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I'm Jeff Pierre and this is the 7th from the Washington Post. It's Wednesday, May 24th.

Let's get you caught up with today's 7 stories.

Number one. South Carolina passed a six-week abortion ban. The state Senate

voted for the ban yesterday. It'll go into effect when the governor signs it, which he's promised to do as soon as possible.

The chamber's five female senators, three of them, Republicans, had been blocking the measure.

One of them, Republican Katrina Sheely, spoke about her opposition to the abortion

ban yesterday on the Senate floor.

We in the South Carolina legislature are not God. We do not know what is going on in someone else's life. We do not have the right to make

decisions for someone else. If you listen to some members of the other chamber

just the other day, they feel it is their right to make

decisions for women and it amazes me. Across the South most states with the exception

of Virginia have implemented abortion restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

We're tracking laws across the country. You can find a link with that information in our show notes.

Number two, Russia now effectively controls Bakmoot in eastern Ukraine.

The city has been the scene of the war's longest and bloodiest battle, which has left thousands

of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers dead.

Russian forces appear to have taken what's left of the city,

but they're expected to struggle to hold on to it.

In related news, the United States is trying to distance itself

from an incident that happened in the Russian region of Belgrade this week.

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