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Abortion rights activists are working on a counterattack to the 200 bills that have passed in states across the U.S. since 2010.

Activists from across the country are asking Georgia's governor to support an investigation into the death of Kendrick Johnson, a 17-year-old discovered dead in a high school gymnasium almost a year ago. His body was found in a rolled-up gym mat.

The fight over abortion in Texas is being played out in federal court, where abortion rights activists are challenging a new state law.

Paula Deen may be famous for her deep-fried Southern cooking, but the Internet isn't buying her defense that she used a racial slur because of her deep Dixie roots.

A judge has temporarily blocked a North Dakota law that would have banned abortions beginning around six weeks, when a fetal heartbeat it detectable. It's one of several state laws passed this year intended to limit abortion.

Paula Deen's contract with The Food Network expires at the end of June -- and it won't be renewed.

A Georgia inmate's execution was halted Tuesday night with less than an hour to go. Prison officials had already given Warren Lee Hill one of the drugs when a federal appeals court stepped in.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound. The bill also puts restrictions on doctors who perform abortions, reports Marti Mikkelson of member station WUWM in Milwaukee.

After Ohio death row inmate Harry Mitts, Jr. is executed on Wednesday, the state will officially run out of pentobarbital - the lethal injection drug.

The measure signed by Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday overhauls North Carolina's election laws. It requires government-issued photo IDs at the polls, reduces the early voting period by one week and ends same day registration.