• What’s at stake in emergency abortion care case before US supreme court?

    The justices must decide whether Idaho doctors can terminate a pregnancy to save a woman’s health or only if her life is at riskThe supreme court heard its second abortion rights case of the term on Wednesday, this one focused on how states can regulate emergency abortions – exceedingly rare procedures that often save a woman’s life or her future fertility.The case may seem technical because it focuses on a small subset of emergency abortions and federal law that governs emergency room care....

  • Supreme Court Grills Government on US Law Requiring Emergency Care: Does It Trump State Law Restricting Abortion?

    The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in two consolidated cases, Moyle v. Idaho and Idaho v. United States, to determine whether a federal law governing Read More

  • Spain and Italy clash over abortion laws

    Italy's prime minister hits back at Spanish criticism of a bill allowing anti-abortion groups in clinics.

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    Arizona outlaws abortion using law from 1864

    The Arizona Supreme Court has reinstated a criminal law from 1864 that nearly completely banned abortions in the state, resulting in a near-total ban that will be enforceable in 45 days.

  • Murphy’s Law: The Return of County Cronyism

    Or maybe it never went away. Push for 36% salary hikes echoes mentality behind infamous county pension plan.

  • Biden Blames Trump for Florida's 'Nightmare' Abortion Law

    President Joe Biden went on the attack against Donald Trump while campaigning in Tampa, Florida, on Tuesday, blaming the former president for the state's six-week abortion ban set to begin next week."Next week, one of the nation's most extreme anti-abortion laws takes effect here in Florida," Biden told supporters at Hillsborough Community College, according to a report from Roll Call. "It's criminalizing reproductive health care before women even know whether they're pregnant. I mean, this is...

  • Some pharmacists fear jail time over murky abortion laws

    Alarm bells ring in Matt Murray’s head when a prescription for misoprostol comes through his independent pharmacy in Boise, Idaho. “Are there directions on the prescription that show what it’s being used for?” said Murray, a pharmacist and director of operations for Customedica Pharmacy. “If not, then we would probably need to call the [doctor’s] office and confirm why it’s being prescribed.” The medication is legal — approved by the Food and Drug Administration to prevent stomach ulcers — but...

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    1864 law may send people out of state for abortions

    With a near total ban about to kick in in Arizona, abortion providers are keeping an eye on options in other states.

  • Where Does Kari Lake Stand On Arizona Abortion Law? Depends Who She Is Talking To

    A local Arizona news outlet published a story last week highlighting remarks the Republican Senate candidate and election denier Kari Lake made to a crowd at an event put on by the Mohave County

  • Boris Becker ‘working hard with the authorities’ to return to Wimbledon in 2025

    The three-time Wimbledon champion was deported from the UK in December 2022 after serving eight months of a two-and-a-half-year sentence.

  • Georgia prosecutors renew challenge of a law they say undermines their authority

    Three district attorneys in Georgia have renewed their challenge of a commission created to discipline and remove state prosecutors, arguing it violates the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. Their lawsuits filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta challenge Georgia’s Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, a body Republican lawmakers revived this year after originally creating it

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    The Supreme Court is likely to place Donald Trump above the law in its immunity case

    Thursday’s argument in Trump v. United States was a disaster for Special Counsel Jack Smith, and for anyone who believes that the president of the United States should be subject to prosecution if they commit a crime. At least five of the Court’s Republicans seemed eager to, at the very least, permit Trump to delay his federal criminal trial for attempting to steal the 2020 election until after this November’s election. And the one GOP appointee who seemed to hedge the most, Chief Justice John...