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The Associated Press is making available the full text of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion:Justice Alito delivered the opinion of the Court.Abortion presents a profound moral issue on…

By COLLIN BINKLEY - AP Education Writer The rights of LGBTQ students would become enshrined in federal law and victims of campus sexual assault would gain new protections under new rules proposed by the…

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge has found that a Georgia sheriff's office was illegally discriminating when it denied gender reassignment surgery to a deputy.U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell ruled June 2 that Houston…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Jeb Barnes, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences(THE CONVERSATION) With a 6-3 majority,…

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The police agency that patrols New York City’s main bus terminal has agreed to stop sending plainclothes officers into its public bathrooms to try and…

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Dare Adewumi was thrilled when he was hired to lead the neurosurgery practice at an Atlanta-area hospital near where he grew up. But he says he…

The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesA popular way to save for out-of-pocket medical expenses might be contributing to health-care inequality, new research suggests.Health savings accounts are tax-advantaged accounts available to…

The bill now heads to the Massachusetts Senate.The bill has its roots in the case of a Massachusetts charter school that came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions.The American Civil Liberties Union of…

BOSTON (AP) — Immigrant women and families are calling on Massachusetts officials to investigate complaints…

In the ruling, Robinson wrote there is no implied customer gender privacy exception to the ban against gender-based discrimination in the state's Public Accommodation Act. The two gyms that are defendants in the case argued there was such…