Months after the unprecedented leak of the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, lawmakers in North Dakota have struck down a bill to criminalize court leaks.

Harvey Weinstein is asking New York’s highest court to overturn his 2020 rape conviction, arguing that the judge betrayed his right to a fair trial by “succumbing to the pressure” of the #MeToo movement.

Republican Attorney General Dave Yost has asked the Ohio Supreme Court to weigh in on the future of Ohio’s near-ban on abortions, despite arguing in July that the same court lacked jurisdiction to determine the paused law’s constitutionality.

A prosecutor says an Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the riot at the U.S. Capitol planned the trip for weeks and came prepared for violence.

Conservative Kansas legislators are pushing back more aggressively this year on LGBTQ-rights issues than in the past two years.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy invited a national political spotlight in his state of the state address, taking implicit aim at GOP rivals who criticize blue states for being “woke” while also calling for “responsible” government.

Bills introduced Tuesday in the Nebraska Legislature address a voter ID requirement passed by voters in November, but also add measures that critics say are designed to make it harder to vote.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is reaffirming a commitment to clean water he made exactly four years ago.

The House Ethics Committee has been asked to investigate Rep. George Santos.

The latest in a relentless string of California storms is swamping roads, battering coastlines with high surf, turning rivers into gushing flood zones and forcing the evacuation of thousands in towns with histories of deadly mudslides. The storms have …