The Walt Disney Co., publishing giant Conde Nast and the investment firm JPMorgan Chase were among the major American companies that pledged on Friday to cover travel costs for employees seeking out-of-state abortions, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Powerful emotions were on display outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Friday as both sides in the battle over abortion rights vowed to keep fighting for their cause.
Prince Charles singled out Canada's efforts at reconciliation with the Indigenous community as an example for other Commonwealth nations that are also struggling to come to terms with their past.
An aftershock shook a hard-hit area of eastern Afghanistan on Friday, two days after a quake rattled the region, razing hundreds of mud-brick homes and killing 1,150 people, according to state media.
After weeks of ferocious fighting, Ukrainian forces will retreat from the besieged city of Severodonetsk in the country's east to avoid encirclement, a regional governor said Friday.
The devastating effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine are being felt far beyond the front lines of the war — leading to extreme food shortages in the Middle East and Africa.
