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Appointee asked to 'defend anti-abortion legislation'

Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, U.K., France, and Ireland.

On the menu today: Accounts of the phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky offer an unnerving portrait of a Ukrainian leader who is in denial about the risk of a full-scale Russian invasion, and an American leader who doesn’t want to send any more weapons, after equipping the Ukrainians to fight a ground war without any air cover.

Planned Parenthood has voluntarily dropped a lawsuit against a Texas city over its abortion sanction that was approved by voters.

A scientific report discovered that some 300,000 Brits are living with heart disease that could kill them within five years of diagnosis.

A group of world-renowned doctors and medical experts who joined Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for a panel discussion on COVID blasted the federal government’s response to the global pandemic, calling many of the policies “obscene, absurd, illogical and nonscientific.”

An answer to President Biden’s question from the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton.

A gun rights group is suing a California city after it passed an ordinance mandating gun owners to purchase liability insurance and pay an annual fee.

Details of Quebec’s draconian new vaccine passport scheme revealed.

For many years, Alicia Kowalczyk viewed Blue Cross Blue Shield as her last job before she retired, and she loved working there.