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Pro-life activists participate in the 48th annual March for Life outside the U.S. Supreme Court January 29, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Activists look ahead to what could be the 'last anniversary' for Roe

On both sides of the abortion debate, activists say this could be the last anniversary before Roe v. Wade is overturned or significantly rolled back.

Then U.S. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (right) speaks to reporters about the Senate vote to lift the arms embargo over Bosnia on July 26, 1995, as then Sen. Joseph Biden looks on.

Opinion: Bob Dole's efforts to prevent the genocide of Bosnians, remembered

Scott Simon remembers the late Sen. Bob Dole. When Yugoslavia broke apart in 1991, Dole tried hard, but failed, to get an arms embargo lifted so Bosnian Muslims could defend themselves.

Members of the Jane Collective, an underground group that helped women get abortions before it was legal, in a still from the documentary <em>The Janes.</em>

Before Roe v. Wade, a secret group provided abortions. Two new films tell the story.

Before Roe v. Wade, Heather Booth started an underground network to help women obtain illegal abortions. Known as the "Jane Collective," it's the subject of two films at Sundance this year.

Judge J. Michelle Childs is being considered by President Biden for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Judge Michelle Childs, whose early life was shaped by gun violence, is on SCOTUS list

Her meteoric rise in the last year has been due in part to her biggest supporter, South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the third ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Victoria Gray, who has sickle cell disease, volunteered for one of the most anticipated medical experiments in decades: the first attempt to use the gene-editing technique CRISPR to treat a genetic disorder in the United States.

First sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR gene-editing still thriving

A young Mississippi woman is thriving two years after getting treated for sickle cell disease with the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as CRISPR.

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, shown here during his 2021 Senate confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., began serving as the first Latino to head the federal government's largest statistical agency in January.

U.S. census director says the bureau needs to reduce chances of meddling after Trump

Newly sworn-in Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told NPR it's important to make sure there are policies in place to better protect the agency from any future political interference.

A photograph from a series by artist Jon Lardizabal will be on view at "Flourish," an exhibition of works by AAPI artists presented by Teros Gallery at Pixley's Oddities, opening May 28, 2022.

San Diego weekend arts events: 'Flourish,' 'Paradise TBD' and contemporary dance meets rock climbing

This weekend in the arts: "Flourish" at Pixley's Oddities; Project [BLANK]'s "Paradise TBD"; Disco Riot’s “Choreo & Climb" pairs performance with rock climbing; a reading from border poets; and Beethoven’s Ninth at The Shell.

Audience members sit separately for social distancing at a cinema in China's eastern Zhejiang province in July 2020.

Hollywood relies on China to stay afloat. What does that mean for movies?

Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel says that film studios increasingly need Chinese audiences to break even — which can result in self-censorship. His new book is Red Carpet.

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins waves at the audience during the astronaut graduation ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in January 2020. In April 2022, she will become the first Black woman to live and work on the International Space Station.

Jessica Watkins will be the first Black woman to live and work on the space station

Watkins will join the fourth SpaceX Crew next April on her way to entering the ranks of other history-making women at NASA like astronauts Mae Jemison and Sally Ride.

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker talks to reporters following a special service arranged days after a 44-year-old British national held the rabbi and three others hostage inside the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, TX.

'We can't live in fear': Texas rabbi held hostage says he'd give a stranger tea again

Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker says we cannot live in fear. He and three congregants were held hostage by a man who knocked on the synagogue door and came in for tea.

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