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The spotlight is on Ohio and Texas, but GOP state legislatures have been restricting abortions for 3 years. Are doctors being caught between good medicine and bad law?

Reports the US bugged embassies of friendly nations are threatening a massive US-EU trade deal. How much secret intelligence is too much to protect the nation’s security?

Have this week’s Supreme Court decisions made history or has a divided court muddied the legal waters on voting rights and same-sex marriage?

President Obama is in Africa. We hear about America's changing relationship with a continent of vast diversity, about economic growth, democracy and Obama's reputation.

Two different five-vote Supreme Court majorities made rulings today that advance the cause of same-sex marriage in the United States.

The US Supreme Court today struck at the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Is voting discrimination against blacks and other minorities a thing of the past?

With players including the Karzai government, the Taliban, Pakistan and India, we thread our way through US efforts to end 12 years of war in Afghanistan.

The EPA says poultry and livestock create three times more waste than the US human population. The Ag Department says "factory farms" produce more fertilizer than is needed.

With little time left until implementation of Obamacare begins, we hear about a massive advertising campaign with profound consequences for every American.

For 2 weeks, 100,000 Brazilians in 5 cities have protested high living costs and inadequate public services while billions are being spent on the World Cup and Olympics.