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.
The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol said that agents caught ten undocumented immigrant sex offenders in three days, in addition to several gang members and other convicted criminals.