Sandhya Somashekhar

Administration change allows businesses to claim religious, moral objections to covering birth control in company health plans.

Major gaps in what the bureau knows about people in the market for firearms can prove deadly.

A hearing in federal court in Washington on Wednesday could determine whether a 17-year-old who crossed the border illegally can get the procedure.

Despite requests, two-thirds of U.S. counties still haven’t set up a system for wireless alerts.

Gun control group says the companies that make and sell “bump stocks” were negligent in making the devices widely available.

Marilou Danley is considered a critical witness in trying to decipher Stephen Paddock’s motive.

Paddock’s family said there was nothing in his past that would suggest violence.

Entire neighborhoods are blanketed in murky water, the waves in some cases reaching near the first-floor windows. Tops of buildings were sliced open, their top-floor rooms visible like dollhouses.

Puerto Rico gets its first full look at staggering damage left by the strongest storm to hit the island in more than 80 years.

Maria is the strongest hurricane to hit Puerto Rico since 1932.

For nursing home residents, evacuations can contribute to serious health effects.

As Harvey batters Southeast Texas and floods Houston, reporters for the Washington Post are fanned across the region

More than 9 trillion gallons of water have fallen over eastern Texas as worst-case scenarios unfold.

Texas fails to approve a bill requiring people to use the restroom that matches their birth certificate, which was viewed as a swipe against transgender people.

After discovery of several dead and dozens injured in dangerously overheated tractor-trailer, renewed calls for sanctuary-city crackdown, immigration reform.

As red states seek to rein in their blue cities, a tree ordinance in the famously liberal Texas capital is the latest target.

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” the former U.S. attorney of the Southern District of New York said Trump called him twice as president-elect, “ostensibly just to shoot the breeze.”

A new policy allows pharmacists to prescribe birth control directly to women, part of a wave of state efforts.

Deja Foxx, the teenager who confronted an Arizona senator in a viral video, is working to block funding cuts to Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood affiliates announced the closures of 10 health centers across the Midwest and Southwest this week, citing a variety of reasons including political attacks by antiabortion lawmakers.