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In another blow to Joe Biden’s administration, the Supreme Court has curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to fight climate change. 

The former British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in jail in a New York federal court in her sex trafficking case. It’s been almost two years since she was arrested on charges of helping Jeffrey Epstein groom and abuse underage girls. Maxwell apologised to the victims of her abuses and said…

50 people have been found dead inside an abandoned lorry in Texas and at least a dozen others were taken to hospital with heat related illnesses. Homeland Security officials are investigating what’s assumed to be an attempt to smuggle people across the US border. Many of those who died were Mexican and the country’s president…

Women have been rushing to make appointments at abortion clinics in states across America before they shut their doors for good, after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.

We spoke to Terrisa Bukovinac from the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group and Jose Vela – a member of Austin City Council who’s pro-choice.

It was a decision that America knew was coming.

For the first time in decades, new gun safety legislation has won support from Republicans and Democrats in the US Senate. 

This interview took place in February 2021. The public hearings of the January 6 select committee are investigating the causes of the attack on the Capitol building in Washington DC last year. During the inquiry, questions have been raised over what role militias and other right-wing groups may have had in planning and co-ordinating the riot.…

Donald Trump’s former attorney general has told the investigation into the January 6th storming of the Capitol about his concerns that Mr Trump had become “detached from reality”. 

We spoke to the columnist and broadcaster, Jonathan Capehart.

The House of Representatives has backed a series of bills around stricter gun controls – while a committee will also begin its public hearings today to investigate what really went on during the storming of the US Capitol on January 6th last year.

An 11-year-old girl who survived the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas by covering herself with blood and pretending to be dead, has described her traumatic experience to members of Congress in a pre-recorded video – telling them “I don’t want it to happen again”.

Amber Heard is expected to appeal against the $8.5 million damages bill she was ordered to pay – after losing the defamation case against her former husband Johnny Depp.

Ukraine’s military hope it will help them hold the line in the east of the country and the onslaught.

The US Justice Department has said it will investigate the police response to last week’s mass shooting in Texas, after it emerged that officers delayed entering the school for more than 40 minutes.