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On Friday, June 24, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Dobbs ruling was significant, for two reasons: It settled a question regarding abortion at the national level: that it’s not the federal government’s business, so it’s up to the states. Also, since it overturned a 50-year-old ruling, it reminds both the general public and future courts that our respect for precedent should not be so blind as to allow blatantly unfounded rulings to stand if a chance comes up to correct the error. The outcry was loud and immediate, and no wonder:...

TOKYO -- Honda Motor and three Japanese rivals plan to discontinue about 20 motorcycle models by the end of this year, Nikkei has learned, in response to tougher emissions standards to be implemented in Japan in the fall. The retired motorbikes represent 10% of the roughly 190 models available from Honda, Yamaha Motor, Suzuki Motor and Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Going forward, the companies will shift to electrics. Honda will electrify its entire lineup of vehicles by the 2040s. Yamaha will make 90% of new vehicles plug-ins by 2050. Honda, the world's largest motorcycle company, will retire approximately 10 out of...

Former President Donald Trump is not the only member of his family targeted by Big Tech. Meta-owned Instagram flagged Donald Trump Jr.’s account for supposedly spreading “false information.” MRC Free Speech America confirmed that Instagram made it more difficult for users to follow or mention Trump Jr.’s account. “Are you sure you want to follow donaldjtrumpjr?” an Instagram pop-up asked an MRC employee attempting to follow the account. A subsequent attempt to mention the account in an Instagram post triggered a pop-up asking, “Do you want to @mention this account?” Despite these hurdles, users can still follow or mention the...

A man who complained there was too much mayonnaise on his sandwich opened fire at an Atlanta sandwich shop, killing one employee and injuring another, police said. The shooting happened around 6.30pm Sunday at a Subway restaurant attached to a petrol station in downtown Atlanta. Police said the man argued with the two female workers before shooting them. “This was a very tragic situation that did not have to occur,” Atlanta police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jnr told reporters on Monday. He said a 36-year-old man believed to be the shooter was arrested near the restaurant on Sunday evening after...

Carefully vetting every single piece of user-generated content (UGC) before it’s allowed to be posted to a website is a daunting task. But China is clearly up for the challenge. The country’s so-called Cyberspace Administration has released a new policy that requires all comments on websites to be approved before they’re published. The new rules were outlined in a document published last week entitled: ‘Provisions on the Administration of Internet Thread Commenting Services’. It will mean any company or individual that runs a website where people can post comments will need to hire ‘a review and editing team suitable for...

On May 31, lawyers for Harvard University asked US District Court Judge Judith G. Dein to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by three graduate students in February. The students—Lilia Kilburn, Margaret Czerwienski and Amulya Mandava—claim that Harvard “ignored” sexual harassment and retaliation directed against them by anthropology professor John Comaroff. The lawsuit is entirely without merit, consisting of a heap of unsubstantiated allegations, gossip, innuendo and worse, as the WSWS has previously argued. Kilburn alleges that Comaroff sexually harassed her, and Mandava and Czerwienski claim that Comaroff retaliated against them when they began speaking about his alleged sexual misconduct. A...

Celebrated evangelical leader Franklin Graham has publicly thanked Donald Trump and Mike Pence for “all they did to make the Supreme Court decision ending Roe v. Wade possible.” In a Facebook post this weekend, Rev. Graham said that the Trump presidency “was the most pro-life administration in my lifetime!”, adding that his appointment of conservative judges across this country “will have an impact for years to come.”

Pelosi, the speaker of the US House, labels the Supreme Court an "extremist" body that punishes the American people.

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, June 27 (Reuters) - Two top OPEC oil producers, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, can barely increase oil production, French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he had been told by the UAE's president. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been perceived as the only two countries in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) with spare capacity to boost global deliveries that could reduce prices. "I had a call with MbZ," Macron was heard telling U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G7 summit, using shorthand for UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin...

Four-time Grand Slam tennis champ Naomi Osaka is being hit with backlash over the unintentionally — or cluelessly, depending on whom you ask — offensive name of her new media company, Hana Kuma. ...Hana kuma means “flower bear” in Japanese — but Twitter users quickly noted it has a far more explicit meaning in Swahili, where it translates to “woman without a vagina.” The lost-in-translation controversy began trending on Twitter in multiple African countries...

And when do we start getting answers to real questions? The other day Joe Biden mindlessly held up a note card which gave him instructions on what to do during an event. It is a stark warning to the country that the President of the United States does not have the mental capacity to conduct his duties of office. The staff has to instruct the President to enter a room? The President needs to be instructed to sit down? Seriously? This is not a new phenomenon. Jen Psaki's ridiculous argument last January was quite telling but it was overlooked. Biden...

Kenneth “Ken” Williams, who wrote or co-wrote more than 500 songs including the classic 1972 hit “Everybody Plays the Fool” recorded by The Main Ingredient with lead vocals by Cuba Gooding Sr., died June 17 following a long non-Covid illness at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. He was 83. His death was announced by his wife, the Broadway actress and singer Mary Seymour Williams. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery Although most widely known for “Everybody Plays the Fool,” the classic R&B song he co-wrote with Rudy Clark and J.R. Bailey, Williams was a prolific songwriter,...

Four-time Grand Slam tennis champ Naomi Osaka is being hit with backlash over the unintentionally — or cluelessly, depending on whom you ask — offensive name of her new media company, Hana Kuma.

An argument over mayonnaise at a Downtown Atlanta Subway ended with one worker dead and another in the hospital. Police say the shooting happened around 6:30 p.m. at a Subway located at a gas station on Northside Drive Southwest. The owner of the Subway says the reason for the shooting was something small: a customer was mad about mayo.

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California will become the first state to remove immigration status as a barrier to health care, making all low-income undocumented residents eligible for state-subsidized insurance regardless of age. Gov. Gavin Newsom late Sunday announced a budget deal he struck with the Legislature included a new Medi-Cal expansion that would cover more undocumented adults. The program’s launch, starting no later than Jan. 1, 2024, is expected to provide full coverage for approximately 700,000 undocumented residents ages 26-49 and lead to the largest drop in the rate of uninsured Californians in a decade. “This historic investment speaks to California’s commitment to healthcare...

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Since the news broke that the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, some pro-abortion activists have responded by vandalizing Catholic churches and disturbing Masses. ... sartorial choices of some of the activists (dresses inspired by a sermonizing Margaret Atwood novel) speak to the infantilism of our age. ...In striking at the Catholic Church at worship, the protesters have identified an obvious player in the history of anti-abortion activism. The Catholic Church, and many Catholics, from high-profile figures such as Robert George to countless unknown laypeople who help at crisis pregnancy centers or engage in fundraising work,...

SEASIDE, Fla. - Authorities have identified "key players" in the break-in of an $8 million Florida mansion – where a group of more than 200 rowdy teens threw an unsanctioned house party on Friday. "We tracked down the key players in our investigation and will be interviewing them today," Walton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Corey Dobridnia told Fox News Digital. "We're narrowing down today who were the ringleaders and who could be facing charges," she added. The owners of the Santa Rosa Beach mansion were out of town last Friday when a group of teens broke in and threw a...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has applied to join BRICS, a loose group of five industrializing non-European nations, after being invited to its summit in China last week.