, 60-item list of topics that could lead to ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge is hearing arguments Friday over whether Texas can leave in place the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., which since September has banned most abortions and sent women racing to get care beyond the borders of the nation’s second-most populous state. A lawsuit filed by the Biden administration seeks to land the first legal blow against the Texas law know...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — October comes with a new batch of laws in Florida. Most of the state's new laws from this past year's legislative session took effect July 1, but 24 new laws are now joining the list. Below are some of the more notable laws: Tobacco and nicotine products: (SB 1080): In addition to raising the legal age to 21, a new law makes it illegal to smoke or vape on or within 1,000 ...

TRENTON, NJ — Veterans will now be able to withdraw their honorable discharge papers, commonly called DD-214 papers, from a county clerk’s office in New Jersey. The measure, sponsored by Assemblyman Wayne DeAngelo (D-Mercer/Middlesex) and Assemblywoman Carol Murphy (D-Burlington), was signed into law on Tuesday by Governor Phil Murphy. Veterans have always been allowed to file honorable disch...

NEWINGTON — All rear seat vehicle passengers will now be quite a bit safer when traveling in Connecticut thanks to the advocacy and perseverance of a Newtown lawmaker and several key supporters. On September 27, Newtown State Representative Mitch Bolinsky (R-106), along with Governor Ned Lamont, staff from the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) Office of Highway Safety, Jennifer...

Brian Laundrie manhunt: Gabby Petito in new bodycam footage claims fiance hit her Domestic violence has a long, ugly history, based on the belief that it is OK to beat your wife or girlfriend without consequence. I know. I started one of the first domestic violence units in a prosecutor’s office in the nation in 1978. It was funded by the Department of Justice and because of its success it be...

In May, at the opening of parliament, the Queen finally announced that her government would bring forward legislation to ban the damaging practice of “conversion therapy”. These practices cause untold harm to millions of LGBT+ people around the world, leading many to believe the only way to deal with their psychological trauma and shame is to take their lives. These practices, motivated by a ...