Montgomery‚ Ala. — Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilization services in the state advanced legislation to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House on Tuesday approved identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the "damage or death of an embryo" during IVF services. The state's three major IVF providers paused services after...

The romantic relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) and a special prosecutor she appointed to oversee former President Trump’s Georgia election interference case will face fresh scrutiny this week during two local government oversight hearings. Rather than in a courtroom‚ where many romantic details of Willis’s relationship with Nathan Wade spilled out into public view‚ their courtship will now be at the center of a state Senate committee hearing Wednesday and...

Nikki Haley plans to suspend her Republican presidential primary bid in a speech Wednesday morning‚ people familiar with her plans told The Wall Street Journal. The former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador is expected to make an appearance to deliver brief remarks in the Charleston‚ S.C.‚ area around 10 a.m. ET. Her decision arrived the day after Super Tuesday‚ when she won only Vermont among 15 states that held GOP contests. Haley won’t announce an...

Nikki Haley is reportedly planning to announce on Wednesday that she is suspending her GOP presidential primary campaign following her weak showings on Super Tuesday as Donald Trump seems poised to clinch the Republican presidential nomination for a third time. Haley will deliver remarks to her supporters in South Carolina at 10 a.m. Wednesday. She is not expected to endorse Trump but will still urge the former president to appeal to the GOP and independent voters who backed her...

Thirteen months after she launched her 2024 Republican presidential campaign in Charleston‚ South Carolina‚ Nikki Haley is ending her White House bid‚ two sources confirmed to Fox News Digital. The former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in former President Donald Trump's administration is expected to say Wednesday morning that she is suspending her campaign for the GOP nomination‚ but she is not immediately expected to endorse Trump...

Former South Carolina Governor-turned-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will announce the end of her 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday following Donald Trump’s near-sweep of Super Tuesday states.  According to sources reported by multiple outlets‚ Haley will make her departure formal with a speech Wednesday morning in Charleston — but won’t endorse anyone else just yet. Haley won’t announce an endorsement Wednesday‚ the people said. She will encourage...

Sam Altman got his first glimpse of Elon Musk’s boundless ambition more than a decade ago when he showed up at SpaceX’s headquarters in Southern California to meet the man who would change his life. Altman‚ now chief executive of artificial-intelligence pioneer OpenAI‚ was then in his 20s and had recently sold his first startup for a disappointing sum. Musk was 14 years his senior and planning to send rockets to Mars. “I left thinking‚ ‘huh‚ so that’s the benchmark for what...

On March 1‚ the New York Times reported that over the following few weeks‚ some retail pharmacies owned by Walgreens and CVS will begin dispensing mifepristone‚ a key drug used in medication abortions. It’s a big change: Before the pandemic‚ people could only obtain the drug in-person at the office or clinic of the health care provider who prescribed it. But in 2021‚ the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) removed that in-person dispensing...

Hamas appears to be the only party blocking a ceasefire deal in Gaza that could lead to the release of more hostages held by the terror group‚ and with the Muslim month of Ramadan fast approaching‚ many world leaders are worried about violence erupting in Jerusalem. As the war in Gaza goes on and talks to bring it to a temporary halt continue Hamas is apparently balking at every offer of a deal. That led President Joe Biden to say‚ "The hostage deal is in the hands of Hamas right now....

Joe Biden lost the American Samoa Democratic primary to little-known candidate Jason Palmer‚ becoming the first incumbent president to lose a primary since Jimmy Carter in 1980. Palmer's surprising victory tarnished an otherwise perfect night for Biden‚ during which he scored a string of primary wins across the U.S. Biden and Donald Trump secured a wave of victories on Super Tuesday with each now the overwhelming favorite to win their respective parties' 2024...