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What initially looked like an outright victory for anti-abortion activists Friday evening soon became more complicated.

There's a reason why politicians have long shied away from addressing Social Security's massive financial problems. The commonly proposed solutions involve cutting benefits or raising taxes, which would spark an outcry from a range of powerful constituents, including senior citizens and the business community.

In his yearlong battle with Disney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly leaned on the element of surprise in his attempts to outmaneuver the entertainment giant and its army of executives, high-priced lawyers and politically connected lobbyists.

After writing several previous newsletters on the stunning rise in opioid overdoses in the US, including among adolescents, I thought it was worth taking a look at what happens after an overdose, particularly for adolescents.

A conservative Texas judge on Friday put a dent in the blue wall of abortion rights protections, issuing an order that could suspend approval of a drug used in medication abortions by women across the country -- including in states with robust protections in place.

A pair of conflicting federal court rulings on Friday created arguably the most contentious and chaotic legal flashpoint over abortion access since the Supreme Court's ruling last summer that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended the right to an abortion nationwide.

Two days after being hit with a lawsuit over a legal opinion that said Idaho's abortion ban prohibits medical providers from referring patients out-of-state for abortion services, the state's attorney general said Friday that he is rescinding the analysis.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer has quietly issued several subpoenas for documents and bank records as part of the Republican-led investigation into the financial dealings of President Joe Biden's family, according to an internal memo shared among Democrats on the panel.

The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up an appeals court ruling that struck down a Trump-era federal ban on so-called bump stocks.

Texas federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling Friday on medication abortion drug mifepristone, saying he will suspend the US Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of it.

Three artworks created by the president's son, Hunter Biden, were put on display at a Manhattan art gallery on Thursday -- priced at $85,000 each.

The Justice Department and Danco, a manufacturer of mifepristone, filed notices of appeal to the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Nashville on Friday where she delivered an impassioned speech advocating for gun control and met with a pair of state lawmakers who were expelled from the General Assembly after protesting on the state House floor.

The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the leaks of a trove of apparent US intelligence documents that were posted on social media in recent weeks.

Key Democrats hoping to keep abortion access a central part of the 2024 campaign are looking to the 2004 playbook of an old Republican nemesis: Karl Rove.

As House Republicans prepared to pass a parental rights bill -- a signature plank of their governing agenda -- GOP leaders ran into unexpected headwinds.

The Pentagon is investigating what appear to be screenshots of classified US and NATO military information about Ukraine circulating on social media, a Pentagon official told CNN.

The State Department's review of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has far more findings in it than the document about the withdrawal that the White House released Thursday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the report.

The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has upheld the Justice Department's use of a key criminal charge against hundreds of January 6 rioters, saying they can be charged with obstructing Congress.

Americans' views of the economy are the best they've been in more than a year, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS -- but they're still pretty bad, with 7 in 10 saying it's in poor shape. Closer to home, 50% say their own financial situation is worse than it was a year ago.