A little more than a week after the South Carolina state House passed a near-total abortion ban, the bill was killed Thursday during a special session of the state Senate, where it was opposed by moderate Republicans and Democrats.
Parental-rights groups allege in a lawsuit that a Wisconsin school district is training teachers to affirm "gender transitioning" without parental notification or consent.
In an act of extraordinary brutality, a man in the San Francisco Bay Area beheaded a young woman in the middle of the street Thursday in front of witnesses.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a symbol of stability in a turbulent era that saw the decline of the British empire and embarrassing dysfunction in her own family, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.