A 49-year crusade: Inside the movement to overturn Roe v. Wade  —  Antiabortion activists and their Republican allies are on the cusp of reaching a goal they have sought for decades in tossing out the 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell still remembers …

CIA director says China ‘unsettled’ by Ukraine war  —  Bill Burns tells FT conference that invasion may have affected Xi Jinping's calculations over Taiwan  —  The director of the CIA said that Chinese president Xi Jinping has been “unsettled” by the war in Ukraine, which had demonstrated …

The Secrets Ed Koch Carried  —  To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor.  But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation.  —  Edward I. Koch looked like the busiest septuagenarian in New York.

Ohio was a test case for 2024.  The GOP establishment looks screwed.  —  The conventional view of J.D. Vance's victory in Ohio's Senate primary this week was that it demonstrated the power of Donald Trump's endorsement.  —  But the election results also delivered something else …

Sinn Fein hails ‘new era’ as it wins Northern Ireland vote  —  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time in a historic win.

Afghanistan's Taliban order women to cover up head to toe  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public — a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound …

Putin sends Mariupol survivors to remote corners of Russia as investigation reveals network of 66 camps  —  Thousands of Ukrainians have been sent to remote camps up to 5,500 miles from their homes as Vladimir Putin's officials follow Kremlin orders to disperse them across Russia, i can reveal.

White House alarmed that Commerce probe is ‘smothering’ solar industry  —  The investigation is examining allegations that China is illegally circumventing U.S. tariffs.  —  Top climate officials in the Biden administration are warning that a federal investigation into alleged dodging …

Ukraine lays out peace-talk demands as the West braces for escalation  —  Zelensky says Ukraine must get E.U. membership, restoration of pre-invasion borders, Russian accountability and the return of refugees.  —  RIGA, Latvia — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined his conditions Friday …

REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to FIRE 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, presentation to investors shows  — Elon Musk plans to quintuple Twitter's revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028

The Limits of Privilege  —  The new abortion regime is going to affect everyone.  —  In 2015, the Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, “We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.”  If you have paid attention …

Less immigrant labor in US contributing to price hikes  —  Just 10 miles from the Rio Grande, Mike Helle's farm is so short of immigrant workers that he's replaced 450 acres of labor-intensive leafy greens with crops that can be harvested by machinery.  —  In Houston, Al Flores increased …