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A federal appeals court has left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States. Judges on the U.S.

President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Conference on Women's Health Research from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden says healthy women help US prosperity as he highlights White House initiative on their health

President-elect Donald Trump takes the stage before speaking at the FOX Nation Patriot Awards, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Greenvale, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Trump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens next

The Supreme Court is pictured, June 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal challenging Hawaii gun licensing requirements under Second Amendment

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Nov. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Boston parents over race bias in elite high school admissions

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Supreme Court to hear case concerning LGBTQ books in public schools

Five children’s books featuring LGBTQ characters, aimed at grades K through 5, have roiled a suburban Maryland school district and led to a Supreme Court case that the justices will hear on Tuesday. (AP Video: Mike Pesoli)

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Former President Donald Trump stands on stage before speaking at a Concerned Women for America Summit at the Capitol Hilton, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump isn’t backing a national abortion ban. That’s not hurting him in the GOP primary

FILE - Georgia Sen. John Kennedy, R-Macon, introduces a redistricting bill during a special session at the state Capitol, Nov. 9, 2021, in Atlanta. A trial challenging the maps began on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in federal court in Atlanta. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

A judge must now decide if Georgia voting districts are racially discriminatory after a trial ended

FILE - The legal team for Planned Parenthood South Atlantic speaks outside the South Carolina Supreme Court building in Columbia, S.C. on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. In a complaint filed Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, the team wrote that a strict new abortion ban should be interpreted to take effect after approximately nine weeks of pregnancy. (AP File Photo/James Pollard, File)

Planned Parenthood sues to expand South Carolina abortion access under strict new ban

FILE - Demonstrators protest outside the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Planned Parenthood announced Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn't apply to abortions.(Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Planned Parenthood to resume offering abortions next week in Wisconsin, citing court ruling

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson speaks in his office in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Watson, a Republican, is seeking a second term as the state's top elections official, and he faces Democrat Ty Pinkins in the Nov. 7, 2023, general election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi should revive process to put issues on ballot, Secretary of State Watson says

FILE - People rally outside the Supreme Court over President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), at the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 12, 2019. A federal judge on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Federal judge again declares that DACA is illegal with issue likely to be decided by Supreme Court

FILE - David Ermold, right, files to run for Rowan County Clerk in Kentucky as Clerk Kim Davis looks on, Dec. 6, 2017, in Morehead, Ky. Davis denied Ermold and his husband a marriage license in 2015 because she was opposed to gay marriage for religious reasons. Ermold and his partner won a jury verdict for damages against Davis on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Adam Beam, File)

Jury awards $100,000 to Kentucky couple denied marriage license by ex-County Clerk Kim Davis

This combination of images shows cover art for "One Way Back," by Christine Blasey Ford, left, and a photo of Blasey Ford as she is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 27, 2018. Blasey’s Ford’s “One Way Back” is scheduled for publication next March. (St. Martin's Press via AP, left, and Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an interview with Politico in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Newsom said the state will intervene in an ongoing federal court case that has barred San Francisco from cleaning up homeless encampments. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Newsom says California will intervene in court case blocking San Francisco from clearing encampments

In this image taken from a video, Virginia legislative candidate Susanna Gibson addresses the Women's Summit in Virginia Beach, Va., in September of 2022. Gibson has denounced the disclosure of live videos on a pornographic website in which she and her husband engaged in sex acts. (Neil Smith via AP)

Virginia candidate who livestreamed sex videos draws support from women, Democratic leader

FILE - An. Abortion rights demonstrator holds a sign during a rally on May 14, 2022, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Women in Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma are challenging strict abortion laws that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Two state lawsuits were filed on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Idaho and Tennessee after women were denied care while facing harrowing pregnancy complications. Meanwhile, a federal complaint was filed in Oklahoma after a woman couldn't receive an abortion despite having a dangerous and nonviable pregnancy. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Women in Idaho, Tennessee and Oklahoma sue over abortion bans after being denied care

FILE - A person holds up a sign reading, "Trans People Belong in Alabama," during a rally outside the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on International Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023. On Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, a federal appeals court ruled that Alabama can enforce a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender children, the second such appellate victory for gender-affirming care restrictions that have been adopted by a growing number of Republican-led states. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

Families ask full appellate court to reconsider Alabama transgender care ban

In this image taken from a video, Virginia legislative candidate Susanna Gibson addresses the Women's Summit in Virginia Beach, Va., in September of 2022. Gibson has denounced the disclosure of live videos on a pornographic website in which she and her husband engaged in sex acts. (Neil Smith via AP)

Candidate in high-stakes Virginia election performed sex acts with husband in live videos

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, right, appoints State Court of Appeals Judge Allison Riggs, left, to the North Carolina Supreme Court to fill a vacancy, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, at the Executive Mansion in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

North Carolina governor appoints Democrat to fill Supreme Court vacancy

FILE - A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama's congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., July 18, 2023. Alabama on Monday, Sept 11 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler, File)

Alabama asks US Supreme Court again to intervene in redistricting case

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces an order restricting people from carrying guns in Bernalillo County for 30 days during a news conference in the Governor's Office on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 in Santa Fe, N.M. Grisham said she expects legal challenges but was compelled to act because of recent shootings, including the death of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.(Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Group sues after New Mexico governor suspends right to carry guns in Albuquerque in public

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 12, 2022. The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse an appellate ruling that would cut off mail-order access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States. In an appeal filed Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of mifepristone, argued that federal judges should not second-guess the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the drug or the conditions under which it is dispensed. The Biden administration also was expected to file an appeal. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court is asked to reject limits on a drug used in the most common method of abortion

FILE - Former President Donald Trump visits with campaign volunteers at the Elks Lodge, July 18, 2023, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Trump lawyers move ‘insurrection’ clause lawsuit aiming to bar him from the ballot to federal court

Alabama pursues appeal of ruling striking down districts as racially discriminatory

FILE - A protestor carries a sign reading in Spanish "It's not a fashion. It's the fourth wave. Legal abortion is an obligation of the state," during a march on International Women's Day in Mexico City, March 8, 2019. A Sept. 6, 2023 decision by Mexico's Supreme Court ending federal criminal penalties for abortion was a big boost to activists who waged decades-long campaigns for safe abortion access nationwide, but the country still has significant barriers to overcome before Mexican women have universal access. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

EXPLAINER: Abortion access has expanded but remains difficult in Mexico. How does it work now?

FILE - Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. Alito on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, rejected demands from Senate Democrats that he step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case because of his interactions with one of the lawyers, in a fresh demonstration of tensions over ethical issues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Alito rejects Senate Democrats’ call to step aside from an upcoming Supreme Court case

FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. The fate of abortion rights in Florida is at stake Friday, Sept. 8, 2023 when the state Supreme Court takes up a challenge to a law banning the procedure in most cases after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which will determine whether an even stricter six-week ban signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis can take effect. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

Florida abortion rights at stake as state Supreme Court takes up challenge to GOP-led restrictions

A woman holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish; "I will decide" as she joins a march demanding legal, free and safe abortions for all women, marking International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2022. Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, has decriminalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Latin America women’s rights groups say their abortion win in Mexico may hold the key to US struggle

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh speaks at a judicial conference, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts ‘concrete steps soon’ to address ethics concerns

FILE - A woman holds a banner reading in Spanish, "Legal, safe, and free abortion" as abortion rights protesters demonstrate in front of the National Congress on the "Day for Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean," in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2020. Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, has decriminalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Mexican Supreme Court’s abortion decision expands access to millions, stands in contrast to US

FILE - Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, center, is sworn into office, Jan. 4, 2021, inside the state Capitol in Helena, Mont. Knudsen faces 41 counts of professional misconduct after a special counsel alleged he and attorneys in his office defied state Supreme Court orders and questioned the impartiality of the Court in what became a legal battle over the subpoena powers of the Legislature. A spokeswoman for Knudsen said the complaint filed Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, is meritless and politically motivated as Knudsen seeks re-election next year. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Montana’s attorney general faces professional misconduct complaint. Spokeswoman calls it meritless

A woman holds up a sign with a message that reads in Spanish; "I will decide" as she joins a march demanding legal, free and safe abortions for all women, marking International Safe Abortion Day, in Mexico City, Sept. 28, 2022. Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, has decriminalized abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure

FILE - Bremerton High School assistant coach Joe Kennedy takes a knee and prays at the 50-yard line after Bremerton's win over Mount Douglas in a high school football game at Bremerton Memorial Stadium in Bremerton, Wash., on Sept. 1, 2023. Kennedy, the praying football coach who had a long legal battle to get his job back, resigned Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, after his first game back on the job. He cited multiple reasons for his resignation including taking care of an ailing family member out of state. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)

A football coach who got job back after Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field has resigned

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departure from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta. A liberal group has filed a lawsuit to bar Trump from the primary ballot in Colorado. The lawsuit contends Trump is ineligible to run for the White House again under a rarely used clause in the U.S. Constitution aimed at candidates who have supported an “insurrection.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

A lawsuit seeks to bar Trump from the primary in Colorado, citing Constitution’s insurrection clause

FILE - Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks during the annual St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky., Aug. 5, 2023. Beshear has pushed his opposition to Kentucky's abortion ban to the forefront of his reelection campaign by linking his Republican challenger to an extreme scenario of the strict law — requiring young victims of rape or incest to carry their pregnancies to term. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP, File)

Kentucky Democrat Beshear links GOP challenger to reality of abortion law in reelection campaign