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'We're not going back': Hillary Clinton speaks out on abortion rights
Paul Morigi/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Reproductive rights were top of mind for Hillary Clinton and others at the grand opening of the new Global Embassy for Women in Washington, D.C., on Thurs...
May 05, 2022
DHS plays defense over Disinformation Governance Board
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has spent much of this week defending the department's newly established Disinformation Governance Boar...
May 05, 2022
US officials push back on report its intel helping Ukraine target Russian generals
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. officials on Thursday pushed back on a New York Times report that said the U.S. provided Ukraine intelligence that helped it target and kill Russian ge...
May 05, 2022
Abortion in US with no Roe v. Wade would get very complicated, attorney Kathryn Kolbert says
Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney Kathryn Kolbert has spent a majority of her career thinking about the after-effects on reproductive rights if the Supreme Court was to...
May 05, 2022
Jen Psaki leaving White House, Biden names 1st Black, openly gay press secretary as replacement
Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- After a year and a half at the podium, White House press secretary Jen Psaki is planning to leave the White House on May 13, and her current deputy, Karine ...
May 05, 2022
Senate Democrats tee up likely doomed vote on protecting nationwide abortion access
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate will take a procedural vote to start debate on codifying abortion rights next week, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday. Democrats h...
May 05, 2022
Bill to make Juneteenth a holiday moves to governor's desk
Dennis Macdonald/Getty Images(HARTFORD, Conn.) -- Connecticut is on the path to becoming the latest state to officially recognize Juneteenth, the day the last enslaved Black people in Texas were freed...
May 05, 2022
High fence erected outside Supreme Court as abortion-related protests continue
Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A new, imposing eight-foot-high fence was erected overnight at the U.S. Supreme Court in the wake of protests over a bombshell draft opinion on abort...
May 05, 2022
Here's where abortion will be protected if Roe v. Wade is overturned
Al Drago/Bloomberg Creative Photos/FILE(WASHINGTON) -- State governments across the country are taking steps to firm up abortion rights if the Supreme Court decides to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landma...
May 04, 2022
Mississippi abortion clinic director responds to SCOTUS draft: 'It didn't come as a shock to a lot of us here'
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Abortion-rights advocates are responding to the leaked draft opinion of the Supreme Court majority opinion on the pending Mississippi abortion case that was f...
May 04, 2022
