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Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

1. A post-Roe America is starting to take shape.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, conservatives in roughly half of the states are moving swiftly to end or restrict reproductive rights. Liberals in roughly 20 other states are scrambling to preserve them. Their actions follow a weekend of furious protest and prayer.

In Louisiana, the state’s three remaining abortion clinics said they would resume performing the procedure after a judge temporarily blocked enforcement of the state’s abortion “trigger laws.” A judge in Utah also blocked for two weeks the enforcement of an abortion ban in the state. Abortion rights activists have filed similar lawsuits in Kentucky, Texas, Idaho and Mississippi. We’re tracking the states where abortion is banned.

California is moving toward placing a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights on the November ballot. Washington’s governor said he would pursue something similar.

A coalition of 22 state attorneys general committed themselves to defending abortion rights. In 19 other states, attorneys general jointly asked the Department of Justice to protect anti-abortion organizations from violence.

2. Sales of the morning-after pill are surging.

Some women began stockpiling the morning-after contraception pill in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Retailers are trying to shore up supply. “I felt like I had an obligation because our kids go to school in a state hostile to abortion care,” one mother said.

Advocates on all sides have called for men to be part of the conversation. The Times heard from hundreds who wanted to share their stories. We also spoke to three women who lived through a period without Roe and remember the years after it. Their activism for abortion rights is echoed in the present fight.

3. The Supreme Court ruled that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority in the 6-to-3 decision, said the prayers of the coach, Joseph Kennedy, were protected by the First Amendment. For eight years, Kennedy, a former coach in Bremerton, Wash., routinely offered prayers after games, with students often joining him.

It was the latest in a long line of decisions expanding the place of religion in public life and in education. Here are the major Supreme Court decisions in 2022.

4. The Jan. 6 committee unexpectedly scheduled a session for tomorrow to hear “recently obtained evidence” and witness testimony.

The hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. The panel had not been scheduled to meet this week and had been planning at least two additional hearings for next month. In recent days, the committee obtained and has been poring over hours of footage shot by a documentary filmmaker. Aides refused to divulge what additional evidence they planned to present.

In other politics news:

A federal task force tracked more than 1,000 threats against election workers. Only one has been fully prosecuted.

A law that would have let noncitizens vote in local New York City elections next year was struck down by a State Supreme Court justice.

5. Group of 7 leaders are looking at new ways to punish Russia for invading Ukraine.

They are weighing a plan that would allow Russia to keep selling oil to the world but would sharply limit the price. The move is an admission that economic sanctions haven’t dented Russia’s oil revenues. But they have driven up gasoline and other fuel prices in the U.S. and Europe and threatened the global food supply.

Russia missed a deadline for making bond payments yesterday, a move signaling its first default on international debt in more than a century.

In Ukraine, a Russian missile strike hit a crowded shopping center in the central Poltava region, killing at least 13 people. Ukraine’s president said an estimated 1,000 people were inside the building at the time of the strike.

Also, a Russian court said the trial of the U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner would start Friday. She will be in custody until it ends, her lawyer said.

6. The F.D.A. could move toward updating Covid vaccines to target the latest version of the coronavirus.

A panel of experts advising the agency plans to meet tomorrow to recommend whether to update booster shots. The federal government is hoping to improve the vaccine to better boost people’s immunity before a likely resurgence of the virus this winter. But in order to move that quickly, it may need to abandon the lengthy trials used to test the vaccines.

Pfizer and Moderna took a financial risk and started manufacturing doses that target the Omicron variant, betting that the government would pick the booster to be used in the fall.

7. Ten years ago, a group of biochemists published the results of a test-tube experiment on bacterial genes. It became one of the most celebrated inventions in modern biology.

In just a decade, the gene-editing tool CRISPR has led to innovations in medicine, evolution and farming. Its impact was swift, earning the 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry. But it has also raised ethical questions about altering human DNA. We examined its legacy and future prospects.

Entomologists, cardiologists, oncologists, zoologists and botanists have all put CRISPR to use to explore infectious diseases, T-cells, heart failure, sickle cell anemia and even more nutritious tomatoes.

8. Wimbledon should be Novak Djokovic’s time to shine. He did not disappoint in the first round.

Djokovic cruised to victory in opening play of the tennis tournament. Usually, Djokovic does not play grass-court events before Wimbledon, and he has won five times with that tactic. But Rafael Nadal and Matteo Berrettini (both of whom play tomorrow) are lurking.

Also to watch tomorrow: Serena Williams will make her 21st Wimbledon appearance, having not played a singles match since last year’s Wimbledon. She told our reporter she did not want that to be a lasting memory. “It was a tremendous amount of motivation,” Williams said. She plays Harmony Tan of France at 11:45 a.m. Eastern.

And in case you missed it, the Colorado Avalanche won their first Stanley Cup since 2001, denying the Tampa Bay Lightning a third consecutive title.

9. Does a good TV series always need a sequel?

It’s no sin for TV to repeat itself, and for decades, that was its purpose. But as TV grew more ambitious, our critic James Poniewozik writes, the question of how long a series should run became complicated. “Only Murders in the Building,” which returns on Hulu tomorrow, is the latest series to explore the mystery.

Season 2 “is entertaining in pretty much the same way as season one,” Poniewozik writes. “But where Season 1 built and deepened, Season 2 mainly coasts, hitting different versions of the same emotional beats for the central trio.”

Viewers know the New York building at the center of the series as the Arconia. But the Upper West Side building has a name — and a dramatic story — of its own.

10. And finally, India’s grand birdhouses.

In much of India, housing and feeding birds is a common practice. Some communities participate in training pigeons, others focus on conservation. In Gujarat, the collective affinity expresses itself through chabutras, ornamental bird houses.

The photographer Nipun Prabhakar spent seven years documenting the structures, some of which are 40-stories tall and can include classrooms for local children. Paid for by residents, the birdhouses are often designed and built by masons who are able to express the ethos of their communities. Take a look.

And if you’re in New York City, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden installed 33 new designer birdhouses including a “Birdega.”

Have a soaring night.

Sarah Hughes and Brent Lewis compiled photos for this briefing.

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