Three court rulings across the U.S. this week delved into laws restricting the rights of transgender kids, including the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has gotten involved in a ban on gender-affirming care.
Plans by Texas to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally were again on hold Wednesday after setting off uncertainty along the border and anger from Mexico flared during a brief few hours that the law was allowed to take effect.
Vladimir Putin wins re-election in Russia, the Supreme Court takes up a dispute over social media security, and Lyft and Uber announce their intention to halt operations in Minneapolis. Reporter Daniela Kopřivová has today’s News in :90.
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot.
The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments today over President Biden’s student debt relief plan, which impacts millions of borrowers who could see their loans wiped away or reduced. The death toll rose to 62 today in the migrant tragedy off Italy’s southern coast after rescue crews recovered three more bodies. Bella Adams has today’s news in :90.
On Monday, Russia unleashed what Ukraine called a “massive missile attack” across the country. Bob McGrath, an actor, musician and children’s author widely known for his portrayal of one of the first regular characters on the children’s show “Sesame Street” has died at the age of 90. The Supreme Court is hearing the case Monday of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples. Miles Schiffer has todays News in :90.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans inched closer to a narrow House majority Wednesday, while control of the Senate hinged on a few tight races in a midterm election that defied expectations of sweeping conservative victories driven by frustration over inflation and President Joe Biden’s leadership.
Russian forces strafed Ukraine with missiles and munition-carrying drones, the Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof which challenged his death sentence and conviction and a memorial to deceased St. Thomas students was dedicated outside the chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas. Isabelle Lynch has today’s News in :90.
St. Thomas students gathered at Summit and Cretin avenues Thursday to protest a leaked Supreme Court draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that established a women’s ability to choose to have an abortion as a constitutional right.
Citizens rallied in front of the Minnesota Capitol building in St. Paul Tuesday following a leaked Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide. Scout Mason and Rori West have the story.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted a “radical” Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling t hat has stood for a half century. The court cautioned no final decision had been made, but Biden warned that other privacy rights including same-sex marriage and birth control are at risk if the justices follow through.
The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the high court.
Two of the five people in the Cambridge house explosion were seriously injured, the Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place and children as young as 3 will start receiving the COVID-19 vaccines in China. Reporter Jonathan Rosario has today’s News in :90.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas can continue banning most abortions after a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Biden administration’s latest attempt to undo a novel law that has become the nation’s biggest curb to abortion in nearly 50 years.
