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Supreme Court abortion decision faces churn of draft opinions, dissents
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- More than 110 days after Justice Samuel Alito authored a first draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court deliberations over a final ruling ...
Jun 03, 2022
Texas governor says schools should conduct weekly door checks in wake of shooting
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, FILE(AUSTTIN, Texas) -- Gov. Greg Abbott has suggested that schools conduct weekly door checks, among other security measures, in the wake of a deadly mass shooting a...
Jun 02, 2022
Where Supreme Court stands on Second Amendment
Bloomberg Creative Photos via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A spate of deadly gun attacks across the country has reignited the national debate on gun reform in the United States. Lawmakers are argui...
Jun 02, 2022
Biden calls for ban on assault weapons: 'This time we must actually do something'
STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As mass shootings continue to rock the nation, President Joe Biden delivered prime-time remarks on guns Thursday evening, imploring the nation to "...
Jun 02, 2022
Lawmakers continue talks but Biden 'not confident' Congress can pass gun reform
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With another mass shooting at a hospital complex in Tulsa on Wednesday, and as families in Uvalde are still holding funerals for loved ones massacred last wee...
Jun 02, 2022
Is 'stare decisis' dead? How the Supreme Court view of precedent is evolving
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In thousands of rulings over its storied history, the U.S. Supreme Court has broken with stare decisis, the doctrine of respecting prior decisions, just 145 tim...
Jun 02, 2022
Biden admits he didn't foresee impact of Abbott's shutdown on already growing baby formula shortage
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A White House event on Wednesday meant to highlight the action President Joe Biden is taking to deal with the nation's baby formula shortage turned into a pol...
Jun 02, 2022
White House marks Pride Month amid wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- The White House says it will celebrate Pride Month this June by signaling support for the LGBTQ community an...
Jun 01, 2022
'Feckless' ammunition laws under scrutiny following Uvalde, other mass shootings
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When an 18-year-old shooter arrived last week at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas -- where he ultimately killed 21 people, including 1...
Jun 01, 2022
Biden's Coast Guard pick becomes first woman to lead a military branch
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Adm. Linda Fagan became the first woman to lead a branch of the U.S. military when she was sworn in as commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard at a sunny cerem...
Jun 01, 2022
