Judges in Florida and Kentucky have moved to block those states from enforcing bans or restrictions on abortion after the US Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision.
The suspected driver of a truck packed with dozens of migrants who died in blazing heat during a Texas smuggling attempt was allegedly under the influence of methamphetamine when police encountered him, a US lawmaker told Reuters.
At least 17 people have been killed and dozens wounded in missile strikes on Ukraine’s Odessa region, a day after Russian troops abandoned positions on a strategic island.
Two teenagers bonded over high school Model United Nations. A decade later, one is in self-exile. The other waits for her and their other friends to return to the Hong Kong they once knew.
More than 300,000 civilians were killed in one decade in Syria, the “highest estimate yet of conflict-related deaths” in a civil war that started in 2011, according to the United Nations.
China’s president says the “one country, two systems” framework is working — even as recent changes have all but eliminated dissenting voices in the territory.