Joe Biden will hold a candlelight ceremony Monday at sunset as the United States tops 500,000 deaths from the COVID pandemic. He s ordering flags to half staff for five days.
Anti-abortion protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in June 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
WASHINGTON (CN) The Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve a circuit split over a Trump administration rule denying federal funding to clinics that refer women for abortions.
Then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar finalized the rule at issue in 2019, prohibiting health care providers like Planned Parenthood and others from taking federal funding so long as they referred their patients to abortion services.
The Title X family planning program provides hundreds of millions of federal dollars for family planning centers and health care facilities across the U.S., mostly benefiting low-income families and women.
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Commentary: Taiwan is becoming the biggest test in US-China relations US President Joe Biden must demonstrate resolve yet bolster communication channels with China and manage the signature of interactions with Taiwanese officials, says Ted Gover.
In this Sep 24, 2015 file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, then Vice-President Joe Biden, stand for the US national anthem during an arrival ceremony in Andrews Air Force Base. (Photo: AP/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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CLAREMONT, California: Recent weeks have seen a rise in tensions in East Asia’s waterways with a Chinese aircraft carrier group and US warships sailing through the Taiwan Strait.
Americans may still have to wear masks in 2022, the country’s leading infectious disease expert said Sunday, though he said life could resume a semblance of normalcy by the fall or winter. “It is possible that that’s the case,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday on CNN when asked whether mask use will still be necessary next .