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Here's where abortions are now banned or severely restricted

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, numerous states have banned abortion. Here are the states with bans or severe restrictions in effect, on hold or pending.

Irina Garmash, a mother of four from the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, sits on an evacuation train that has stopped in the center-eastern city of Dnipro, on July 8. The train carries residents from the eastern Donbas region fleeing war during the Russian invasion.

Riding Ukraine's last train line out of Donbas with families fleeing for their lives

Russia is fighting to conquer the entire Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. To help civilians escape, the Ukrainian railway runs a free evacuation train out of the east. Here's what it's like.

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions jumped in 2021, a threat to climate goals

The spike was attributed to a slew of causes, including behavior changes after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, but environmental advocates say it's worrisome.

Former professional handball player Catarina Esperanca Sanhala clears undergrowth before searching for landmines in a minefield in Benguela province, Angola. "It's a very different life," says Sanhala. "But I wanted a challenge."

PHOTOS: Angola thought women couldn't clear landmines. These women proved them wrong

Angola's civil war left 1,100 active minefields. The attitude had been that clearing mines is man's work until a nonprofit stepped in. Now nearly 400 women deminers tread carefully — and courageously.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told the House Judiciary Committee that "the Department of Justice has a long-standing policy of not commenting on investigations."

Garland deflects lawmakers' questions on Trump as he tries to sidestep politics

Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers he's working to keep the Justice Department out of politics after four years of chaos during the Trump presidency.

Members of the Oath Keepers on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

Oath Keepers face seditious conspiracy charges. DOJ has mixed record with such cases

In the biggest Capitol riot case yet, 11 Oath Keepers stand charged of seditious conspiracy. The government faces steep challenges in proving them guilty of the hefty and rare charges.

Superintendent Dr. Errick Greene on the first day of school in Jackson, Miss. Greene visited schools throughout the district during the first week. His first stop was at North Jackson Elementary School.

As a new year starts, schools prepare for fewer masks, more learning and joy

Schools are opening up around the country, and the third year in the shadow of a pandemic brings new challenges but also new hope.

White House Counsel Dana Remus, center, is seated next to former Sen. Doug Jones, D-Ala., right, as they listen during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

Dana Remus made legal history in the White House. Now she's moving on

Stuart Delery will replace her. Also, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will advise the White House on public engagement and Julie Rodriguez will be promoted to senior advisor.

Ukrainian farmer Mykhailo Liubchenko, 72, says he'll likely burn the field he stands in front of because unexploded ordnance makes harvesting the grain possibly fatal.

Ukraine's farmers face Russia's blockade and explosives on their lands this harvest

Farmers in Ukraine begin to harvest this year's wheat, barley and rapeseed crops as diplomats try to negotiate an end to Russia's Black Sea blockade of exports.

Rick Martínez's regional Mexican cookbook Mi Cocina is out now.

Rick Martínez brings 'rapture' to the kitchen with his new cookbook 'Mi Cocina'

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Rick Martínez about his new cookbook Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico.

Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban

The official rule: no secondary school for girls. But behind a veil of secrecy, women are opening small schools so that at least some of these teenagers are able to continue learning.

Mike Noel at the Heritage Plantation community, June 8, 2022. Noel retired and bought a home in the mobile home park and looked forward to fishing in the ocean 20 minutes away. "I thought I was moving to paradise," he says.

From floods to slime: Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, neglect them

Elderly homeowners in Florida are suing the billion dollar company that owns their mobile home park. Big companies are buying up parks around the country, but critics say residents pay the price.

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