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A federal judge on Wednesday accepted a plea deal from former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who last year was found guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, The Washington Post reports.

After a draft opinion of the Supreme Court's plan to overturn landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade was leaked, The Guardian says "legal experts believe other laws about individual autonomy may be in danger, including the right to access contraception." 

Twitter's incoming new owner says the platform will remain free for "casual users" — but for some others, it could be a different story. 

Is there anything less rock 'n' roll than a Hall of Fame that displays guitars, setlists, and other detritus as if they were sacred relics? If so, it has to be the induction ceremonies, where senior citizens wearing bizarre outfits shuffle through awkward speeches and pallid versions of long ago hits. Stranger still are the video montages of the dead that often feature in the ceremonies. Supposed to be celebrations of artistic achievement and the vitality of the genre, they're more like time capsules from a distant epoch. Читать дальше...

Whether she likes it or not, Dolly Parton is headed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Abortion just became a top electoral issue, thanks to a leaked draft opinion in which Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, purporting to speak for a majority of the court, lustily tears down Roe v. Wade, ending 49 years of constitutionally protected abortion rights. 

In a big victory for former President Donald Trump, and an even bigger one for those on the right pushing a "conservative realignment" fusing economic populism and foreign policy restraint with social conservatism, Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance won the Republican nomination for Senate in Ohio.

Before a federal judge's surprising injunction at the end of April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had extended its mask mandate for travel through May 3. But now that the date has come and passed, where does the mandate stand, and what other COVID-related travel restrictions still remain? Here's everything you need to know:

The Department of Homeland Security is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" in order to combat the spread of misleading information coming from Russia and human smugglers. Here's everything you need to know:

I didn't see it coming. When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization last year, I assumed the majority of justices would find a way to uphold a constitutional right to abortion while paring back its practical application. Such an outcome seemed consistent with Chief Justice Roberts' careful and often strained efforts to prevent the court from taking sides in major political disputes. 

On Monday, Politico published a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that created a federal constitutional right to abortion. Here's what it could mean for the future of the Republican Party and the pro-life movement:

Americans are opposed to the Supreme Court overturning the landmark 1973 abortion case Roe v. Wade by "a roughly 2-to-1" margin in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, the Post reports. The court has already decided to strike down Roe, according to a draft majority opinion published Monday night by Politico. When the Post-ABC poll was conducted last week, 54 percent said Roe should be upheld, 28 said it should be overturned, and 18 percent had no opinion. 

The Supreme Court on Tuesday verified the authenticity of a draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade published by Politico on Monday night, but emphasized that the opinion, by Justice Samuel Alito, is neither the final opinion or the final position of any of the justices on the court. Still, according to Politico, at least four other justices agreed with Alito's opinion in February, suggesting it could be the new law of the land once published. 

Former acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf inappropriately interfered with a 2020 intelligence assessment that Russia was trying to meddle in the 2020 election, delaying and making changes to the report that "appear to be based in part on political considerations," according to a report by the department's inspector general released Tuesday. 

J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and author of the memoir Hillbilly Elegy, won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio on Tuesday night, NBC News, The New York Times, and The Associated Press project.

Mississippi's lone abortion clinic, the Jackson Women's Health Organization, will continue to offer services if Roe v. Wade is overturned, with director Shannon Brewer vowing to "fight for women regardless."

A controversial location data firm known as SafeGraph is selling information revealing where groups of people visiting family planning or abortion clinics such as Planned Parenthood came from, "how long they stayed there, and where they then went afterwards," Vice's Motherboard reports.

Documents obtained by Vice News' Motherboard reveal that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention purchased access to the phone data of millions of Americans, and not just for COVID-19 tracking.