JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — In the heart of Jackson Hole, as the summer sun blazed and thunderclouds slunk behind Snow King Mountain, nearly 250 people gathered Thursday night beneath the iconic antler arches of the town square to advocate for reproductive rights in Wyoming.

On the day it was set to go into effect, Wyoming’s near-total abortion ban was temporarily blocked by a state judge siding with a coalition of abortion providers and state residents, who argued in a lawsuit filed Monday that the ban violates Wyoming’s constitution.

A coalition of Wyoming abortion providers, state residents and a prominent abortion fund filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to halt enforcement of the state’s near-total abortion ban, set to take effect Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — During Thursday’s primetime hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, the panel’s ninth and final public presentation until the fall, lawmakers scrutinized every second of former President Donald Trump’s response to the violence at the U.S. Capitol — or lack thereof.

WASHINGTON —The most startling revelations from Tuesday’s hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection arrived in its final moments: In recent days, the committee said, former President Donald Trump phoned a committee witness in what they believe was likely an attempt to influence the individual’s testimony.

WASHINGTON — In a ceremony at the White House on Thursday, President Joe Biden bestowed former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), 90, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Thursday night may have marked the first time that the five candidates vying for the Republican nomination to represent Wyoming’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives were all in the same room together, but it was a different politician who dominated the conversation: former President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON — Even before the beginning of Thursday’s hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, some in former President Donald Trump’s orbit had cause for concern.

WASHINGTON — Over nearly three hours of emotional testimony Tuesday, witnesses before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection detailed the extreme measures that former President Donald Trump and his allies took to pressure them to overturn the 2020 election.

WASHINGTON—In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when then-Vice President Mike Pence was set to certify President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, officials supporting former President Donald Trump’s unverified claims of widespread election fraud were warned repeatedly that their plans to deny the outcome of the election had the potential to unleash violence and yet they proceeded with those designs anyway, officials testified Thursday.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection detailed Monday their findings into the origins of what they called the “big lie,” the unsubstantiated allegation by former President Donald Trump and others in his orbit that the 2020 presidential election was plagued by voter fraud and that Trump, not President Joe Biden, was the legitimate winner.