A man charged with threatening to kill a Kansas congressman has said in federal court that he has a “very religious” defense.

A prosecutor says the husband of a Massachusetts woman who’s been missing since New Year’s Day went online to look up ways to dismember and dispose of a body, and clothes and other items belonging to the woman were found at a trash processing facility.

Authorities in Peoria, Illinois, are investigating a reported firebombing that they said caused extensive damage to a Planned Parenthood clinic on Sunday, just days after sweeping abortion protections were signed into law in Illinois.

Virginia Senate Democrats have defeated several Republican efforts to repeal a law that aims to reduce carbon pollution through the adoption of California’s stringent rules for vehicle emissions.

President Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment.

Alabama has withdrawn from a 32-state voter registration partnership.

The Montana legislature is considering a proposal that would would interpret the state’s constitutional right to privacy to mean that it does not protect the right to an abortion, a move that would echo others in several states to severely restrict or …

The attorney general’s office in New Hampshire says a group accused of displaying “Keep New England White” banners from an overpass faces state Civil Rights Act violations.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has proposed a vast increase in K-12 public education funding using money from the state’s huge cash reserve.

Environmental and fishing groups say there’s “no evidence” that site preparation work for offshore wind farms in New Jersey and New York is responsible for a spate of whale deaths in the two states.