by Alex Lederman | Jan 20, 2016 | Living
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices questioned lawyers Wednesday about whether tribal sovereignty over Indian reservations can be lost to non-Indian settlements in a case that could affect the territorial boundaries of Indian reservations and tribes’ rights to...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 22, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON – In the midst of a cold freeze gripping the capital, thousands of people gathered Wednesday on the National Mall to protest federal funding for abortions and promote adoption on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which legalized the procedure in...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 15, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court justices Wednesday questioned the fairness of a Massachusetts law that creates restrictive zones around abortion clinics, pitting First Amendment rights against obstruction statutes. The court weighed the state’s history of disturbances near...
by Lauren Caruba | Jan 14, 2014 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights were under attack from the right in 2013, especially at the state level, despite wide pro-choice support among Americans, according to an annual report released Tuesday by NARAL Pro-Choice America. States approved 53 laws identified by...
by Jaclyn Skurie | Mar 14, 2012 | Environment
WASHINGTON— Charlie Gilpin Jr. has been fishing on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers for almost 20 years, and invasive Asian carp have been a nuisance for as long as he can remember. Recently, he counted 23 carp inside his boat. They got there just by jumping. But...
