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More than 50 million Americans were under winter weather warning Tuesday afternoon as a deadly cold front expanded, killing at least two people.

President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the COVID public health emergency just as his administration weighs a new health emergency for abortion access.

Florida lawmakers are pushing legislation that would let citizens carry a concealed gun without having to get a government-issued permit.

In the wake of a drone strike against at least one defense factory in the central city of Isfahan, Iranian officials told Newsweek that any military option pursued by the United States against the Islamic Republic would result in all-out conflict with regionwide ramifications.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday rebuffed a broad request from the House Judiciary Committee to provide further details about the special counsel investigation into the mishandling of documents during President Biden’s time as vice president, saying that doing so would risk releasing information central to the case.

A group of two dozen Senate Republicans have signed a letter vowing to oppose any increase in the nation’s debt limit unless Congress agrees to spending cuts to help pay down the national debt.

Pro-life dad Mark Houck, who was arrested in a terrifying FBI home raid, has been acquitted in federal court. After the verdict was announced, Houck embraced his wife while roughly two dozen supporters in the courtroom wept tears of relief.

The Memphis Police Department said Monday that a 7th police officer had been dismissed over the fatal beating of Black man Tyre Nichols at a traffic stop.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California law intended to prevent doctors from spreading COVID-19 misinformation or disinformation to patients, finding that it is “unconstitutionally vague.”

The Memphis police chief has disbanded the U.S. city’s so-called Scorpion unit after five of its officers beat Black man Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries.

Protests broke out in the United States late Friday after the city of Memphis released footage of the fatal beatings of a Black man by police at a traffic stop.

House Republicans have called top U.S. health officials to testify in their first hearings about the Biden administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported.

Authorities urged the public to remain calm as five former police officers in the U.S. State of Tennessee were charged with second-degree murder after a Black man died following a traffic stop.

A manufacturer of abortion pills has filed suit against West Virginia, arguing the state’s restrictions on access to the medication conflicts with congressional authority given to the Food and Drugs Administration to determine which medications are safe for the public, the Hill reports. Following the reversal of Roe v Wade in June last year, West Virginia instituted a ban on abortion at all stages, with exceptions for medical emergencies, rape and incest.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday that a federal grand jury in Florida has indicted two people for “spray-painting threats” on crisis pregnancy centers in the state — threats including “YOUR TIME IS UP!!” and “WE’RE COMING for U.”

The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit challenging the state’s 15-week abortion ban, which was passed in July last year, almost immediately after Roe v Wade was reversed, the Washington Examiner reports. In the meantime, the law remains effective; the high court did not impose a temporary injunction to block it pending review.

Seven people were killed, and one was critically injured in a shooting across two locations in the U.S. state of California on Monday, police confirmed.

Thirteen clergy from six faith traditions filed a lawsuit against the State of Missouri on Jan. 19, claiming that the state’s ban on abortion constitutes an imposition of a Christian belief and thus violates the separation of church and state. The clergy also stressed that the abortion ban violates their religious beliefs.

President of the National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd said that the number of terrorists coming across the southern border has increased dramatically during the Biden administration.

“California has been in dry conditions for much of the last 10 years, with only two years of wet,” Jeff Mount, senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center, previously told Newsweek.