Idaho is seeking to join Texas with a proposed bill that would allow local police to check people's immigration and make it a state crime for undocumented immigrants to enter the state. Why it matters: GOP-led states are expected to see legislation allowing them to enforce federal immigration law amid a friendly incoming Trump administration despite concerns over constitutionality.

The bill would give police in Idaho authority to charge people with misdemeanors and felonies for living in the U.S. without authorization.

Khaya Himmelman spoke to one of the 60,000 voters in North Carolina whose ballots Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is trying to get tossed out in order to steal the election from incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs, who won the race by just over 700 votes.

A Mega Millions ticket sold in Texas won $30,000, just missing the $95 million jackpot, lottery officials said. The tickets matched four winning numbers, the Mega Ball and the Megaplier, in the drawing Tuesday, Jan. 14, the Texas Lottery said.

Jaron Crane, R-Nampa, presented the legislation, which is modeled after Texas’ SB 4 — a law that ... level offense for individuals entering Idaho from a foreign nation outside of the ...

The Texas judge who previously halted approval of the nation’s most common method of abortion ruled Thursday that three states can move ahead with another attempt to roll back federal rules and make it harder for people across the U.S. to access the abortion drug mifepristone.

The Idaho bill is modeled after a Texas law, passed last year, that gives local law enforcement authority to enforce illegal entry into the U.S. The law, which a number of other states have sought ...

Nampa, introduced a bill on Tuesday to the Idaho House State Affairs Committee that replicates a 2023 Texas law creating a new crime called illegal entry. According

Proposed Idaho bill would allow police enforcement, with first offense of ‘illegal entry’ being a misdemeanor and second being a felony leading to deportation

Four Powerball tickets sold in Texas won $50,000, but just missed the $268 million jackpot, lottery officials say. The tickets matched four out of five winning Powerball numbers and the Powerball, in the drawing Saturday, Jan. 11, the Texas Lottery said.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that three states can challenge the current rules of accessibility for abortion pills.