6/24: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Congress is set to pass bipartisan gun control legislation.

A majority of the Supreme Court ruled that each state should decide whether abortion should be legal or illegal. The 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion has been wiped away. The first major gun control legislation in decades is expected to get final approval in Congress later today. It's already passed the senate with bipartisan support, and President Biden plans to sign it into law. The Supreme Court moved in the other direction on gun control yesterday -- with a 6-to-3 decision to throw out a New York law, regulating who can carry a concealed firearm. New revelations about how far former President Trump was willing to go -- to keep himself in power after losing the 2020 election. A new study on COVID, out this morning, estimates that vaccines saved more than 20 million lives in one year around the world. The war in Ukraine is having global ripple effects.

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