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Kevin Daley – A coalition of 207 lawmakers from both houses of Congress filed a legal brief pressing the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision creating abortion rights. – The brief argues abortion case law is “radically unsettled” and should be fundamentally reconsidered. – The filing was submitted in a…
Andrew Kerr Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was planning “imminent attacks” that could have killed hundreds of Americans prior to being killed in an airstrike near Baghdad’s airport Friday, a senior U.S. official said. The planned attacks would have targeted American facilities and workers in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other…
Peter Hasson Hollywood actress Rose McGowan apologized to the Islamic Republic of Iran for the death of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force and a designated terrorist believed to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American service members. “Dear #Iran, The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52%…
Mary Margaret Olohan – Baby Tinslee Lewis was born in February with severe medical problems and has been kept on life support ever since. – Physicians at a Texas hospital, Cook Children’s Medical Center, say that the baby is in pain and there is nothing to be done for her. – A court ruled Thursday,…
Peter Hasson Vox founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein capped off his year by spreading misleading information in a viral tweet Tuesday. Klein tweeted out a nine-month-old Washington Post article stating counties that hosted Trump rallies saw massive spikes in hate crimes compared to counties that didn’t host Trump rallies. Klein’s tweet garnered more than 7,000 retweets and…
Peter Hasson Former Vice President Joe Biden suggested Monday that displaced coal miners should learn to code. “Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden said at a New Hampshire event Monday. He added later: “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to…
Chris White Ireland is fast-tracking legislation that will effectively ban all gas-powered vehicles within a decade, leaving customers who are buying cars in January confused about what to do next, local reports show. The country’s Climate Action Minister Richard Bruton plans to publish the Climate Action (Amendment) Bill 2019 enforcing such a ban, the Independent.ie reported Monday….
Mary Margaret Olohan Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed hate “emanating from Washington” Sunday for anti-Semitic attacks throughout the country. The New York City mayor told Fox News’s Ed Henry on “America’s News HQ” that the hate coming from Washington is “having an effect on all of us.” “I also want us…
Amid the drama surrounding impeachment, both parties came together on one area of shared support: spending enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars and adding to the $23.1 trillion national debt. Congress had little time to properly review fiscal 2020 spending bills, which weighed in at more than 2,000 pages of clunky text. The legislation contained a multitude of flaws,…
Kevin Daley An Illinois woman will soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her challenge to a state law barring the non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, colloquially known as “revenge porn.” Though the Supreme Court’s First Amendment precedents are generally protective of explicit or obscene images, the justices may consider the constitutionality of…