A court in Texas on Friday issued a temporary order siding with a group of women and doctors who brought a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion bans.The case, which was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights, argues that the way medical exce...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a ban on treatment for transgender minors, making his state the largest in the United States to place restrictions on youth access to such care.Abbott followed in the footsteps of Florida Governor Ron...

With bills targeting transgender youth multiplying at an alarming rate, Mary knew it was time to leave Texas -- and fast.So she looked for places she could raise her child safely, and landed on the northern US state of Minnesota, clear across the cou...

A federal judge in Texas overturned the two-decade-old approval of a safe and effective abortion pill on Friday, the latest volley in a conservative battle against reproductive rights in the United States.If it stands, the ruling by a Donald Trump ap...

The FBI field office in Houston, Texas has launched investigations into civil rights violations in the Harris County Jail following the deaths of some inmates.The investigations were opened after Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez’s office sent a requ...

California's governor signed into law Friday new gun control legislation modeled on a controversial legal approach used in Texas to curb access to abortions.Last year, well before the US Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion, t...

At least 46 migrants were found dead Monday in and around a truck that was abandoned on the roadside on the outskirts of the Texas city of San Antonio.The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent...