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Gun rights group sues to stop groundbreaking San Jose gun law
Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images(SAN JOSE, Calif.) -- The National Association for Gun Rights filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, California, seeking to end a rul...
Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News Jan 27, 2022

US, NATO using military moves to send message to Russia over Ukraine
Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Wednesday's arrival of American F-15 fighters in Estonia to join an ongoing NATO air policing mission over the Baltics would normally not ga...
Luis Martinez, ABC News Jan 27, 2022

Biden honors retiring Justice Breyer, commits to nominate Black woman to replace him on Supreme Court
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and Justice Stephen Breyer appeared together Thursday at the White House to announce Breyer's retirement from the Supreme Court, clearing t...
Libby Cathey, ABC News Jan 27, 2022

Pulitzer-prize winning Holocaust book, 'Maus,' joins list of banned books in libraries, schools
Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images/FILE(MCMINN COUNTY, Tenn.) -- "Maus," a Pulitzer-winning book about the Holocaust, has been banned in one Tennessee school district. The graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, ch...
Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News Jan 27, 2022

Russia maybe 'not serious' about diplomacy on Ukraine but ball in its court: Blinken
Pool via ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking at the State Department on Wednesday, confirmed the U.S. had delivered a written response to Moscow security demands as Rus...
Conor Finnegan and Libby Cathey, ABC News Jan 26, 2022

Biden, lawmakers prepare for Supreme Court vacancy, react to Breyer's retirement
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday declined to expand on reports Justice Stephen Breyer would be retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of the current term, ...
Libby Cathey and Allison Pecorin, ABC News Jan 26, 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson eyed as potential replacement to Justice Stephen Breyer
Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at the end of the current term, one name keeps rising to the top of the list of potential repl...
Devin Dwyer, ABC News Jan 26, 2022

Fed signals rate hikes coming 'soon' amid inflation concerns
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Officials at the Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled that they could "soon" raise interest rates for the first time in three years, as inflation concerns ...
Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News Jan 26, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retiring
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the most senior member of the U.S. Supreme Court's liberal wing and staunch defender of a nonpartisan judiciary, will retire from the b...
Devin Dwyer, ABC News Jan 26, 2022

Possible witness in sex trafficking probe involving Matt Gaetz takes plea
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A close friend and former government employee of Joel Greenberg, Joe Ellicott, is set to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and distribution of a...
Will Steakin and Alexander Mallin, ABC News Jan 26, 2022
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