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The Supreme Court has upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, the law prohibiting an abortion procedure known medically as "intact dilation and extraction." The procedure is performed most often during the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy.

The Icelandic singer Björk has a new CD out called Volta. Reviewer Will Hermes describes it as highly energetic and creative. He speaks to Björk about her work, which includes African harp music and collaborations with pop producer Timbaland.

Yolanda Denise King, the daughter and eldest child of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died in Santa Monica, Calif., according to a spokesman for the King Center. She was 51. Steve Klein said the King family did not immediately know the cause of death but that relatives think it might have been a heart problem.

Commentator, author and bird lover Julie Zickefoose provides an update on how the birds of spring are doing after a recent, unseasonable cold spell. She reports that the migratory birds are now arriving en masse, albeit later than usual.

The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of the world's high-income countries. Death rates remain the highest among Black women, and have more than doubled over the last 20 years.

China struggles to prepare for a baby boom as it ushers in the especially lucky "golden pig year." But could that supposed luck turn into a curse?

Newly discovered letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, detail his efforts to get his family out of Nazi-occupied Holland in 1941 and emigrate to the United States or Cuba.

The Interior Department is removing the American bald eagle from protection under the Endangered Species Act. Once almost wiped out by hunters and DDT poisoning, the eagle has not only survived but is thriving.

For 1,000 years, the Anasazi Indians were lords of what's now the American Southwest. Then, apparently without warning, they all but vanished. Commentator Craig Childs says climate changes helped explain their disappearance.

Michigan faces a key vote on abortion rights as patients travel there from other states. At a clinic near Detroit, many women share what abortion access means for their own lives and futures.