Health

Last week, a Texas woman sued her home state for the right to obtain an abortion in a new kind of challenge to the bans that most Republican-controlled states have begun enforcing in the last year and a half since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations warned on Tuesday that hunger could surge across West and Central Africa next year, primarily driven by violence in the conflict-riddled region.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island's auditor general says many Islanders aren't receiving knee and cataract surgeries within wait times that meet national targets.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture , and increasing help for vulnerable communities.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal condition left the state to get an abortion elsewhere before the state Supreme Court on Monday rejected her unprecedented challenge of one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S.

DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Monday formally dismissed misdemeanor charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water scandal and ordered that police records and his booking photo be destroyed.

EDMONTON — Briella Johanne Brooks was born healthy, with blue eyes and fine dark hair. At 33 days old, she ingested methamphetamine and died.

OTTAWA — With the House of Commons set to rise for the holidays at the end of this week, time is quickly running out for the Liberal government to introduce pharmacare legislation before the end of the year.