BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell, or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state where abortions are banned with few exceptions.

Democratic senators joined hundreds of faith leaders on the Capitol steps Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to denounce SNAP and Medicaid cuts in President Donald Trump's massive budget proposal.

President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson say their tax-and-spending bill will slash the deficit. A growing number of their Republican colleagues disagree.

Some would call it another perfect call. And as soon as Sen. Josh Hawley hung up the phone, the Missouri Republican rushed to social media to report on the “great talk” he just had and

President Trump likes to say he's bringing in trillions of dollars in investments from foreign countries, but a provision in his tax cuts bill could cause international companies to avoid expanding into the United States.

Democratic lawmakers will submit a bill in the Senate on Tuesday that would reverse the Pentagon's new ban on transgender military service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria who now face being forced out if they had not previously self-identified as transgender.

Louisiana may be able to speed up executions after the Legislature passed a bill to overhaul post-conviction relief, a mechanism where inmates seek to have their sentences shortened or overturned.

House Bill 2025 was introduced with 20 days left in the legislative session. Republicans are not happy, saying they have been left out of the process.

It would prohibit school libraries from removing books on the basis of their being about or by a member of a protected class as defined in Oregon’s anti-discrimination law.

Proposal to include partial hospitalization services is moving forward, but only after lawmakers removed a key component to cut costs.