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Brooks and Capehart on the future of abortion rights, government funding brinkmanship

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including the omicron variant, U.S. government funding, and a major abortion case before the Supreme Court.

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Wisconsin's Democratic governor vetoes GOP abortion bills

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press

Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed five Republican-authored anti-abortion bills, a move that came two days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could curtail if not end a woman's right to abortion.

2 parents charged in Michigan school shooting, attorney says they left town for 'safety'

By Corey Williams, Ed White, Associated Press

Sheriff Mike Bouchard said their attorney, Shannon Smith, had agreed to arrange their arrest if charges were filed but hadn't been able to reach them. Smith, however, said the Crumbleys weren't on the run and had left town “for their…

WATCH: Press secretary Jen Psaki says White House is preparing for possible Russian Ukraine invasion

By Associated Press

The briefing comes as the number of confirmed cases of the omicron variant rise in the U.S. after the first case was confirmed this week in California.

WATCH: Michigan prosecutor gives update on decision to charge parents in Oxford school shooting

By Corey Williams, Ed White, Associated Press

The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

'We just feel it': Racism plagues U.S. military academies

By James Laporta, Associated Press

Some graduates of color from the nation’s top military schools who endured what they described as a hostile environment are left questioning the military maxim that all service members wearing the same uniform are equal.

Biden, allies increasingly pushing back at GOP's virus barbs

By Zeke Miller, Associated Press

As public patience wears thin amid the emergence of the new omicron variant and some GOP lawmakers' threats to shut down the government over vaccine requirements, the White House and its allies are seizing on what they see as a…

Alleged Michigan school shooter called to the office before killings but no discipline, says superintendent

By Corey Williams, Ed White, Associated Press

The superintendent of a Michigan school district says no discipline was necessary for a teen who was summoned to the office a few hours before four students were fatally shot.

WATCH: White House COVID-19 task force holds briefing as omicron cases emerge

By Laura Santhanam

Since the World Health Organization designated omicron as a "variant of concern," in part because of its apparent ability to reinfect people, public health officials had said it would be a matter of time before omicron appeared in the U.S.