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Demonstrators protest about abortion Friday outside the Supreme Court in Washington.

'This is not over': Biden vows abortion fight, assails 'extreme' court ruling

President Joe Biden said Friday that "it's a sad day for the court and the country" after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
A celebration Friday outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court’s landmark abortion cases.

How U.S. states have banned, limited or protected abortion

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion. The ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. In anticipation of the decision, several states led by Democrats have taken steps to protect abortion access.
A launch truck fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) produced by Lockheed Martin during combat training in the high desert of the Yakima Training Center, Washington. U.S. officials will send another $450 million in military aid to Ukraine, including some additional medium-range rocket systems. The latest package will include a number of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS.

Ukrainian army leaving battered city for fortified positions

After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from a besieged city in the country's east to move to stronger positions, a regional governor said Friday.
FILE -Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who has led the Democrats in bipartisan Senate talks to rein in gun violence, pauses for questions from reporters, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. The Senate on Thursday, June 23, 2022 easily approved a bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unthinkable just a month ago, clearing the way for final congressional approval of what will be lawmakers' most far-reaching response in decades to the nation's run of brutal mass shootings. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Setting gridlock aside, Congress set to OK gun violence bill

Congress is on the verge of approving a $13 billion bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unimaginable a month ago
The home of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides sits between two taller buildings on the main road of the German Colony neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Thursday, June 16, 2022. The official residence of the American envoy is a rental and temporary, officials said, secured after two years of house-hunting in the wake of then-President Donald Trump's controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
US envoy to Israel lives in a luxe rental, a Trump legacy
The U.S. envoy to Israel has moved into a new rental property in Jerusalem
FILE - People gather around flowers and candles after a man killed several people on Wednesday afternoon, in Kongsberg, Norway, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. A man was Friday, June 24, 2022 found guilty to murder and attempted murder for fatally stabbing five and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives. (AP Photo/Pal Nordseth, File)
Norwegian man convicted of killing 5 in bow-and-arrow attack
A man has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder for killing five people and wounding four others in southern Norway when he attacked strangers with a bow and arrows and knives
An Indian Air Force aircraft with earthquake relief consignment lands in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. India said it sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan that state media reported killed 1,000 people. (India's Ministry of External Affairs via AP)
India flies tons of essentials to quake-rocked Afghanistan
India is sending family tents, blankets and other relief supplies for a team to distribute in eastern Afghan villages where a deadly earthquake collapsed thousands of timber and stone homes to rubble
Turkey: Qatari, Azerbaijani aircraft join wildfire fight
Water-dropping aircraft from Azerbaijan and Qatar have joined the fight against a wind-stoked wildfire that is burning for a fourth day near a popular resort in southwestern Turkey
FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2017, photo, a single-family home remains on the edge of where a multi-story, mixed-use building is being constructed in Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, June 23, 2022, it will provide $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or preserve more than 500 new affordable housing units in Seattle - the latest spending by a tech company to ease a severe housing crunch the industry has helped create. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Amazon providing $23M for affordable housing in Seattle
Amazon says it's providing $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or preserve more than 500 new affordable housing units in Seattle
Today in History: June 24, Cabot spots North America
Today in History Today is Friday, June 24, the 175th day of 2022. There are 190 days left in the year.
Police stand guard outside a bar in central Oslo, early Saturday, June 25, 2022. Norwegian police say a few people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting. (Javad Parsa/NTB via AP)
2 killed in mass shooting in Norway; more than a dozen hurt
Norwegian police say two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in a mass shooting in Oslo
FILE - Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor addresses Judge Kathryn Quaintance at the Hennepin County Government Center, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021, in Minneapolis. Noor, who fatally shot a woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home in 2017, is scheduled to be released from incarceration on Monday, June 27, 2022. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
Ex-Minneapolis officer who killed 911 caller to be released
The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home in 2017 is scheduled to be released from prison next week
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Timothy Christian High School held it graduation ceremony on Friday, June 3 in Elmhurst.
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Left to right, Elizabeth Malek, Nora Petroline and Nicole Zagone have a conversation while awaiting the start of the Glenbrook South High School graduation at the Rosemont Theatre Sunday.
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