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  • Anti-abortion doctors urge Supreme Court to keep mifepristone restrictions in place

    Anti-abortion doctors urge Supreme Court to keep mifepristone restrictions in place

     

    A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night’s deadline for the court to act approaches.

    ​A group of doctors opposed to abortion asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to restrict access to a key medication abortion drug while other legal challenges play out, as Wednesday night’s deadline for the court to act approaches. 

  • GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary

    GOP prepared to block vote to replace Feinstein on Senate Judiciary

     

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and aims to set up a floor vote on the issue this afternoon, which Republicans are expected to block.

    ​Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that he hopes to replace Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland and aims to set up a floor vote on the issue this afternoon, which Republicans are expected to block. 

  • Fact check: Trump falsely claims Putin didn’t boast of Russia’s nuclear might during Trump presidency

     

    Former President Donald Trump has tried to mount an argument that he was a formidable deterrent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the foreign leader Trump has for years been criticized for praising and defending. But Trump has been making a demonstrably false claim to support his case.

    ​Former President Donald Trump has tried to mount an argument that he was a formidable deterrent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the foreign leader Trump has for years been criticized for praising and defending. But Trump has been making a demonstrably false claim to support his case. 

  • Biden will sign executive order aimed at expanding access to long-term care and child care

    Biden will sign executive order aimed at expanding access to long-term care and child care

     

    President Joe Biden will sign an executive order in the Rose Garden Tuesday aimed at bolstering the “care economy,” the White House said, issuing more than 50 directives across nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an effort to expand access to long-term care and child care.

    ​President Joe Biden will sign an executive order in the Rose Garden Tuesday aimed at bolstering the “care economy,” the White House said, issuing more than 50 directives across nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an effort to expand access to long-term care and child care. 

  • Supreme Court seems sympathetic to postal worker who didn’t work Sundays in dispute over religious accommodations

    Supreme Court seems sympathetic to postal worker who didn’t work Sundays in dispute over religious accommodations

     

    The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays.

    ​The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays. 

  • Fulton County, Georgia, jail leadership resigns after inmate’s death and accusations of unsanitary conditions

    Fulton County, Georgia, jail leadership resigns after inmate’s death and accusations of unsanitary conditions

     

    Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that “was not fit for a diseased animal.”

    ​Three officials at the Fulton County, Georgia, jail have stepped down amid an investigation into the death of an inmate whose family said was housed in a filthy, bug-infested cell that “was not fit for a diseased animal.” 

  • Democratic congressman has surgery to remove cancerous tumor in his tonsil

    Democratic congressman has surgery to remove cancerous tumor in his tonsil

     

    Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan had surgery Monday to remove a small cancerous tumor in his tonsil, his office said.

    ​Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan had surgery Monday to remove a small cancerous tumor in his tonsil, his office said. 

  • McCarthy makes plea for Republicans to back debt ceiling plan

    McCarthy makes plea for Republicans to back debt ceiling plan

     

    Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn’t have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table.

    ​Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn’t have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table. 

  • China’s economy is off to a solid start, rising 4.5% in Q1 2023

    China’s economy is off to a solid start, rising 4.5% in Q1 2023

     

    China’s economy is off to a solid start in 2023 following its emergence from three years of strict pandemic restrictions.

    ​China’s economy is off to a solid start in 2023 following its emergence from three years of strict pandemic restrictions. 

  • Family of victim and survivors of Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting file lawsuit against gun magazine manufacturer and distributors

    Family of victim and survivors of Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting file lawsuit against gun magazine manufacturer and distributors

     

    The family of a victim and several survivors of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis filed a lawsuit against companies involved in the manufacturing, marketing and sale of the high capacity magazine used by the gunman who killed 8 people and injured several others in 2021.

    ​The family of a victim and several survivors of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis filed a lawsuit against companies involved in the manufacturing, marketing and sale of the high capacity magazine used by the gunman who killed 8 people and injured several others in 2021.