The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday against warrantless searches by police and seizures in the home in a case brought by a man whose guns officers confiscated after a domestic dispute.

“The very core of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee is the right of a person to retreat into his or her home and ‘there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion,’ ” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court.

The case involved a heated argument between a long-married couple, Edward and Kim Caniglia. He brought out a gun and told her to shoot him to put him out of his “misery.” Then after he left the house in a huff, she hid the gun and spent the night in a motel. The next morning, unable to reach her husband, she asked police to escort her home because she was afraid he might have harmed himself.

Police found the husband on the front porch and sent him for a psychological evaluation. Later that day, doctors concluded he was not a threat to himself or others and released him. In the meantime, police had confiscated his guns and ammunition. So he sued, alleging an illegal search and seizure of his home.

The lower courts ruled that police could enter the home and under the so-called the community caretaking exception to the Constitution’s warrant requirement. But Thomas, writing for the unanimous court, noted that the “recognition that police officers perform many civic tasks in modern society was just that — a recognition that these tasks exist, and not an open-ended license to perform them anywhere.”

“What is reasonable for vehicles is different from what is reasonable for homes,” he wrote.

With Roe v. Wade hanging by a thread, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a major rollback of abortion rights.

It is the second time in weeks that the court’s new conservative majority has signaled a willingness to reconsider long-established legal doctrine, this time on abortion, and just weeks ago, on guns.

The court said Monday it would review next term whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. The court’s 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade declared that a woman has a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy in the first six months when the fetus is incapable of surviving outside the womb.

The test case is from Mississippi, which bans most abortions after 15 weeks, significantly before fetal viability. A panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative in the country, blocked enforcement of the law, finding it in conflict with Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion decisions.

The Mississippi case has been sitting on the court’s docket awaiting disposition for months, with the state urging the justices to use the state’s appeal as a vehicle for reconsidering its abortion jurisprudence. There is no indication of why the court stayed its hand for so long, but it may have been waiting for oral arguments for the term to be over before taking action.

Mississippi’s law is one of many that conservative states have passed in the last year seeking to eliminate or severely restrict abortion.

“The consequences of a Roe reversal would be devastating,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “Over 20 states would prohibit abortion outright. Eleven states — including Mississippi — currently have trigger bans on the books which would instantaneously ban abortion if Roe is overturned.”

Bans on pre-viability abortion bans have been struck down, until now, in a dozen states since 2019, including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Tennessee.

In 2016, the Supreme Court let stand similar rulings that struck down a six-week ban in North Dakota and a 12-week ban in Arkansas. That same year, the court struck down a Texas law that made it difficult and expensive for clinics that perform abortions to function.

But since then, the composition of the court has changed dramatically, with the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a major advocate of reproductive rights; the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, a centrist conservative who supported abortion rights; and the addition of three Trump appointees to the court.

Bottom line: The court now has a 6-3 conservative majority, with all of the six having taken positions hostile to abortion rights at one time or another, and the newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, the most outspoken critic of abortion before joining the high court.

The 6-3 majority means that conservatives can lose one of their own on this issue and still prevail. That wasn’t the case as long as Chief Justice John Roberts held the deciding vote. Though he has never been a supporter of abortion rights, his approach has always been to whittle away at Roe, slowly eroding the rights tiny piece by tiny piece. But with Monday’s decision to take on the whole question of pre-viability abortion, that approach may now be on the way out, and a more direct approach on the way in — namely overturning Roe.

On a recent Monday morning, Miami International Airport looked hectic as people rushed to their flights. You could hear baggage claim announcements, passengers frantically asking about the zone for their international flights and personnel directing them. But airport staff and some travelers were stepping away from the chaos to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

Nearby, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava spoke during a press conference about offering vaccines here to make it easy.

“It’s pop up, pop up — wherever people are that’s where we will be to make sure that no one has an excuse to not take the shot,” she said.

In most of the U.S., the initial scramble to get a coronavirus vaccine is over, so the campaign to convince or reach those who haven’t gotten shots yet continues to ramp up. People who study infectious disease worry that the numbers for first doses are slowing down, so efforts are underway to persuade more people to roll up their sleeves in Miami-Dade, the state’s largest county.

Outside the airport, near lines of parked yellow cabs, you could hear Haitian Creole spoken and dominoes being slammed onto a table.

One of the domino players was Tony Brutus, who was finally able to play with other drivers because he had gotten his first Pfizer dose at this airport parking lot. Brutus wasn’t allowed to play till he got inoculated.

He had tried before to get a shot but one site ran out of vaccines and another had already closed.

“One customer from New York told me that last week — every taxi driver in New York is taking the vaccine already,” Brutus said. “So that means we were behind in Miami, in Florida.”

Florida’s vaccination numbers have been dropping since April. They’re low for younger adults, who now make up most of COVID-19 patients at hospitals.

People who work multiple jobs or who don’t earn much struggle to get to vaccination sites, said Cindy Prins, an epidemiologist at the University of Florida.

“Now it really is about understanding the nuances of our populations, of their needs, of their motivating factors and reaching them where they are, bringing it to them,” Prins said.

Angel Sánchez, a busy single dad who works construction, didn’t have a chance to look for a vaccine site.

“I had the luck to come to the beach and get vaccinated here,” he said as he sat down for 15 minutes after getting his Johnson & Johnson shot.

On this trip to Miami Beach with his two sons, the city was offering shots right on the sand.

“I’m really happy I got one. My sons are with me so I took advantage of it and I feel good because of this,” Sánchez said.

Vaccination rates for Hispanic Floridians are far behind those for white residents, while even further behind is the vaccination rate for Black people. Of the more than 9.4 million people vaccinated in Florida, about 7% are Black, while two-thirds are White.

In Miami Gardens, Florida’s largest majority Black city, members of Black fraternities and sororities, called the Divine Nine, were recruiting people with food and “get vaccinated” posters.

People were dancing near a DJ who played music and urged people to tell others to come out and get their COVID-19 vaccine. The site has a Black doctor and Black nurses to help people feel comfortable.

Florida state Rep. Christopher Benjamin, whose district includes Miami Gardens, was wearing his purple Omega Psi Phi shirt.

“We want to dispel myths about the vaccine,” Benjamin said. “We want to encourage folks in the Black community to come out and get vaccinated because we know that there’s some vaccine hesitancy in our community. So the leaders of our community are out here to say it’s OK, it’s safe.”

Now that 12- to 15-year-olds are eligible for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, epidemiologists say, that will help boost Florida’s rates. Miami-Dade County is offering shots at some high schools and the University of Miami has a mobile pediatric unit heading to churches and underserved neighborhoods so that parents don’t have to go far.

Microsoft’s board of directors hired a private law firm to investigate a decades-old “intimate relationship” Bill Gates had with a company employee. The investigation, according to a company spokesman, took place in the months before the billionaire resigned from the board last year.

“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” a company spokesman told NPR. “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”

A story on Sunday in The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft’s board decided that Gates should step down while the prior romantic relationship, that was deemed to be “inappropriate,” was still being reviewed.

A spokeswoman for Gates, however, denied any connection between his departure and the board’s investigation.

“There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably. Bill’s decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter,” a Gates spokesperson wrote in a statement shared with NPR. “In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.”

Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the wealthiest people in the world estimated to be worth nearly $130 billion, has attracted new scrutiny in recent weeks following his divorce from Melinda Gates earlier this month, ending a 27-year marriage. The marriage was “irretrievably broken” Melinda Gates wrote in a court filing.

A report in The New York Times on Sunday detailed how Gates allegedly “pursued” several women connected to Microsoft and his foundation, developing “a reputation for questionable conduct in work-related settings,” the paper reported.

But, according to the Times, it was Gates’ friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — whom Gates allegedly stayed close to even after Epstein was convicted for soliciting sex with girls as young as 14 — that upset Melinda Gates, reportedly setting in motion the divorce process.

That sequence of events is disputed by a Gates spokesperson.

“It is extremely disappointing that there have been so many untruths published about the cause, the circumstances and the timeline of Bill Gates’ divorce,” the Gates spokesperson told NPR. “The rumors and speculation surrounding Gates’ divorce are becoming increasingly absurd and it’s unfortunate that people who have little to no knowledge of the situation are being characterized as ‘sources.’

Gates, 65, who warned about the dangers of deadly infectious viruses years before the coronavirus pandemic, said in March 2020 that he was stepping away from the Microsoft board and leaving his board seat at Berkshire Hathaway to devote more time to philanthropic causes, including global health and climate change initiatives.

Gates’ resignation came three months after the Microsoft board had re-elected him to his seat.

Editor’s note: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is among NPR’s financial supporters.