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Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court Building on May 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS)

Draft Signals Supreme Court Shift on Civil Rights, Experts Say

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion jolted some legal experts for how it would not only upend abortion rights, but move onto shakier ground other constitutional rights … more

Michael Macagnone / CQ-Roll Call (TNS) | 5/4/22

The Food And Drug Administration has "no evidence" that people whose COVID-19 symptoms return benefit from a second course of Pfizer's Paxlovid. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/TNS)

FDA Contradicts Pfizer’s Advice on Second Course of COVID Drug

There is “no evidence” that a second course of Pfizer Inc.’s Paxlovid will help COVID-19 patients whose symptoms return after an initial course of the antiviral, a U.S. Food and … more

Robert Langreth / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/4/22

U.S. regulators are concerned about the safety of cannabis compounds taken by animals leaching into human foods like milk and eggs.(Alena Ozerova/Dreamstime/TNS)

CBD May Be Getting Into Milk and Eggs From Animals, FDA Says

U.S. regulators are concerned about the safety of cannabis compounds taken by animals leaching into human foods like milk and eggs. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a batch … more

Tiffany Kary / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/4/22

A "now hiring" sign is posted in the window of an ice cream shop in Los Angeles, California on Jan. 28, 2022. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. Companies Added 247,000 Jobs in April, ADP Data Show

U.S. companies added in April the fewest jobs in the pandemic recovery, underscoring the persistent challenges faced by small firms to increase headcount in a tight labor market. … more

Reade Pickert / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/4/22

Pro-choice activists line a police barricade in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., early on May 3, 2022. The Supreme Court is poised to strike down the right to abortion in the U.S., according to a leaked draft of a majority opinion that would shred nearly 50 years of constitutional protections. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Leaked Draft Abortion Decision Recasts 2022 Political Realm

WASHINGTON — Cameras were already set up in front of the Supreme Court building Tuesday morning, waiting for more protests, after Politico reported on a leaked draft decision in a Mississippi … more

Sandhya Raman / CQ-Roll Call (TNS) | 5/3/22

Two condors being reared at the Northern California Condor Restoration Program in Northern California spread their wings in their pen. On Tuesday, four condors were released into the wild near the Klamath River. (Northern California Condor Restoration Program/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

After More Than a Century, California Condors Soar Over Redwoods Once Again

After being pushed to the brink of extinction, California condors have returned to a slice of Northern California habitat for the first time in 130 years. On Tuesday, four of the big birds flew the … more

Nathan Solis / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/3/22

Orange County Dad Sues Because Son Couldn’t Wear Mesh Mask to School

SANTA ANA, Calif. — An Orange County father is suing his son’s high school, claiming the teen was in effect expelled for wearing a mesh face mask. Aidan Palicke, a 17-year-old junor … more

Roxana Kopetman / The Orange County Register (TNS) | 5/3/22

People ride on a MTA subway F train on March 11, 2022, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/TNS)

Please Keep Wearing Masks on Public Transit, CDC Urges

People should continue wearing masks on public transportation even though it’s no longer required by law, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. The federal … more

Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News (TNS) | 5/3/22

President Joe Biden speaks to employees at Lockheed Martin, a facility that manufactures weapon systems such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Troy, Alabama. (Julie Bennett/Getty Images/TNS)

Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles Get Biden Nod as Ukraine Depletes U.S. Stash

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden stressed the importance of U.S. and allied weapons for Ukraine’s defense Tuesday with a visit to a Lockheed Martin Corp. plant making Javelin anti-tank … more

Justin Sink, Tony Capaccio and Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 5/3/22

Oksana Balandina (right), who lost both legs to a mine, danced with her new husband, Viktor Vasyliv (left), at their hospital wedding in Lviv, in western Ukraine. (First Medical Union of Lviv/TNS)

'You Can't Postpone Living': Double-Amputee War Victim's Wedding Heartens Ukraine

LVIV, Ukraine — In the video's opening frame, the first glimpse of them, it could almost be any bride and groom. Any wedding dance, if a wartime one. The setting is a hospital ward. The … more

Laura King / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/3/22

Passengers make their way through Delta Airlines Terminal Two at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

New Coronavirus Variants Emerge: BA.4, BA.5 Likely Reinfecting Omicron Survivors

A pair of new omicron subvariants has emerged, raising the possibility that survivors of earlier omicron strains can get reinfected. BA.4 and BA.5 have gained increasing attention in South … more

Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/3/22

Smoke rises at a warehouse after shelling in Severodonetsk, eastern Ukraine, on May 3, 2022, as fighting is raging across Ukraine's east amid a U.S. warning that Moscow is preparing to formally annex eastern regions. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Ukrainian Port City of Mariupol Reported Under Renewed Russian Fire After Evacuees Depart; More Attacks in the East

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces renewed bombings in the brutalized city of Mariupol on Tuesday and pressed their assault on Ukraine’s eastern heartland, according to Ukrainian officials … more

Laura King, Tracy Wilkinson and Henry Chu / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/3/22

Jessica Golibart, center, cries as demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. The Supreme Court is poised to strike down the right to abortion in the U.S., according to a leaked draft of a majority opinion that would shred nearly 50 years of constitutional protections. (Brendan Smiakowski/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Biden Says ‘Radical’ Draft Abortion Opinion Throws ‘Whole Range of Rights’ Into Question

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said a draft Supreme Court opinion that leaked Monday night and appeared to reveal that a majority of five conservative justices intend to strike down Roe vs. … more

Eli Stokols and Courtney Subramanian / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 5/3/22

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, fourth from right, walks during his visit in Borodianka, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 28, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Russia Launches New Wave of Attacks on Kyiv and Ukraine’s East as Biden Seeks Massive Aid Package

DNIPRO, Ukraine — Ending days of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital, Russia on Thursday bombarded Kyiv — even as the head of the United Nations visited and met with President … more

Nabih Bulos, Jaweed Kaleem and Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/28/22

Tug boats alongside lumber and cargo shipping containers at a dock at the Port of Long Beach on Jan. 11, 2022, in Long Beach, California. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

U.S. Economy Posts Surprise Contraction, Belying Solid Consumer Picture

The U.S. economy shrank for the first time since 2020, reflecting an import surge tied to solid consumer demand. While the surprise contraction adds to political headaches for President … more

Olivia Rockeman / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/28/22

A boy watches as a nurse administers his pediatric dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, at a L.A. Care Health Plan vaccination clinic at Los Angeles Mission College in the Sylmar neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, Jan. 19, 2022. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Moderna Applies for U.S. Clearance of COVID Shot for Young Kids

Moderna Inc. applied for emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine in children from six months to under 6 years old after a successful trial showed two doses generate high levels of … more

Robert Langreth / Bloomberg News (TNS) | 4/28/22

Packs of Newport cigarettes are seen on a shelf in a grocery store in the Flatbush neighborhood on April 29, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/TNS)

FDA Proposes Ban on Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored Cigars

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, targeting products used by more than a third of smokers. … more

Lauren Clason / CQ-Roll Call (TNS) | 4/28/22

The Church of Scientology's Flag Building is pictured on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in downtown Clearwater, Florida. (Martha Asencio Rhine/Tampa Bay Times/TNS)

Three Former Scientology Workers Sue, Saying They Were Trafficked as Children

TAMPA, Fla. — Gawain Baxter was 6 years old when he signed a contract agreeing to work for the Church of Scientology for 1 billion years. He said he spent his childhood doing manual labor … more

Tracey McManus / Tampa Bay Times (TNS) | 4/28/22

This photograph taken on April 26, 2022, shows the Soviet monument to Ukraine-Russia friendship being dismantled in Kyiv. - Authorities in Kyiv on April 26, 2022, began demolishing a monument symbolising historic ties between ex-Soviet Ukraine and Russia, AFP correspondents reported, more than two months after Moscow's troops invaded Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

Russia Cuts Gas to Poland and Bulgaria as West Mounts New Arms Push

KHARKIV, Ukraine — Moscow on Wednesday turned off the natural-gas spigot to the front-line Eastern European states of Poland and Bulgaria, signaling its willingness to take sharp economic aim … more

Nabih Bulos and Laura King / Los Angeles Times (TNS) | 4/27/22

Joey Reed, father of Trevor Reed, stands in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2022, as he protest his son's detention in Russia. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

American Ex-Marine Trevor Reed Released From Russian Prison in Swap

Almost two years after he was sentenced to nine years in a Russian prison, former Marine Trevor Reed was released Wednesday in a prisoner swap. “Our family has been living a nightmare. … more

Kate Feldman / New York Daily News (TNS) | 4/27/22