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The Supreme Court’s decision to end the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion has catapulted businesses of all types into the most divisive corner of politics. Some companies that stayed silent last month — when a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to Politico — spoke up for the first time Friday, including The Walt Disney Company, which said it will reimburse employees who must travel out of state to get an abortion.

Highlights of the bipartisan gun violence bill that President Joe Biden signed on Saturday:. Expanded background checks: State and local juvenile and mental health records of gun purchasers will be part of federal background checks for buyers age 18 to 20. Three-day maximum for gathering records will be lengthened to up to 10 days to search juvenile data. If 10 days lapse without a resolution, the sale will go through.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. “Time is of the essence. Lives...

ST. LOUIS- Within hours of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, leaving legality of abortion to individual states, the last remaining abortion clinic in Missouri became divided ground, split between those celebrating the ruling and those protesting the loss of a right that had been protected for half a century.

When the high court’s conservative majority struck down Roe v. Wade on Friday, the Hope Medical Center for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, was packed with patients seeking care. Some were already in the center’s waiting rooms. Hundreds more were scheduled for the next two weeks. But with Roe...

A federal court on Friday temporarily blocked the government’s order for Juul to stop selling its electronic cigarettes. Juul had filed an emergency motion earlier Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington so it can appeal the sales ban, and the court later granted the request. The...

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday the Group of Seven leading economic powers was committed to continuing their support for Ukraine. Watch Blinken’s remarks in the player above. After speaking with fellow G7 members ahead of a meeting next week Blinken said leaders had agreed to...

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As the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, elected leaders and abortion-rights activists in the nation’s most populated state say they’re not giving up the fight. Watch Newsom’s remarks in the player above. Abortion will still be legal in California prior to...

Congress passed a bill Friday that aims to keep up the expanded, pandemic-era distribution of free meals for all students this summer. Final passage of the Keep Kids Fed Act in the U.S. House came less than a week before rule changes for child nutrition programs were set to expire June 30.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Heat waves and drought gripping California highlight the urgency to slash fossil fuel use and remove planet-warming emissions from the air, a top state official said Thursday during discussions of a new plan for the state to reach its climate goals. “I think every single...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday launched a formal partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing offshore wind industry, a key element of President Joe Biden‘s plan for climate change. Biden, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other top administration officials met with governors,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Supreme Court ending the constitutional protections for abortion, four Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to investigate Apple and Google for allegedly deceiving millions of mobile phone users by collecting and selling their personal data. The decision Friday by the court’s conservative majority to...

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, eliminating constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for 50 years. Watch the special report in the player above. PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff anchored a special report on the impact of this legal and cultural...

Religious Americans are deeply divided in their views on abortion, and reactions from faith leaders ranged from elation to anger after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide. The ruling issued Friday was hailed by leading Catholic bishops, even though...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion immediately stirred alarm Friday among LGBTQ advocates, who feared that the ruling could someday allow a rollback of legal protections for gay relationships, including the right for same-sex couples to marry. In the court’s majority opinion overturning the 1973...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House sent President Joe Biden the most wide-ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades on Friday, a measured compromise that at once illustrates progress on the long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists. The Democratic-led chamber approved the election-year legislation on...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The European Union’s decision to make Ukraine a candidate for EU membership offered war-weary Ukrainians a morale boost and hope of a more secure future Friday as the country’s military ordered its fighters to retreat from a key city in the eastern Donbas region.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling it “an evisceration of Americans’ rights” and a “slap in the face of women.”. Watch Pelosi’s remarks in the player above. Speaking at the U.S. Capitol Friday, Pelosi...