| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.09.2026 | Divorce becomes next battleground as states debate family values | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
Cerina Fairfax, a Virginia dentist and mother of two, spent nearly two years living in the same house as her husband while she was trying to divorce him.
Virgi... |
| 24.08.2026 | ‘I wanted the pregnancy. It was just so scary’: Personal stories from anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sofia Resnick and Shalina Chatlani, Stateline.org
Hailey Allred and Jessica Perigo don’t know each other, but last year they were both financially insecure and living in abortion-ban states, whe... |
| 21.08.2026 | No more ‘hypothetical situations’: States move to fortify elections against Trump | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
State Democratic officials are preparing for chaos at the polls this November, as President Donald Trump casts doubt on election security and pushes for more federal i... |
| 19.08.2026 | More GOP party platforms include anti-IVF language. Is surrogacy next? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
Brooke Green thought she needed a mammogram.
Green, a Democratic state representative in Idaho, knew that breast cancer ran in her family and she “just had a... |
| 12.08.2026 | Rise in US preteen suicide rate alarms mental health experts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
Editor’s note: If you or someone you know needs help, call or text 988, the U.S. suicide and crisis lifeline, or access online chat at 988lifeline.org.
For months, ... |
| 10.08.2026 | With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org
Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to b... |
| 31.07.2026 | State AGs expand consumer work as prices rise and Trump guts federal protections | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
Since President Donald Trump has gutted much of the federal government’s consumer protection work, state attorneys general are increasingly left to fight high prices a... |
| 24.07.2026 | Feds have a new teen pregnancy prevention plan: Fertility and ‘reproductive goals’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations... |
| 01.07.2026 | Trump changes pregnancy-prevention program to promote childbearing | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sofia Resnick, Stateline.org
A federal poverty-fighting program focused on reducing unintended pregnancies is about to undergo a major overhaul.
Reproductive health clinics use Title X federal g... |
| 18.06.2026 | More Americans are hungry in the face of federal cuts, rising grocery prices | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside of St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple protei... |
| 16.06.2026 | High-potency cannabis fuels state debates over psychosis and addiction risks | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amanda Watford, Stateline.org
When her son was a teenager, Connecticut mom Amy Wadsworth said, he was the type of kid parents rarely worry about.
He played sports, cared about his health and sta... |
| 04.06.2026 | New medical guidance affirms Tylenol safety during pregnancy months after Trump sows doubt | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sofia Resnick, Stateline.org
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine published new clinical guidance this week affirming that acetaminophen, better known by its brand Tylenol, should be the “fir... |
| 04.06.2026 | Lawsuits challenging embryo disposal could hinder IVF | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sofia Resnick, Stateline.org
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the st... |
| 29.05.2026 | EV Battery Electrolyte Supply Chain: Donghwa Wins New US Customer, Tightens Tennessee Foothold | By Allen Lee
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| 15.05.2026 | State officials demand transparency as businesses get billions in Trump tariff refunds | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
The fiscal leaders of several states are demanding transparency and consumer fairness as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to refund billions in internatio... |
| 29.04.2026 | GOP candidates revive anti-Islam attacks as midterms approach | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
Republican lawmakers and candidates across the country have escalated their anti-Islam rhetoric in recent months, a strategy aimed at energizing voters by clai... |
| 23.03.2026 | Unchecked Funding: Crisis Pregnancy Centers Face Scrutiny Amid Safety Concerns | Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) receive unprecedented public funding. This infusion of taxpayer dollars, reaching nearly half a billion from 21 states since 2022, lacks vital oversight. These centers, driven by religious missions, often mis... |
| 22.03.2026 | Federal funding for people in poverty heading to anti-abortion centers instead | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Stateline.org
The bulk of the money Missouri gives to its crisis pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families experiencing poverty with basic necess... |
| 22.03.2026 | ‘What’s your plan for this pregnancy?’ Comfort, shame and a missed diagnosis | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Nada Hassanein and Shalina Chatlan, Stateline.org
For nearly 60 years, crisis pregnancy centers have been a pillar of the anti-abortion movement. Related Articles
Federal fu... |
| 22.03.2026 | Taxpayer dollars flood pregnancy centers. Oversight hasn’t followed | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Nada Hassanein, Shalina Chatlani and Sofia Resnick, Stateline.org
The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic... |
| 09.01.2026 | Freestanding birth centers are closing as maternity care gaps grow | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers and Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org
Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama’s first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, wanted to impr... |
| 12.12.2025 | How Cops Are Using Flock Safety’s ALPR Network To Surveil Protesters And Activists | It’s no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, law enforcement officers—including U.S. Border Patrol agents—were quietly watching tho... |
| 13.11.2025 | Congress pushes hemp crackdown after pressure from states, marijuana industry | By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
A provision significantly limiting the sale of intoxicating hemp products made its way into legislation to reopen the federal government just a day before the Senate approved the bill. Its inclusion follows yea... |
| 13.10.2025 | ‘This shutdown feels different.’ Some worry states might not get repaid when government reopens | By Kevin Hardy, Stateline.org
States are doing what they generally do during a federal government shutdown: continuing to operate programs serving some of the neediest people.
That means schools are still serving federally subsidized meals ... |
| 22.08.2025 | Microsoft AI CEO Warns That 'Dangerous' and 'Seemingly Conscious' AI Models Could Arrive in the Next 2 Years: 'Deserves Our Immediate Attention' Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, 41, said that seemin... | AI that appears to be conscious could arrive within the next few years, posing a "dangerous" threat to society, says one AI leader.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, 41, wrote in a personal essay published earlier this week that ... |
| 04.08.2025 | Decision to unfreeze migrant education money comes too late for some kids | But for Gomez de la Torre’s program, the damage had already been done: Without the money, it had to shut down this summer.
“We didn’t have enough money left over to carry the program,” said Joram Rejouis, the director of program development... |
| 29.06.2025 | More states are tracking rape kits. But key support for survivors may be slipping away | Test results are sometimes returned to investigators who check for DNA matches in national or state databases. A match could connect the case to other sexual assaults or link a suspect to another crime.
But processing a single kit can take ... |
| 02.05.2025 | Trump Administration Violated Human Rights Law By Paying El Salvador To Imprison Immigrants | This comes as no surprise. Pretty much everything about Trump’s extrajudicial rendering of undocumented migrants to a foreign hellhole prison has been awful, but rarely lawful, to twist a phrase that’s already pretty twisted.
Resurrecting a... |
| 19.04.2025 | The Power Struggle: Data Centers, AI Demand, and Rising Energy Costs | In the digital age, data centers are the backbone of our online existence. They store, process, and transmit the vast amounts of data that fuel our daily lives. But as artificial intelligence (AI) surges in popularity, these data centers ar... |
| 17.04.2025 | As demand for AI rises, so do power thirsty data centers | “We definitely try to think about the climate side of it with a critical eye,” said Jennifer Brandon, a science and sustainability consultant. “All of a sudden, it’s adding so much strain on the grid to some of these places.” The rise of da... |
| 17.04.2025 | Lawmakers fear AI data centers will drive up residents’ power bills | The bill is among roughly a dozen proposals in state legislatures nationwide seeking to ensure that data centers don’t result in increased rates for other electric customers, according to the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, a ... |
| 04.05.2024 | UNO Media Mentions | Friday, April 26
The Nebraska Examiner reported on a $23 million donation from the Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation, which will bolster scholarship programs for Omaha students within the University of Nebraska system. Most of the donat... |
| 07.03.2024 | Bathroom bills are back — broader and stricter — in several states | Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | (TNS) KFF Health News
Republican lawmakers in several states have resurrected and expanded the fight over whether transgender people may use bathrooms and other facilities that do not match their sex assigned at bi... |
| 15.02.2023 | Biden renews a call for action on gun control following Michigan State mass shooting | Police vehicles outside Michigan State University following a mass shooting that killed three people and injured five on Feb. 13, 2023.
Photo by Anna Gustafson of the Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden at an annual meeting wi... |
| 04.01.2023 | Trump fixation on Wisconsin, Ginni Thomas text regrets and more from the Jan. 6 panel | In the final weeks of 2022, the Democrat-led U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, attack on the Capitol disclosed thousands of pages of transcripts of interviews the panel’s members and staff conducted with key witnesses.
The tran... |
| 21.12.2022 | Child tax credit expansion left out of congressional omnibus package | WASHINGTON — Any last hopes of resurrecting the expanded child tax credit as part of Congress’ massive spending package were dashed early Tuesday when the 4,155-page bill was released without a mention of the tax benefit.
The temporary expa... |
| 22.11.2022 | Student loan repayment pause extended by White House amid legal battles over relief plan | WASHINGTON — The Department of Education announced on Tuesday it is extending the pandemic-era pause on federal student loan repayments until June 30 while legal challenges to the administration’s student debt relief program are fought over... |
| 11.11.2022 | Congress heads back to D.C. for a hectic lame-duck session | WASHINGTON – Congress returns to Capitol Hill and a lengthy to-do list next week, following a six-week midterm elections break that saw Democrats outperform expectations and Republicans barely inch toward the U.S. House majority.
On the age... |
| 10.11.2022 | Record-setting number of women elected as governors in midterms | Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly was reelected Tuesday to a second term in office. Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector
WASHINGTON — The United States’ ceiling for female governors was shattered this week, with voters in 12 states electing women to the ro... |
| 28.09.2022 | Stopgap spending bill advances in U.S. Senate after Manchin pulls his energy plan | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate advanced a catchall spending package Tuesday that would provide billions to aid Ukraine’s war effort, help communities throughout the country recover from natural disasters and keep the federal government funded... |
| 24.08.2022 | Federal judge sides with Texas, blocks HHS guidance on emergency abortions | WASHINGTON — A federal district judge has granted the Texas attorney general’s request to temporarily block guidance from the federal government that says federal law protects health care providers who perform abortions to save the life or ... |
| 28.07.2022 | Manchin and U.S. Senate Democrats strike a deal on major health, climate, tax package | Medication illustration (Pxhere/Creative Commons).
WASHINGTON — West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer struck an agreement Wednesday for a Democrats-only reconciliation package that would allo... |
| 01.07.2022 | Lower insulin co-pays, list prices targeted in new bipartisan U.S. Senate bill | WASHINGTON — Two key senators have unveiled the details of a bipartisan plan to lower costs for insulin, a lifesaving drug that some Americans have struggled to afford in recent years as prices have skyrocketed.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, a New ... |
| 13.06.2022 | Will it be ‘every state for themselves’ as the federal COVID cash dries up? | WASHINGTON — State and local health departments remain in limbo over whether they’ll need to single-handedly fund their own Covid-19 vaccines and treatments as a stalemate in Congress drags into its fourth month.
The Biden administration ha... |
| - | Election officials risk criminal charges under 31 new GOP-imposed penalties | Second in a two-part series. See part one here.
Since the 2020 election, Iowa has enacted one new felony and two new misdemeanor offenses targeting election officials.
The state’s omnibus election law, passed in 2021, criminalizes election ... |
| - | Biden vows codifying Roe v. Wade will top his agenda if Democrats expand control | WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday promised that if Democrats keep control of the U.S. House and gain a few more Democratic seats in the Senate, then “the first bill that I will send to Congress will be to codify Roe v. Wade.”
He a... |
| - | Four things to watch for at the upcoming Jan. 6 hearing | The U.S. House committee investigating a pro-Trump mob’s attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is back. It will hold its first hearing in nearly three months Thursday — and potentially its last.
In a break from most of the panel’s previous... |
| - | Trump had to be physically restrained from joining Jan. 6 mob, House panel told | Donald Trump had to be held back from joining his enraged, rioting supporters — even after the president was told they were armed — in their assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to astonishing testimony to the Jan. 6 committee Tuesday fro... |
| - | D.C. nears Jan. 6 anniversary with warnings about extremism, awards for courage | Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party's Election Day watch party in Detroit on Nov. 8, 2022. (Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance) Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance
WASHINGTON – On the eve of the second anniversary o... |
| - | Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage | Of the 20 states that have failed to raise the minimum wage above the federal $7.25 an hour standard, 16 have more than 12% of their children living in poverty, according to a States Newsroom analysis of wage and poverty data. Anti-poverty ... |
| - | Man who attacked Speaker Pelosi’s husband wanted to break ‘her kneecaps,’ DOJ says | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday announced federal charges against the man who allegedly broke into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and attacked her 82-year-old husband with a hammer.
If convicted, ... |
