Author: Beaker

A Penn­syl­va­nia appeals court on Mon­day struck down a law pro­hibit­ing state Med­ic­aid dol­lars from cov­er­ing elec­tive abor­tions, inten­si­fy­ing the con­flict over abor­tion access in the com­mon­wealth. In a 4–3 rul­ing, the Com­mon­wealth Court of Penn­syl­va­nia, one of the state’s appeals courts, rec­og­nized a fun­da­men­tal right to “repro­duc­tive auton­o­my” in a long-await­­ed case on whether the […]

For­mer Vir­ginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ® is inten­si­fy­ing his oppo­si­tion to a pro­posed state con­sti­tu­tion­al amend­ment on redis­trict­ing, urg­ing vot­ers to reject what he describes as a “ger­ry­man­dered grab of pow­er” ahead of the vote on Tuesday.Youngkin argued the mea­sure would undo the state’s 2020 con­sti­tu­tion­al reform that estab­lished an inde­pen­dent redis­trict­ing process. That amend­ment, […]

Kevin Warsh, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s pick to lead the Fed­er­al Reserve, will pledge to defend the cen­tral bank’s inde­pen­dence at his con­fir­ma­tion hear­ing, accord­ing to tes­ti­mo­ny pre­pared for the event.Warsh’s tes­ti­mo­ny doesn’t men­tion low­er­ing inter­est rates, as Trump has sought.Warsh, a 56-year-old for­mer Fed gov­er­nor, will tell law­mak­ers on the Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Bank­ing, Hous­ing, […]

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump reject­ed claims that Israel pres­sured the Unit­ed States into ini­ti­at­ing Oper­a­tion Epic Fury, a joint oper­a­tion that launched the Iran war in late February.“Israel nev­er talked me into the war with Iran, the results of Oct. 7th, added to my life­long opin­ion that IRAN CAN NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON, did,” Trump […]

FBI Direc­tor Kash Patel filed a $250 mil­lion defama­tion law­suit against the Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitz­patrick on Mon­day after the mag­a­zine report­ed that he had a drink­ing prob­lem that could threat­en nation­al secu­ri­ty, in addi­tion to alle­ga­tions that he had been dif­fi­cult to find on dif­fer­ent occasions.The 19-page law­suit, filed in the U.S. Dis­trict […]