Texas federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued a ruling Friday on medication abortion drug mifepristone, saying he will suspend the US Food and Drug Administration's two-decade-old approval of it.
Two Democratic members of the Tennessee House of Representatives were expelled while a third member was spared in an ousting by Republican lawmakers that was decried by the trio as oppressive, vindictive and racially motivated.
"This is far greater than mere ethics violations; it's about the perceived legitimacy of the Supreme Court," one former conservative federal judge said.
Russian investigators have formally charged Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich with espionage, Russian state media reported Friday, adding he denied the accusations.
In an extraordinary, emotionally charged session marked by tense exchanges and punctuated by boos and chants from onlookers, Tennessee's Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to expel two Black lawmakers -- but failed to oust a third representative -- a week after the three Democrats led a gun reform protest in the chamber.
Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Nashville on Friday where she delivered an impassioned speech advocating for gun control and met with a pair of state lawmakers who were expelled from the General Assembly after protesting on the state House floor.
China has slapped sanctions on two American organizations that hosted Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen during her recent travel in the United States, which Beijing had fiercely condemned.
It was a Chinese dream driven by the same sort of ambition that has seen this country rise from poverty to the world's second-largest economy in the space of just a few decades.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told French President Emmanuel Macron that it is "in nobody's interest for the Ukraine war to drag on," according to a readout published by Chinese state media.
Magnus Carlsen lost against Hikaru Nakamura in the losers final of the Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2023 thanks to a dramatic slip of his mouse in what is his last tournament as the world champion.
The federal judge overseeing a high-profile challenge to the FDA's two-decade-old approval of certain drugs used to terminate a pregnancy is a deeply conservative jurist with a proclivity for siding with plaintiffs looking to roll back reproductive and LGBTQ rights or block key Biden administration policies.