Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Florida, where a six-week abortion ban took effect on Wednesday. Delivering her remarks in Jacksonville, Harris blamed former President Donald Trump for the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 and said the state’s new, more restrictive law is “the new reality under a Trump abortion ban.”
A new EU law means Apple will have to extend its iPhone warranty, and offer all users the same kind of repair or replace service it currently sells as AppleCare. The EU wants to make it easier to repair damaged smartphones Since 2020, the EU has been debating right to repair legislation, and it has been steadily progressing through the system. Now the EU has formally adopted the rules, after a vote saw 584 in favor, 3 against, and 14 abstentions. "Consumers' right to repair products...
The European Union has adopted a right-to-repair directive that will make it easier for consumers to get their devices fixed. The new rules extend a product's guarantee if it breaks under warranty, while obliging manufacturers to repair devices no longer covered. The law still needs to be approved by member nations. Devices sold in Europe already offer minimum two-year warranties, but the new rules impose additional requirements. If a device is repaired under warranty, the customer must be...
By Michelle Fitzpatrick An aide to a German far-right member of the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, German prosecutors said Tuesday, deepening concerns about foreign interference ahead of June’s EU elections. The arrest, coming a day after three other people suspected of spying for China were detained in Germany, […]
An abortion clinic in Jacksonville, Florida grapples with what the future holds in the final hours before the state’s 6-week abortion ban goes into effect.
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84,052. That is the number of abortions reported in Florida in 2023, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. With a six-week ban on abortions taking effect today, abortion providers in other states say they’re already bearing the burden of that demand.
The landslide vote heralds a return to fiscal responsibility after the pandemic era – but some worry new norms could kill vital green investment
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. The lawsuits help dispel a longstanding narrative that racial voting discrimination happens only in the South or in
BY AYANNA ALEXANDER Associated Press FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A new voting rights law in New York is already having a dramatic effect, with lawsuits in several local communities seeking to reverse decades of minority voter disenfranchisement. The lawsuits help dispel a longstanding narrative that racial voting discrimination happens only in the South or in
Lawsuits under New York's new voting rights law reveal racial disenfranchisement even in blue states
FREEPORT, N.Y. (AP) — Weihua Yan had seen dramatic demographic changes since moving to Long Island’s Nassau County. Its Asian American population alone had grown by 60% since the 2010 census. Why then, he wondered, did he not see anyone who looked like him on the county’s local governing body, the 19-member Nassau County Legislature? […]