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WASHINGTON, D.C. Roe Overturned? MoveOn and Abortion Access activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3 after the leak of a draft opinion overturning the Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision. AssociateJustice Samuel Alito wrote in the draft that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start” and “It is time to…return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” If the 1973 decision were to be reversed, legal abortion could be quickly restricted or banned in more than 20 states.…

Katie Taylor of Ireland (left) connects with Amanda Serrano of Puerto Rico during their World Boxing Association lightweight world championship fight at Madison Square Garden on April 30. The bout, dubbed the biggest women’s boxing match ever, was the first female fight to get top billing in the venue’s history. More than 1.5 million people globally watched Taylor defeat Serrano, setting a new viewership record for the sport. CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: SARAH STIER/GETTY; ASAAD NIAZI/AFP/GETTY; NHAC NGUYEN/AFP/GETTY SARAH STIER…

“I’m extremely respectful to the dress and what it means to American history.” ▸ P.21 MILLIONS OF RETIREMENT SAVERS MAY SOON be able to invest in Bitcoin as easily as they now buy stocks and bonds, following an announcement last month from Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest retirement-plan provider, that it will add cryptocurrency as an option to the 401(k) plans it offers companies later this year. “This will be remembered as a seminal moment in the evolution of crypto,” says financial advisor Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals and author of The Truth About Crypto. “For the average American worker, their only place to save for retirement is through a company retirement plan. Millions of workers will now start to buy Bitcoin who never would have…

JUST OVER TWO MONTHS into Europe’s biggest war in decades, Newsweek sat down with former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss a wide range of issues, as the alliance he led during Russia’s initial incursion into Ukraine eight years ago takes unprecedented measures against Moscow following its full-scale invasion. Rasmussen believes that democracies across the globe must form a coalition of their own to beat back a growing rival bloc dominated by autocratic powers. Prior to heading NATO from August 2009 to 2014, Rasmussen served as prime minister of his home country of Denmark. Today, he leads the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, an organization he founded in 2017 with the goal of strengthening the democratic nature of nations as well as the bonds between them. Rasmussen feels this goal is more…

“I THINK THAT HITLER ALSO HAD JEWISH ORIGINS.” — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “I don't have the patience for this. So I signed her up for a private teacher.” —SERENA WILLIAMS ON TEACHING HER 4 ½ YEAR OLD TO PLAY TENNIS “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.” —SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS ON THE LEAK OF A DRAFT OPINION STRIKING DOWN ROE V. WADE “My heart’s broken, and I feel so blessed. It’s a very strange dynamic, to be this broken and this blessed.” —WYNONNA JUDD BEING INDUCTED INTO THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, NAOMI “ I DID SOMETHING I THOUGHT WAS FUNNY AND IT WASN’T TAKEN THAT WAY.” —Bill Murray on his new movie shutting production “We weren’t living. We were surviving.” —Aleksandr Vorotilin, a…

THERE ARE A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN NEW YORK City but drowning in a rainstorm is not something many New Yorkers have ever worried about. That changed last September when the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the Big Apple, unleashing 80-mile-an-hour winds and dumping three-and-a-half inches of rain in a single hour, almost twice as much water as the city’s antiquated sewer systems could handle. The flood warning came too late to save a Nepali couple and their 2-year-old son, who drowned in Woodside, Queens when the sewers overflowed and water roared down hill, inundating their cramped, illegal basement apartment. It did not help a 43-year-old mother and her 22-year-old son, who died in Jamaica, Queens when floodwaters sent a car barreling into the side of their building, causing a…