The ACLU is challenging two major transgender athlete and abortion laws...another sanctuary city for the unborn...and Facebook will no longer remove claims COVID-19 is human-made or manufactured.

The White House says there are still questions about how the Covid-19 pandemic got started...a group of scientists recommends researchers be allowed to grow human embryos longer under limited conditions. ..and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will devote part of its national meeting next month to the issue of which Catholics are worthy of receiving Communion.

The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem has been reopened...Tennessee bans Critical Race Theory in public schools...and China denouncing plans for a people's tribunal in Britain next month on allegations of genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

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.