Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The Texas Medical Board released guidance on what qualifies for an exception to the state’s multiple abortion bans, weighing in on how physicians can provide care in medical emergencies. While the board voted to publish the guidance publicly, they will vote on adopting theRead More →

Getty Images – STOCK (CAMEL VALLEY, Calif.) — A 30-year-old woman who went on a day-trip hike in coastal California has now been missing for four days, according to authorities. Search and rescue teams are scouring the trails around the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for Caroline Meister, the Monterey CountyRead More →

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday filed a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair, threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson just months after he ascended to the speakership. “I filed the motion to vacate today, but it’s more of a warning and aRead More →

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House passed a $1.2 trillion government funding package, the first in a series of steps that need to be taken to avert a partial government shutdown before a deadline at midnight Friday. The bills passed in a 286-134 vote despite pushback from far-right membersRead More →

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden boasted that the nation reported a historically low murder rate in 2023 and violent crime had plummeted to one of the lowest levels in 50 years. For some Americans, however, the perception ofRead More →

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s social media company Truth Social completed a merger Friday morning that could net the former president over $3 billion. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corporation — a special purpose acquisition company — approved a merger with Trump Media & Technology Group, which ownsRead More →

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mega Million’s jackpot has surged to $977 million after no winners were selected in Tuesday night’s drawing. The next drawing is Friday night at 11 p.m. The numbers drawn Saturday night were: 24, 46, 49, 62 and 66 and gold Mega Ball 7. ThereRead More →

Smithsonian Institution (NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered a new ancient amphibian species that could bridge the gap in understanding how modern-day frogs and salamanders developed. The fossilized skull of the 270-million-year-old amphibian ancestor was first unearthed in 1984 in a rock formation in Texas. However, it spent decades sittingRead More →

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Two suspected squatters have been taken into custody for questioning after they allegedly killed a woman who walked in on them living in her mother’s New York City apartment, police sources told ABC News. The victim, Nadia Vitel, a 52-year-old woman from Spain, came toRead More →

WKRN (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — The body of missing college student Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland River in West Nashville Friday morning following a two-week search, according to Nashville police. “No foul play-related trauma was observed,” police said. There’s no evidence to suggest anything besides Strain accidentally falling inRead More →