(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed new laws expanding abortion access on public college campuses while vowing to make Illinois a “safe haven” for out-of-state women seeking to terminate a pregnancy. House Bill 3709 requires campus pharmacies to offer contraception and abortion pills, while House Bill 3637 strengthens Illinois’ shield law protecting providers from out-of-state prosecution. […]

Federal Emergency Management Agency employees warned members of Congress about their concerns that the agency is unprepared for another large-scale disaster under the Trump administration.  In a letter to Congress titled the “Katrina Declaration,” more than 100 employees pushed back against President Donald Trump’s plan to drastically scale down the agency and shift more responsibility […]

(The Center Square) – Seven weeks after flash floods ripped through Hunt and Ingram in Kerr County, recovery and rebuilding efforts are ongoing. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott returned to the area Saturday as he has repeatedly done since July 4. This time, it was to hand out checks directly to survivors through money raised by […]

An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip has killed more than a dozen individuals, including at least four journalists with international media. Two missiles hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday, with video of the second impact, which struck emergency personnel responding to the first missile, caught on a livestream. “Today, […]