Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is slated to hold a potentially big role in a new Trump administration, said Wednesday there are “entire departments” within the Food…

Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he won’t take away vaccines from people when President-elect Trump takes office in January. Kennedy, who is expected to serve in a…

Workers in three states are now entitled to paid sick leave for the first time.   In Alaska, most workers are now entitled to at least 40 hours of paid…

Reproductive rights were broadly popular at the state level Tuesday night, as seven states passed ballot measures aimed at preserving, expanding or restoring the right to an abortion.  The measures…

The ballot measure enshrining the right to an abortion in the Colorado state constitution has passed. The initiative — called Amendment 79 — makes abortion a constitutional right in Colorado…

A proposed state constitutional amendment enshrining the right to “reproductive freedom” has passed.   Reproductive rights advocates say that the amendment will protect abortion access in the state and that…

Montana voters have passed a ballot measure that will amend the state’s constitution to include the right to an abortion, cementing access to abortion services in the state.  Constitutional Initiative…

Florida on Tuesday became the first state to reject an abortion rights amendment since Roe v. Wade was overturned, but backers of the measure decried that a minority of voters…

Abortion will be protected in Arizona until the point of fetal viability after voters approved a ballot amendment codifying those protections into the state constitution, according to a projection from…

Florida’s abortion-rights ballot initiative fell short of passing on Tuesday, leaving in place a six-week abortion ban that has helped restrict access across almost all of the Southern U.S.  The…