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Hillary Clinton cautioned on Wednesday that access to abortion care could be further at risk after oral arguments in a Supreme Court case over an Idaho law limiting abortion. The court seemed uncertain if a federal law ensuring access to lifesaving care included access to abortion care when necessary, though the justices…

A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical that Idaho’s strict abortion ban conflicts with a federal emergency care law, but there appeared to be a split by gender as well as ideology during the nearly two hours of argument.  The four female justices, including conservative Amy Coney Barrett, strongly opposed Idaho’s assertion that…

The FBI arrested an Idaho man on Saturday who allegedly planned to attack churches in the state and had pledged allegiance to ISIS, according to the Justice Department. Alexander Scott Mercurio, 18, planned to attack people at churches in Coeur d’Alene on Sunday with various weapons, including “explosives, knives, a machete, a pipe and ultimately firearms,”…

Transgender individuals in Idaho will no longer have access to Medicaid and other government-funded programs to assist with the expenses of gender-affirming medical treatment due to a new state regulation that will become effective in July. Republican Gov. Brad Little signed the bill on Wednesday after it was sent by Idaho’s GOP-controlled Legislature.…

The University of Utah women’s basketball team had to switch hotels after facing several “racial hate crimes” while traveling for the NCAA March Madness tournament. Following Utah's loss to Gonzaga in the tournament's second round on Monday, head coach Lynne Roberts revealed that the team encountered numerous…

One of the neo-Nazis lived with a gay couple when he was a teenager.