In a rare 8-to-1 verdict, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Republican attorney general of Kentucky could argue an abortion case his state had previously declined to defend under a Democrat.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a new law on Thursday banning biological males who identify as females from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is said to be planning public executions in conquered Ukrainian cities as part of his sadistic campaign to break the morale of Ukraine’s citizens.

Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have announced the creation of the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act, which will be paired with a similar act soon to be introduced in the House by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).

Florida’s Republican-led Senate on Thursday gave final passage to a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, bringing the state closer to ratifying a gestational limit presently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The results of a new study published this week in the “Nature Medicine” journal shows there is a promising new treatment for Type 1 diabetes. 

Russian forces on Thursday seized Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – the largest such facility in Europe. A nearby training facility caught fire during intense fighting, raising fears of a nuclear disaster experts say would be 10 times worse than Chernobyl, the site of a 1986 nuclear accident considered the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Democrats appear to be floating a new narrative that Russia’s war on Ukraine is somehow linked to the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot.