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May 17, 2023: US appeals court on abortion pill, North Carolina veto, Debt ceiling, Ukraine, NYC

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May 17, 2023: US appeals court on abortion pill, North Carolina veto, Debt ceiling, Ukraine, NYC

May 17, 2023: US appeals court on abortion pill, North Carolina veto, Debt ceiling, Ukraine, NYC



May 17, 2023: US appeals court to weigh fate of abortion pill, North Carolina, Debt ceiling deal, Ukraine’s Patriot missile defence system, NYC bike path

1. A federal appeals court in New Orleans will hear arguments in a closely watched case brought by anti-abortion activists seeking to ban the abortion pill mifepristone, with potentially far-reaching impact on abortion access across the United States.

2. North Carolina Republican lawmakers overrode a veto by the state’s Democratic governor to enact a law on Tuesday that cuts the window for most abortions in the southern state from 20 to 12 weeks.

3. Democratic President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy edged closer to a deal to avoid a looming US debt default Tuesday, as the threat of an economic nightmare prompted Biden to cut short an Asia trip this week.

4. Ukraine denied on Wednesday that a Russian hypersonic missile had destroyed a U.S.-made Patriot missile defence system during an air strike on Kyiv.

5. A US judge is set on Wednesday to formally mete out a life sentence to the Uzbek man convicted of killing eight people and injuring dozens more in a 2017 attack in which he drove a rented truck down a New York City bike path crowded with cyclists and pedestrians.

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