Anna Johansen Brown is features editor for The World and Everything in It and based in Chicago. A former speech and debate coach, she graduated from the World Journalism Institute in 2018. Follow Anna on Twitter @AnnaJohansen_.
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The Supreme Court extends availability of an abortion drug while considering restrictions; 300 are dead in Sudan as fighting continues; two teens and one adult have been charged following a mass shooting in Alabama; Kevin McCarthy unveils budget plan to raise the national debt limit; Florida expands parental rights law to cover 4th-12th grade classes on human sexuality; and North Korea says it will soon launch its first spy satellite
The Snowflakes program is giving frozen embryos a shot at life, and family
Protests across the country as courts fight over the fate of abortion drug mifepristone; rival generals escalate violent clash in Sudan; a shooting in Dadeville, Alabama leaves four dead; Finland is building a fence along its border with Russia to deter illegal immigration; Japan’s Prime Minister unharmed after an attack on Saturday; a Delaware jury will hear a defamation case against Fox News today; and gas prices are on the rise again
An infant hospice center in Asheville, NC, helps families celebrate the short lives of babies born with severe fetal abnormalities
A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former President Trump, but has not yet indicated the charges; Police in Nashville release the 911 call reporting Monday’s shooting at Covenant School; a train carrying ethanol fuel derailed in Minnesota; A Texas overturns part of Obamacare; American intelligence reports that Russia may be bartering for weapons from North Korea in exchange for food; Russia has detained a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges; and the Pope is recovering from a respiratory infection
Tomorrow marks 18 years since the death of the woman at the center of a controversy over the right of brain-damaged people to live…or die
Law enforcement has not yet concluded what the Nashville shooter’s motive was in killing students and staff at Covenant School, federal regulators say Silicon Valley Bank failed due to its poor risk management; a federal judge is requiring former VP Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury against Donald Trump; forty people died in a fire at a migrant holding center in Juarez, Mexico; House Speaker Kevin McCarthy calls on President Biden to start talks on raising the debt ceiling; and the House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Tony Blinken for documents related to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
The World Athletic Council rules that men identifying as women will not be allowed to participate in women’s sports, Wyoming abortion ban on hold while judge considers if fetuses are human, Congress considers regulating TikTik in the US, Biden is in Canada for the first time as President, House subcommittee investigates the Department of Justice’s crackdown on parents’ free speech during the pandemic, and the suspected school shooter in Denver has been found dead, and some Ukrainian children previously deported to Russia have been returned.
The Fed raises rates again, despite the fallout from recent bank failures; school administrators wounded in a shooting in Denver; three senators still out of commission due to injuries and illness; Senators grill Norfolk Southern leadership in a hearing on Capitol Hill; LA school staff members hit day three of strike; California hit with more storms; Russia continues using explosive drones in civilian areas in Ukraine; and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moves to pass parental rights law through Florida's Department of Education
Putin visits captured Ukrainian territory for the first time, Xi is set to visit Moscow this week, Swiss UBS is buying Credit Suisse, Trump announces possibility of arrest depending on the outcome of a Manhattan grand jury, Wyoming bans abortion pills, 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocks Ecuador, and protests in France turn violent after the Macron government unilaterally passes pension reform without a parliamentary vote.
