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News brief: access to abortion, jobless report preview, Northern Ireland election
Friday, May 06, 2022
If Roe v. Wade is over turned, certain groups of people would be disproportionately affected. Unemployment data is released Friday. Results are expected Friday in Northern Ireland's election.
Overturning Roe v. Wade could erode other rights such as same-sex marriage
Thursday, May 05, 2022
Democrats are warning that the draft opinion from Justice Samuel Alito that would strike down Roe v. Wade could threaten other rights rooted in privacy — including marriage and contraception.
News brief: Supreme Court leak, Georgia primaries, kids and the war in Ukraine
Thursday, May 05, 2022
Democrats say the leaked Supreme Court draft decision may erode more than abortion access. The leak also ups the attention on midterms. Moscow agrees to open a humanitarian corridor for civilians.
Russia is wrongfully detaining WNBA star Brittney Griner, U.S. officials say
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
It's the strongest statement by the Biden administration since Moscow authorities arrested Griner in February with what they said was hashish oil in vape cartridges in her luggage.
The Federal Reserve is expected to take a big step to try to lower inflation
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
The Fed is likely to raise interest rates by a half-percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to crack down on inflation. It's the first rate hike of that size in more than two decades.
News brief: Supreme Court abortion shift, Ohio primary, Mariupol steel plant
Wednesday, May 04, 2022
What the overturning of Roe v. Wade could mean for U.S. politics. The field is set for Ohio's U.S. Senate race in November. Some civilians and Ukrainian soldiers are still trapped in a steel plant.
The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Roe v. Wade
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
A leaked draft opinion published by Politico suggests that earlier this year a majority of Supreme Court justices supported overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide.
News brief: Leaked draft opinion, 2 state primaries, South Asia heatwave
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Politico reports that a leaked draft opinion suggests the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade. Voters in Ohio and Indiana head to the polls for primaries. A brutal heatwave is hitting South Asia.
Voters in 13 states head to the polls in May — starting with Ohio and Indiana
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
Primary season kicks off in earnest Tuesday with contests in Ohio and Indiana. Ohio's Republican Senate primary has top billing.
News brief: Mariupol evacuation, Russian troops in ex-Soviet republics, Long COVID
Monday, May 02, 2022
Fierce fighting continues in eastern Ukraine. Russia looks for ways to maintain influence beyond its borders. Scientists want to know why some COVID-19 long-haulers develop multiple medical issues.
Scientists explore why some COVID long-haulers develop multiple health issues
Monday, May 02, 2022
NIH scientists are looking for people to take part in a study on long-COVID. They want to find out why some people with lingering symptoms get better, and others end up with chronic health problems.
Russian missile hits Kyiv just after the head of the U.N. spoke there
Friday, April 29, 2022
Attacks on Ukraine's capital had mostly stopped until Thursday's missile strike. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Kyiv trying to negotiate humanitarian corridors for civilians.
News brief: missile strike, Biden wants more Ukraine funding, education poll
Friday, April 29, 2022
A missile hit Kyiv after the U.N. chief finished a news conference. President Biden urges lawmakers to send more money to Ukraine. NPR poll: most parents are happy with what schools are teaching.
Last year the FBI raided Giuliani's home. A year later he's still under investigation
Thursday, April 28, 2022
One year after the raid on Rudy Giuliani's home and office, we look at his career from prosecutor, to mayor, to Donald Trump's lawyer, to target of an investigation by the office he used to lead.
News brief: Russia cuts gas exports, Title 42 hearing, GDP preview
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Moscow cut off all energy supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. A federal judge blocks Title 42, a pandemic immigration policy, from being rolled back. New economic data is released Thursday morning.
A cruise ship in Tallinn, Estonia, is housing Ukrainian refugees
Friday, April 22, 2022
More than 5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia invaded. Tens of thousands are in Estonia, where people remember what it was like to be occupied by the former Soviet Union.
News brief: Russian attacks, Marjorie Taylor Green hearing, Florida Vs. Disney
Friday, April 22, 2022
The Russia-Ukraine war. Florida's legislature voted to strip Disney World of its self-governing status. A hearing will decide if GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene should be disqualified from office.
Cypress Hill's impact comes into focus in new documentary
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Cypress Hill's '90s sensational hit "Insane in the Brain" is also the title of a new Showtime documentary out this week about the hip-hop group.
News brief: Mariupol resistance, drug overdose deaths, mask mandate appeal
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Russia says it controls most of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. The White House has a plan to reduce drug overdose deaths. The Justice Department will appeal the mask ruling by a federal judge.
The White House has a strategy for reducing drug overdose deaths
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Drug overdose deaths are at a record high — more than 100,000 in the latest single year. And the Biden administration has a plan to slow that epidemic by emphasizing harm reduction.