U-S Supreme Court to take up major Abortion case...The White House conducting "quiet, intensive diplomacy" in the Middle East...and more talk of boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The U.N. chief appealing for an immediate halt to fighting in the Middle East....some questioning of the CDC's new mask guidelines...and Texas passes a heatbeat bill.

New mask guidance from the CDC...closing arguments in a church challenge of Manitoba's COVID-19 restrictions....and more hostilities in the Middle East.

A senior U.S. diplomat heads to the Middle East to push for a de-escalation of the latest tensions and violence...as U-S Covid-19 deaths drop to a 10-month low, an international panel says the world bungled its COVID response...and Germany tries to criminalize certain speech.

A Federal Appeals court has heard Idaho's first-in-the-nation ban on transgender athletes playing on women's sports teams...North Carolina lawmakers have advanced a bill banning abortions because of the fetus' race or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome...and the Biden administration is shifting how it allocates COVID-19 vaccines to states.

A Holocaust Memorial in Portland has been defaced...7 Manitoba churches are in court today fighting public-health orders that have severely restricted their gatherings...and a large Texas city has voted to outlaw abortion.

The EU calls for freedom for religious minorities in Pakistan...tragic stampede at Jewish festival in northern Israel...and kidnapers have released Catholic hostages in Haiti.

Presidential address and rebuttal...another transgender athlete ban...and a ruling in Ecuador on decriminalizing abortion in cases of rape.

President Biden's plan for government's role in American life...a sweeping pro-life bill has been signed by Arizona's governor....and Connecticut's religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools and day cares has been ended.

New abortion restrictions in Oklahoma...and new mask guidelines from the CDC.