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Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Texas law a "statutory scheme" that violates Supreme Court precedent.

Risking beatings by the Taliban, Afghan women have taken to the streets to protest against the hard-line regime, its new curbs on their rights — and Pakistan's influence in their country.

Ian Millhiser covers the Supreme Court for Vox. He says the Court's decision to uphold the law was a generational victory for abortion opponents: "They've spent many decades working for this moment."

The Titanokorys gainesi, which is now extinct, was a 1 1/2-foot-long sea animal — gigantic for its time — with a large protective shell over its head, a toothed mouth and a pair of spiny claws.

If approved, the Los Angeles Unified School District would be by far the largest school district in the nation to impose a requirement that students 12 and older get a COVID-19 vaccine.

About 200 people, including some Americans, departed the Afghan capital on Thursday. Officials said this was not an evacuation flight, but rather that people were leaving of their own free will.

In the weeks leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, NPR set up a phone booth in New York City and invited people to leave voicemails for someone they lost that day. Here's what they had to say.

The FBI is asking the American public to review the new information and come forward with any information about the possible identity of the bomb-maker.

More than 500 companies submitted applications for 6.5 million vaping products to the FDA. The agency ruled on some of them, but did not yet make a decision on products made by Juul.

Latinos make up about 85% of California's Imperial County and many there are registered Democrats. Gov. Newsom wants them to vote "No" in his recall, but there are worries they won't turn out to vote.