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We were joined by the Republican strategist Deana Bass Williams.

We were joined by Tamya Cox-Toure, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in the state of Oklahoma, which has voted for one of America’s toughest abortion bans.

Vice President Kamala Harris has condemned the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion which would overturn Roe v. Wade and rip up 50 years of abortion rights in the US, as a “direct assault on freedom”. States are already rushing to declare whether they would outlaw or protect abortion rights. California’s Governor Gavin Newsom claimed a…

The US Congress is set to consider a request from President Biden to endorse a new $33bn spending package for Ukraine. 

Alexanda Kotey was one of the so-called Beatles, an Islamic State cell of four British men that tortured and murdered mainly western hostages in the mid-2010s.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, reached a deal to buy Twitter.

Not many actors have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony Award, but Viola Davis has been honoured with all the major accolades. All the more extraordinary when you consider her childhood of extreme poverty and abuse. 

Russia has launched a series of attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, hitting railway stations in central and western Ukraine, hours after the US secretary of state and his defence secretary visited Kyiv to pledge more American support. 

Author Andrew Rice unpicks 12 months that will live in infamy.

Actor Johnny Depp has taken the stand in his defamation case against his ex wife Amber Heard.

The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a US-sponsored resolution to throw Russia out of the UN Human Rights council over mounting war crimes allegations.

President Biden has just been speaking at a trade union conference in Washington DC where he gave more details on the new sanctions the US has imposed on Russia.

Ken Burns is widely recognised as one of the finest documentary filmmakers of our time. 

El Shafee Elsheikh, who’s been stripped of his British citizenship, has denied being a member of the group but admits to joining ISIS.

If Britain seems to be struggling about what to do about the energy crisis, the US is taking decisive action.