House Approves Autism Therapy Coverage, Monitors Church Day Cares
Members of the state House of Representatives on Thursday passed two bills many parents were watching: the first would increase oversight of religious day care centers, where children have been subject to numerous incidents of abuse and neglect. Currently, religious child care centers are exempt from state licensing requirements.
And state Rep. Jim Patterson sponsored the other bill, which would require insurance companies to cover autism therapy. As Don Dailey, host of Alabama Public Television’s Capitol Journal tells WBHM’s Gigi Douban, that bill passed unanimously.
Mississippi executes the longest-serving man on the state’s death row for 1976 killing
Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom scheme.
Key takeaways from the Trump-dominated NATO summit
NATO's summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday has been described as "transformational" and "historic."
Trump administration sues all of Maryland’s federal judges over deportation order
The action lays bare the administration's attempt to exert its will over immigration enforcement, and a growing anger at federal judges who have blocked executive branch actions they see as lawless.
In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors
U.S. District Judge William Alsup's ruling this week, in a case brought by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson last year, opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train their large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.
RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine group over ‘vaccine safety’ issues
The secretary of health and human services said that funding will be curtailed until Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, takes into account the science of vaccine safety in its campaigns.
Senators question Trump plan to kill federal funds for PBS, NPR and some foreign aid
Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee pushed back against the Trump administration's bid to rescind federal funding for public broadcasting and international aid programs.
