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Flags on the Senate floor at the Oregon State Capitol, May 18, 2021 in Salem, Ore. Voters could be looking at one or several ballot measures next year to rein in campaign finance contributions in Oregon.

These are some of the new laws that will go into effect in Oregon on Jan. 1

These new laws will affect issues ranging from education to workers’ compensation.

Southwest Airlines has canceled more than 15,000 flights in the last week and has lost thousands of bags.

Southwest Airlines' #epicfail takes social media by storm

Thousands of cancellations, lost bags and endless lines have angry customers taking to social media to voice their discontent.

Occidental College in Los Angeles on Dec. 20, 2022.

California colleges experiment with restorative justice in sexual assault cases

Some California colleges are responding to campus sexual assault and harassment with restorative justice: a process that brings together the student who was harmed, the person who harmed them and the community to seek solutions.

Bill Cosby at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., on the first day of sentencing in his sexual assault trial on Sept. 24, 2018.

Bill Cosby plans to tour in 2023 even as he faces a new sexual assault lawsuit

The news of his tour plans comes just weeks after five women filed another sexual assault lawsuit against the 85-year-old comedian.

A man walks past a National Health Service sign in 2007 in London. The NHS offers services at the Askern Medical Practice in Doncaster, whose patients mistakenly received text messages informing them of a terminal lung cancer diagnosis.

A U.K. medical office mistakenly sent patients a text message with a cancer diagnosis

The Christmas Eve message informing patients of a terminal lung cancer diagnosis was followed by a second text apologizing for the error and saying the office meant to offer them holiday greetings.

Joey DeFrancesco arrives for the 60th Grammy Awards on January 28, 2018, in New York. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Jazz Night In America remembers the artists we've lost

Jazz Night In America's video tribute to the artists lost in 2022.

Mary Warwick, wildlife director for the Houston Humane Society, holds a Mexican free-tailed bat as it recovers from last week's freeze on Tuesday, Dec. 27 in Houston. The freezing temperatures caused the bats to go into hypothermic shock, lose their grip on their habitat and fall to the ground. Over 1500 bats were rescued from the Waugh Street Bridge and in Pearland since Friday.

1,600 bats fell to the ground during Houston's cold snap. Here's how they were saved

After hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats went into hypothermic shock during the city's recent cold snap, they lost their grip and fell. But they found a temporary home: the attic of Mary Warwick.

British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood waves to the audience after presenting her fashion collection at Milan Fashion Week in 2012. Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.

Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81

Westwood's fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm.

A copy of <em>The Birmingham News</em> rests on a rack at the downtown public library in Birmingham, Ala. The company that runs the newspaper and two sister papers says it will permanently stop print publication after Feb. 26, 2023.

For 3 big Alabama newspapers, the presses are grinding to a halt

The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register will soon go all-digital. In Birmingham, where people have been reading the paper since the late 1800s, the news hasn't been easy.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is being hit hard by climate change, but new research is showing how some corals are more resilient to heat.

How can coral reefs deal with climate change? Get better roommates

Hotter temperatures are threatening coral reefs worldwide. Now, scientists are pinpointing how some "super corals" are better able to withstand the heat.

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