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The Supreme Court overturned a ruling that legalized the right to abortion 50 years ago across the country.
The Supreme Court annulled the case of Roe v. Wade on Friday, considering that the federal constitutional right to abortion no longer exists.

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump on June 9 night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an "attempted coup" and a direct result of the defeated president's effort to overturn the 2020 election.

The storm caused a major collapse in traffic and led to the closure of schools in several American states, while thousands of people were left without electricity.
Winter and ice storm warnings are in effect in large part of America, from Texas to the Midwest and New England, the National Weather Service said.

About 100 people were killed in the US state of Kentucky after a devastating tornado on Friday versus Saturday local time. This was announced by the Governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear in Mayfield - the place that is considered to have suffered the most, BNR reported.

In the biggest challenge to abortion rights in decades, the Supreme Court's conservative majority on Dec. 1 signaled they would allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy and may even overturn the nationwide right that has existed for nearly 50 years.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Nov. 6 halted a vaccine mandate by President Joe Biden's administration that is intended to push millions of workers at businesses with more than 100 employees into getting COVID-19 shots.

With the motto "Hands off our bodies", crowds of people roamed the streets across the country yesterday to demonstrate against the prevailing abortion laws.

Thousands of people demonstrated for the right to abortion on Saturday in the US capital Washington and other cities in the country.

The abortion rights battle takes to the streets across America on Oct. 2, with hundreds of demonstrations planned as part of a new "Women's March" aimed at countering an unprecedented conservative offensive to restrict the termination of pregnancies.

Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more damage than in the 1970s, the United Nations weather agency reports.

More than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi, including all of New Orleans, were left without power on Monday, as Ida, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the US mainland, pushed through on Sunday, AP reported. The damage was so extensive that officials warned it could be weeks before the power grid was repaired.