The US Secretary of State is heading to the Middle East...Florida's Gov. has signed a measure punishing social media platforms that remove conservative ideas from their sites...,and the Charleston church shooter is trying to get his conviction and death sentence overturned.

A reported cease-fire in the Middle East...U-S Homeland Security plans to ramp up social media tracking...and this year's winner of the Templeton Prize.

A Fetal Heartbeat bill has been signed into law in Texas...Abortion rights groups asking a federal judge to block a new Indiana law requiring doctors to tell women undergoing drug-induced abortions about a treatment for potentially stopping the abortion process....and Tennessee's Governor has signed legislation that bans gender-transition treatment for young minors.

More on the Supreme Court taking up Mississippi abortion law...and Covid-19 cases and deaths at their lowest levels since last spring.

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.