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As the Supreme Court appears poised to reverse Roe v. Wade and the right to abortion this month, 10 women ages 25 to 82 are sharing their personal abortion experiences. "We are your grandmothers, your mothers, your daughters. And we cannot go back," the group said in unison. In a new video shared by Runaway Train Productions, a number of women recounted the "barbaric" conditions in which they had illegal abortions prior to the procedure becoming a constitutional right, detailing the unsafe conditions they had to rely on. "The doctor found a motel, snuck me in the back and performed...

(CNN)In a setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican lawmakers, a Florida judge has ruled that a new state law banning abortions at 15 weeks is unconstitutional and he intends to block it from taking effect on Friday. In a verbal ruling on Thursday, Second Judicial Circuit Court Judge John Cooper said he would be issuing a temporary statewide injunction that will go into effect once he signs the written order in the challenge brought by some Florida abortion providers. The decision is a short-term victory for abortion rights advocates in Florida and it comes a week after the...

Faced with a deepening personnel crisis within its military, Russia is scrambling to find fighters for its war in Ukraine and recruiting heavily from its North Caucasus region to form new units along ethnic lines who are then deployed with minimal training. Regional officials from Daghestan, Ingushetia, and Kalmykia have announced plans to form rifle companies that are each made up of soldiers from a particular Russian republic. According to reporting by Caucasus.Realities, a regional news outlet of RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service, these national units are formed primarily of contract soldiers who have previous military training and have been targeted...

It seems President Joe Biden made history last month: That's when Sam Brinton announced the administration had hired them as deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the office of nuclear energy for the Department of Energy.Brinton, like many of the people quoted in this article, uses the pronouns they and them, and may be the first openly gender-fluid person in federal government leadership — as they noted on LinkedIn upon accepting the role.

Liz Cheney spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California and condemned Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in the GOP saying you can’t support Trump and the United States Constitution. Liz Cheney received a standing ovation from the Republican crowd.

Walking past the countless photos of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-native Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was passing the faces of his own relatives without even knowing it. For Patt, a 40-year-old software engineer now working for Google, that sort of conundrum presented the potential for a creative solution. And so he set to work creating and developing From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to...

The National Archives Records Administration has placed a "harmful language alert" on records in the website's catalog, including the nation's founding documents. The NARA statement warns readers that the documents they are reading may "contain harmful language that reflects attitudes and biases of their time." Warnings of graphic and violent content in historical documents are also given. "NARA’s records span the history of the United States, and it is our charge to preserve and make available these historical records," NARA states in its alert. "As a result, some of the materials presented here may reflect outdated, biased, offensive, and possibly...

The admission into Nato of... Sweden and Finland... sevenfold increase in Nato forces on high alert, the establishment of the first permanent US operational headquarters (V Corps) on the alliance’s eastern flank in Poland, the increase in the number of US troops in the region, or a new 10-year strategy that dispenses of any notion of partnership with Russia... The French president, Emmanuel Macron, could not have been more blunt in his criticism of Putin, or clearer that avenues to a ceasefire are closed... Biden promised another $800m in defence assistance in the next few days, including a new advanced...

Donald Trump said Mark Meadows' former aide Cassidy Hutchinson is a 'whackjob' with 'mental problems' in his first interview since the ex-White House staffer testified before the January 6 committee. Speaking to Newsmax on Thursday, The former president disputed Hutchinson's claim that he 'lunged' for the steering wheel of his limo and then at a Secret Service agent after they refused to follow his supporters to the US Capitol the day of last year's insurrection. Trump said he couldn't have attacked an agent, bluntly stating, 'these guys lift 350 pounds - I don't.'

Andy Puzder is a former CEO of CKE Restaurants, chairman of 2ndVote Value Investments, Inc., and a senior fellow at the America First Policy Institute. Jim Talent is a former U.S. senator from Missouri and the Chairman of the Reagan Institute's National Leadership Council The outlook for the U.S. economy is bad and potentially getting worse.

President Joe Biden considered a Republican running mate for 2020 in secret conversations with a top donor, DailyMail.com can reveal. Walmart board chairman Greg Penner, who has donated over $640,000 to political campaigns since 1999, had back-channel talks with Hunter Biden in 2018 and 2019 to set up Joe with Republican former Ohio governor John Kasich for a bipartisan presidential ticket. The plot, revealed in text messages, emails, and a phone call recording on Hunter's abandoned laptop, gives an insight into political strategies the president considered in an attempt to win the White House.

A survey from the respected, Left-leaning Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) shows that British undergraduates have caught up with the craziness of their North American counterparts. If policymakers don’t act quickly, Britain is likely to become a substantially less free society. The Hepi report finds that 61% of British students think that “when in doubt” their university “should ensure all students are protected from discrimination rather than allow unlimited free speech”. Just 17% back the free speech position. This 61-17 slant represents a big change from the already illiberal 37-27 margin recorded in 2016. Among the other findings: The proportion...

California Gov. Newsom defiantly vows to double down on California’s climate change policies

A woman attempted to smuggle two pounds of drugs into a Florida prison, officials said. 44-year-old Melissa Webster of Tallahassee brought her infant grandchild, and 100 grams of cocaine and heroin to a DeSoto Correctional Institution visitation on Sunday, according to a statement by the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office (DSCO). Webster was arrested when officers found the drugs during the check-in process. A DCSO K9 conducted a "free air sniff" and found an additional 690 grams of heroin and cocaine in Webster’s vehicle in the parking lot.

NEW YORK, June 30 (Reuters) - Wall Street slid into the finish line of a dismal month and quarter on Thursday as a continued sell-off put a grim punctuation mark at the close of the S&P 500's worst first-half in more than half a century. All three major U.S. stock indexes were down but off session lows on the last day of the month and the second quarter, putting S&P 500 has set a course for its steepest first-half percentage drop since at least 1970. The Nasdaq was on its way to its worst-ever first-half performance, while the Dow appeared...

President Joe Biden on Thursday tried to distance himself once again from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying he would only meet with him as part of a larger group when he's in Jeddah next month. And, the president emphasized, the purpose of his trip was not to meet the Saudi royals - including aging King Salman - but to attend a meeting of the GCC plus 3 summit to talk oil production. Biden pushed back when asked if he would hold Saudi Arabia accountable for human rights abuses while, at the same time, push them to release more...

Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Matthew 9:1-8 Friends, in today’s Gospel, the Lord heals a paralytic after first forgiving his sins. Jesus’ initial words to this paralyzed man are, "Your sins are forgiven." Why does God forgive our sins? Because he wants us alive, he wants us moving, he wants us in action, realizing what we can be. Jesus comes to liberate us for deeper life, to open a new future to us. Sin is a refusal to live according to God’s purposes and desires. Our obsession with past sins paralyzes us. God is opposed to this obsession with the...

“This race, to me, is worthy of being a national story,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. “The fact that you have a Republican as the favorite right now is mindboggling, and it speaks to what’s going on in the country.”Here’s a breakdown of how each Democrat fares against Fung:Fung 44.9 percent, Magaziner 38.5 percent Fung 43.2 percent, Morgenthau 34.5 percent Fung 44.6 percent, Segal 34.5 percent Fung 44.6 percent, Fox 34 percent Fung 44.2 percent, Bah 33.8 percent Fung 45.8 percent, Moquin 32.1 percentThe cellphone and landline poll was conducted June 19 to June...

They should have cut off an ear Huge win on climate change from Supreme Court… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/huge-win-at-supreme-court-on-climate-change/

At this point, there has been no update or disclosure from the Supreme Court on the identity of the individual who leaked the draft opinion.