Donald Trump has called the widespread turmoil inflicted on states in the aftermath of overturning Roe v. Wade a “very, very beautiful harmony.” The former president made several statements on the issue during a press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday, each more obscuring than the last. The harmony Trump references seems at odds with his statement earlier this week that Arizona’s state Supreme Court had made a mistake in not repealing a highly restrictive Civil War-era abortion ban. Even Trump agreed that the ban went too far....

Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) appeared together for a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, to promote an election integrity bill. During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Trump called upon President Joe Biden to “close the border immediately,” pointing out that the United States was seeing a rise in “migrant crime” before revealing that they wanted to talk about “election interference” and “election integrity.” “We probably have fifteen million people, and they come from places you don’t want to know...

Vice President Kamala Harris laid into former President Donald J. Trump over abortion rights at a campaign rally in Arizona on Friday, accusing him of being directly responsible for a court decision this week that upheld the state’s 160-year-old near-total ban on abortion. “Overturning Roe was just the opening act,” Ms. Harris told a crowd of several dozen supporters at a community center in Tucson, Ariz. “Just the opening act of a larger strategy to take women’s rights and freedoms. Part of a full-on attack — state by state —...

The secretary of state role has become increasingly fraught since the 2020 election. Now it may be harder than ever for these officials, whose role calls for impartiality, to be seen as nonpartisan, says Richard Winger, founder of Ballot Access News. Ohio’s and Alabama’s declarations have been seen by some as a partisan reaction to the unsuccessful effort supported by Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state to keep former President Donald Trump off her state’s ballot. In response, Republican lawmakers in Colorado tried to impeach Secretary Jena Griswold, but their effort...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. Kevin Stitt said Friday that the reported exodus of more than 130 people from the Oklahoma State Department of Education since Superintendent Ryan Walters took over “sounds like a good thing” and defended Walters’ handling of the department. In a story published first online Thursday, a spokesman for Walters told The Oklahoman that reports of scores of people leaving the OSDE, some out of frustration with its administration, was “fake news.” In a meeting with reporters on Friday morning, Stitt not only seemed to confirm the...

Justin Gibbs had finally gotten his high blood pressure under control with a combination of three medications. But after he had his Medicaid coverage terminated in December amid a nationwide eligibility review, he had to go without one medication for a week and a second for several days, sparking fears that the delicate balance would unravel. “I was concerned that my blood pressure would spike, and I wouldn’t have any way to regulate it,” said Gibbs, 53, a married father of four who works multiple part-time jobs. Fortunately, the Miamisburg,...

From 2010 to 2020, the total number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Georgia increased by 207%, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. But there is new funding to decrease that loss of lives. Recently, a new website was launched with the Georgia Opioid Crisis Abatement, www.gaopioidtrust.org, to help guide applicants seeking funding from the Purdue Pharma settlement Georgia was part of in 2021.

Washington becomes latest state that could leave Biden off their November ballot Washington state has just joined Ohio and Alabama in signifying through elections officials that President Joe Biden could be left off their general election ballots due to a conflict between the dates of the Democratic National Committee's nominating convention and state ballot deadlines. On Thursday, the director of elections at the office of Washington's Secretary of State sent a letter -- obtained by ABC News -- to DNC Chair Jamie Harrison, warning that the deadline for ballot certification...