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The Supreme Court made its most dramatic intervention in American life in decades Friday, striking down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had provided a constitutional right to abortion. |
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The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade catapulted the issue of abortion rights directly into the midterms campaign on Friday, with Democrats seeking to put the issue front and center. |
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BY AMIE PARNES AND MORGAN CHALFANT |
Democrats say President Biden needs to take a more forceful approach in leading the charge on abortion rights and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade in order to make it a dominant issue in this fall's midterm elections. |
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Saturday that President Biden "does not agree with" expanding the Supreme Court after it ruled a day before to eliminate the constitutional right to abortion. |
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BY JARED GANS AND CHLOE FOLMAR |
The governors of Massachusetts and Minnesota have signed executive orders to implement legal protections for reproductive health care providers who serve out-of-state residents, and for those who come to their states seeking such care. |
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Friday filed a motion asking for the state's high court to quickly take up her lawsuit, which aims to stop a decades-old abortion ban from being enforced and considers abortion a constitutional right in the state. |
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President Biden on Saturday signed into law the most wide-ranging gun violence prevention bill that Congress has passed in nearly 30 years. |
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BY MORGAN CHALFANT AND LAURA KELLY |
President Biden is heading to Europe, leaving a nation in turmoil over abortion rights to take on dueling missions abroad: find ways to lower food and gas prices while keeping allies unified in their pressure campaign against Russia's war in Ukraine. |
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Former President Trump acknowledged he was scared when he discovered he had COVID-19 given how many friends of his had died during the pandemic, he told a British documentarian filming him in the months leading up to Jan. 6. |
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Airlines and passengers are suffering through a chaotic post-pandemic phase that has seen the industry struggle to deal with surging demand, leaving many passengers unhappy about everything from the prices of their tickets to aggravation over whether they'll reach their destination. |
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OPINION | The news was bleak in Friday's Supreme Court holding in Dobbs v. Jackson, and I am not here to tell you otherwise. But the opinion itself contains a few glimmers worth analyzing. One is from Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion: "For example, may a State bar a resident of that State from traveling to another State to obtain an abortion? In my view, the answer is no, based on the constitutional right to interstate travel." |
BY AMY BARNHORST AND GAREN WINTEMUTE |
OPINION | The Senate has reached an agreement on a bill to include support for the passage and implementation of red flag laws, properly known as extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws, in states across the country. As a psychiatrist and an emergency physician in California, we are breathing sighs of relief. These orders fill a gap in our existing system – and when one of our patients falls through that gap, the consequences can be lethal. |
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On the heels of their greatest victory, antiabortion activists are eager to capitalize on their momentum by enshrining constitutional abortion bans, pushing Congress to pass a national prohibition, blocking abortion pills, and limiting people's ability to get abortions across state lines. |
A slow-burning hostility to constitutional abortion rights runs through the career of the author of the Supreme Court opinion overturning them. |
At 88, Gloria Steinem has long been the nation's most visible feminist and advocate for women's rights. But at 22, she was a frightened American in London getting an illegal abortion of a pregnancy so unwanted, she actually tried to throw herself down the stairs to end it. |
BY SARAH MARSH AND ANDREA SHALAL |
Members of the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Sunday announced a ban on imports of Russian gold as the G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps begins under the shadow of the war in Ukraine and consequences ranging from energy shortages to a food crisis. |
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