Gov. JB Pritzker signs controversial Illinois medical aid-in-dying law amid strong debate and opposition • Gov. JB Pritzker signs bill that aims to make it easier to find therapists who take insurance
The Spin Friday, December 12, 2025 | | |
| | | | | After Indiana defeated a mid-census redistricting bill Thursday, President Donald Trump downplayed the loss, while Gov. Mike Braun and Lieutenant Gov. Micah Beckwith alluded to potential repercussions from the Trump administration. | | | | | Illinois now joins at least 10 other states, among them California, Hawaii, Colorado and Oregon, in allowing medical aid in dying. | | | | | The new law, which will take full effect in January 2027, creates a formula outlining how much insurers must pay therapists for their services and aims to cut red tape that therapists say has put them off working with insurers. | | | | | President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at blocking states from crafting their own regulations for artificial intelligence, saying the industry is at risk of being stifled by a patchwork of onerous rules. | | | | | Speaker Johnson is in a last-minute sprint to develop a Republican alternative, as his party refuses to extend tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act. | | | | | A pair of lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin are on track to be resolved after the 2026 midterms. | | | | | The U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country. | | | | | Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prince Andrew. | | | |