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**_The explosions in Toropets, in the Tver region, were so intense that they were picked up by NASA satellites and earthquake monitors._** A [Ukrainian drone attack](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-uses-dragon-drones-spew-feiry-substance-russias-frontlines-rcna170193) on a Russian missile facility early Wednesday threw up towering fireballs visible from space and thundering detonations that triggered earthquake monitors. Even by the standards of this incendiary conflict, video showing the blasts north of Moscow made for remarkable footage. Officials on both sides said it was the result of [a large Ukrainian drone attack](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-ukraine-win-war-debate-harris-blinken-kyiv-russia-strikes-rcna170561) on Toropets, a town in the Tver region around 230 miles from the Russian capital. Russian state media has previously reported that [the military](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-orders-russian-army-expand-war-ukraine-rcna171429) was building an arsenal for storing missiles and other explosives there.
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- Government data released ahead of Japan’s “Respect for the Aged Day” showed that the country’s population aged 65 and over had risen to an all-time high of 36.25 million. - According to Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, the data fuels concerns about demographic shifts and a labor crunch in the country.
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The notion that Americans should dial down their incendiary rhetoric is undeniable, but that message cannot be delivered credibly by the person who literally sent a mob to the US Capitol, and then sat back and cheered the thugs who assaulted cops for three hours. The plea to ease up on hate speech cannot be made by the guy who invented a patois of political violence, who prods supporters to assault hecklers, threatens to shoot undocumented immigrants and looters, jeers the husband of a rival who was assaulted with a hammer, and refers to opposition as “vermin.” And the idea that the toxic talk has gone too far sounds hollow coming from a demagogue who thinks Hillary Clinton’s fate might best be settled by “Second Amendment people,” that Liz Cheney should be sent before a military tribunal, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, should be executed. This is the political atmosphere that Donald Trump has nurtured, so when he whines about how “the rhetoric of Biden and Harris” has inspired two troubled people (both likely Republicans) to shoot at him with assault rifles, it can be dismissed as **one of the most pitiful attempts at gaslighting from a deranged felon who has made a career of it.** --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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The explosion was the second in a week in Cologne's city center. Police said it was still too early to say if there was a connection. Sniffer dogs were on the site as officers investigated.
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JD Vance has suggested that American support for NATO should be predicated on the European Union not regulating Elon Musk and his [X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elon-musk-twitter-trump-assassination-b2614232.html). The Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio senator claimed in an interview with YouTuber Shawn Ryan that a top EU official had threatened to arrest the billionaire if he allowed former President Donald Trump back on X. “The leader, I forget exactly which official it was within the European Union, but sent Elon this threatening letter that basically said, ‘We’re going to arrest you if you platform Donald Trump,’ who, by the way, is the likely next president of the United States,” Vance said in the interview published last week. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
The 30-year-old was attacked some 500 kilometers off the coast of Gran Canaria. She lost a leg in the attack and suffered a heart attack before a Spanish rescue helicopter could get her to hospital.
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***Trump claims to be a “leader on fertilization.” His party wants to leave it up to the whims of states, with disastrous consequences.*** Trump told many lies at [last week's debate](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/kamala-harris-donald-trump-debate/) against Vice President Kamala Harris. One, it seems increasingly clear, is the stumbling claim---meant to shore up his support of in vitro fertilization, or IVF---that he is "a leader on fertilization." On Tuesday, **Senate Republicans provided even more evidence of Trump's lie, by voting---*[again](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/ivf-republicans/)*---to block a floor vote on a bill that would protect IVF access nationwide**. Introduced by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who said she used IVF to give birth to her two daughters, the [legislation](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4445/titles) would prevent states from enacting restrictions on fertility treatments. Trump has done far more to impede IVF access than protect it. He is, in fact, the reason it's in the news at all: Trump [appointed](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/trump-helped-overturn-roe-now-he-wants-to-run-away-from-the-consequences/) three of the five conservative Supreme Court justices who [overruled](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/scotus-dobbs-abortion-ruling-roe-dead/) *Roe* in *Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization*, imperiling IVF access in states like Alabama. (The state's Supreme Court [ruled](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/alabama-supreme-court-fetal-personhood-ivf-fetal-personhood/) in February that frozen embryos, often discarded in the IVF process, could be considered children under state law.) --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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US brand Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy as it struggles to survive in the face of sliding sales. The food storage container firm said it will ask for court permission to start a sale of the business and that it aimed to continue operating. The 78-year-old firm has become so synonymous with food storage that many people use its name when referring to any old plastic container. Despite attempts to freshen up its products in recent years and reposition itself to a younger audience, it has failed to stand out from competitors.
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***Florida Judge Aileen Cannon failed to disclose lavish trips hosted by influential conservative law school*** Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon failed to disclose her attendance at several right-wing judicial seminars — including one that took place **after she began overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, which she ultimately threw out — in apparent violation of federal court rules**. According to a Tuesday [report from *ProPublica*](https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-documents-case-travel-disclosures), in May of 2023, Cannon attended a swanky banquet hosted by George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School --- one of the leading conservative law schools in the nation. The school was renamed in honor of the late Supreme Court justice after [a $20 million donation](https://www.propublica.org/article/barre-seid-heartland-institute-hillsdale-college-gmu) brokered by Supreme Court architect Leonard Leo, who controls a billion-dollar dark money fund and serves as co-chair chairman of of the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative lawyers network. Cannon, a longtime member of the Federalist Society, attended a lecture and dinner alongside members of the society, Scalia's family members, and prominent federal judges, according to materials obtained by *ProPublica*. Cannon submitted several reimbursement requests to the law school related to her travel expenses. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) tore into Republicans as **many of them blame the Democrats' rhetoric for the second assassination attempt** on former President Trump. Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing at his resort in Florida on Sunday. No one was hurt, but Trump has since blamed Democrat rhetoric for the second attempt on his life in just two months. CNN's Jim Acosta on Monday asked Sherrill Monday whether the protection around the former president [needs to change](https://x.com/jeffstorobinsky/status/1835688177194999986 "https://x.com/jeffstorobinsky/status/1835688177194999986") in the wake of the latest incident. She suggested that the attempted assassination stemmed from the GOP's rhetoric and the availability of assault rifles in the country. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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**_People who consumed 200 to 300 milligrams of caffeine a day were less likely to develop coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes or stroke._** There are certain studies that coffee lovers, well, love. This is one of them: Drinking several cups of caffeinated coffee or tea a day may protect against Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke. The findings, published Tuesday in the [Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism](https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgae552/7754545), add to [existing research](https://www.nbc.com/today/video/drinking-coffee-daily-lowers-risk-of-heart-disease-new-study-finds/119877659) suggesting that daily coffee drinkers have better heart health than nondrinkers — provided they [don’t drink too much](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/much-coffee-much-four-experts-weigh-rcna99847) caffeine.
Several people have lost their lives in forest fires that have been raging in Portugal since the weekend. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to combat the flames
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New York police have defended their actions after a bystander was shot in the head as two officers tackled a fare-evader armed with a knife in a busy subway station. The man was in critical condition after the shooting at Sutter Avenue L station in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon. Three others, including the suspect, were wounded.
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**_Millions of Americans will vote this fall – but six Republican justices might have the final say, in a Bush v Gore redux_** It’s frighteningly easy to imagine. Kamala Harris wins Georgia. The state elections board, under the sway of its new [Trump-aligned](https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/georgia-election-board-rules/index.html) commissioners, grinds the certification process to [a slow halt](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/23/trump-election-interference-georgia-arizona/) to investigate unfounded fraud allegations, spurring the state’s Republican legislature to select its own slate of electors. Perhaps long lines in Philadelphia lead to the state supreme court holding polls open until everyone has a chance to vote. Before anyone knows the results, Republicans appeal to the [US supreme court](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-supreme-court) using the “independent state legislature” (ISL) theory, insisting that the state court overstepped its bounds and the late votes not be counted. Or maybe an election evening fire at a vote counting center in Milwaukee disrupts balloting. The progressive majority on the state supreme court attempts to establish a new location, but [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) ask the US supreme court to shut it down. Maybe that last example was [inspired by HBO’s Succession](https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/2023/05/14/wisconsin-election-story-line-becomes-heart-of-succession-episode/70217377007/). But in this crazy year, who’s to say it couldn’t happen? The real concern is this: if you think a repeat of *Bush v Gore* can’t happen this year, think again. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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Donald Trump on Friday said he does not enjoy running for president and criticized state and federal prosecutors for not offering him plea deals, capping a rough seven days for the Republican presidential nominee. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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***Emmitt Martin III testified he wrongfully told his colleagues that the 29-year-old was a violent offender before they pulled him over and beat him.*** Police officers violated protocol when they used excessive force against [Tyre Nichols](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/opening-statements-are-set-trial-3-ex-memphis-officers-charged-tyre-ni-rcna170559) and overstated his actions, a former officer who has pleaded guilty in the case testified. [Emmitt Martin III](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-memphis-police-officer-set-change-plea-tyre-nichols-beating-dea-rcna167992), who initiated the traffic stop against Nichols, said in federal court Monday that Nichols never posed a threat and that officers downplayed their own actions during the Jan. 7, 2023 encounter, which led to Nichols' brutal beating and subsequent death. Martin testified he was angry that night because he hadn't yet made an arrest, but then he noticed Nichols driving a little fast as a traffic light was turning red and saw him changing lanes without signaling.
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***The Iran-backed militant group said handheld communication devices belonging to its members had blown up across the country.*** The militant group [Hezbollah](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-iran-hezbollah-lebanon-militant-group-rcna120092) said Tuesday that pagers belonging to its members [had blown up across Lebanon](https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/justice-law/721975/numerous-injuries-after-pager-devices-exploded-in), killing at least eight and injuring more than 2,700, according to the country's Health Ministry. Iran-backed Hezbollah pinned the blame for the widespread and seemingly simultaneous blasts on Israel, without providing evidence for its claim. Israel did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the accusations and the pager explosions. More than 200 people were in critical condition after the blasts, [Public Health Minister Dr. Firas Abiad](https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/justice-law/722027/public-health-minister-more-than-2-800-wounded-8-m) told reporters. Amid what was developing into a nationwide health emergency, Lebanese officials ordered the public to avoid using handheld communication devices. **Mojtaba Amani, Iran's ambassador to Lebanon, was among those injured, according to the country's embassy**. [In an post on X](https://x.com/iranembassylb/status/1836054340005408849?s=46), it described his injuries as "superficial," and added that Amani was in a good condition.
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South Korea's military has been forced to remove over 1,300 surveillance cameras from its bases after learning that they could be used to transmit signals to China, [South Korean news agency Yonhap reported](https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20240913003000315). The cameras, which were supplied by a South Korean company, "**were found to be designed to be able to transmit recorded footage externally by connecting to a specific Chinese server**," the outlet reported an unnamed military official as saying. Korean intelligence agencies discovered the cameras' Chinese origins in July during an examination of military equipment, the outlet said.
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Nearly half of Republicans say they won't accept the results of [the presidential election](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/19/when-is-next-presidential-election/11017443002/) if [their candidate](https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/donald-trump/) loses, and some of them say they would "take action to overturn" the results, according to data released Tuesday. About a quarter of Democrats said they wouldn't accept the results if their candidate loses, and fewer Democrats than Republicans said they would "take action to overturn" the results. The nonpartisan World Justice Project, which keeps an index of how strong the rule of law is in more than 100 countries, gathered the data as part of a larger study. The poll was conducted through online interviews with 1,046 American households between June 10 and June 18. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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Nine people, including a child, have been killed after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across Lebanon, the country’s health minister says. **Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among 2,800 other people who were wounded by the simultaneous blasts** in Beirut and several other regions. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, said the pagers belonged “to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions” and that at least two members were among the dead.
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The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect access to IVF as Democrats look to draw attention to Republicans' positions on the issue following former President Donald Trump's statements supporting the fertility treatments. The [package](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ivf-senate-democrats-reproductive-rights-push/), called the **Right to IVF Act**, centers on a right to receive and provide IVF services, while working to make the treatments more affordable. The legislation was [blocked](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-vote-ivf-package-reproductive-rights-push/) by Senate Republicans just three months ago. Now, Democrats are daring the GOP to reconsider their votes, with fewer than 50 days until Election Day. ... **The issue was thrust into the national spotlight early this year, when the Alabama Supreme Court deemed that embryos are children under state law, which prompted providers to temporarily halt fertility treatments in the state**. Since then, amid concern about access to IVF in Alabama and beyond, many Republicans have expressed their support for the popular fertility treatments, including Trump in last week's presidential debate. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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***RT, Rossiya Segodnya and others accused of using deceiving tactics on Meta’s apps to carry out influence operations*** Facebook owner Meta said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks, alleging the outlets used deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations while evading detection on the social media company’s platforms. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity,” the company said in a written statement. Enforcement of the ban would roll out over the coming days, it said. In addition to Facebook, Meta’s apps include Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it tracked a group of Russian naval vessels, including two submarines, as they crossed into U.S. waters off Alaska in an apparent effort to avoid sea ice, a move that is permitted under international rules and customs. Crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stratton witnessed the Russian military vessels cross the maritime boundary and venture 30 miles inside an area extending beyond U.S. territorial waters known as the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, the Coast Guard [said](https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3907798/us-coast-guard-encounters-russian-naval-vessels-near-point-hope-alaska/) in a news release. ... **There have been several similar encounters in recent months**. Last month, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska's Aleutian Islands [came across a **Russian** ship](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-military-ship-spotted-near-alaska-coast-aleutian-islands/) in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone. On July 6, the Coast Guard while on patrol [spotted four **Chinese** military ships](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-warships-spotted-alaska-us-coast-guard/) north of the Amchitka Pass in the Aleutian Islands in international waters, but also within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. And on July 24, [the U.S. military intercepted](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-intercepts-russian-chinese-bombers-alaska/) **two Russian bombers and two Chinese bombers flying together** in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone. The bombers were intercepted by U.S. and Canadian fighter jets and were not seen as a threat, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command.
Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new study that offers the first detailed map of a woman's brain throughout [gestation](https://apnews.com/article/maternal-mortality-healthy-start-oklahoma-california-new-york-city-0aa1fa2a141ef82607026b384cc14af7). The [transition to motherhood](https://apnews.com/article/maternal-mortality-rate-us-global-deaths-norway-211218f769e9a5a6e856a485fb31aef3), researchers discovered, affects nearly every part of the [brain](https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-health-ohio-europe-gene-therapy-79c0b20862f3f9e2bb4ee977c050489d). Although the study looks at only one person, it kicks off a large, international research project that aims to scan the brains of hundreds of women and could one day provide clues about disorders like postpartum depression.
Suspicious packages were sent to election officials in at least six states on Monday, but there were no reports that any of the packages contained hazardous material. Powder-containing packages were sent to secretaries of state and state election offices in **Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Wyoming and Oklahoma**, officials in those states confirmed. The FBI and U.S. Postal Service were investigating. It marked the second time in the past year that suspicious packages were mailed to election officials in multiple state offices. The latest scare comes as early voting has begun in several states less than two months ahead of the high-stakes elections for president, Senate, Congress and key statehouse offices around the nation, causing disruption in what is already a tense voting season.
**_According to a report, the global index for free and fair elections suffered the biggest decline on record in 2023, while disputed elections are becoming a global phenomenon._** A shrinking [voter turnout](https://www.dw.com/en/iran-elections-low-turnout-in-parliamentary-vote/a-68412885) globally and increasingly [contested election results](https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-eu-calls-for-full-vote-count-in-election-dispute/a-69817017) are posing a risk to the credibility of democracy, a new report revealed on Tuesday. The report published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) said that global voter turnout between 2008 and 2023 plunged by 10 percentage points, going from 65.2 to 55.5.
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*US supreme court justice and Gloria von Thurn und Taxis found to have rubbed elbows with hardliner Leonard Leo* The supreme court justice Samuel Alito and a German aristocrat and "[networker of the far right](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/alito-supreme-court-far-right-ties)" from whom Alito accepted expensive concert tickets, are both **linked to an ultra-conservative Catholic US group** whose board members include the dark money impresario Leonard Leo and the founder of a **hardline anti-abortion Christian group**, documentation reviewed by the Guardian shows. In 2018, Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, [told the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/world/europe/princess-gloria-von-thurn-und-taxis-francis.html) about attending a dinner hosted in Rome by James Harvey, an American cardinal and hardliner, and sponsored by the Napa Institute, a group founded by Timothy R Busch, a conservative Catholic businessman and [political activist](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/03/17/heres-what-i-saw-when-i-attended-a-conservative-catholic-gathering-in-dcs-trump-tower/). Leo, 59, is an [activist](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/18/bud-light-boycott-funding) and fundraiser who worked on the confirmations of all six rightwing justices who now dominate the supreme court, Alito among them. Now controlling billions of dollars in funding for rightwing groups, Leo is a [director](https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/831067468/202343079349301249/full) of the [Napa Institute Legal Foundation](https://www.napalegalinstitute.org/board/leonard-leo), also known as Napa Legal Institute, and the Napa Institute Support Foundation.
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A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city's economic heartbeat as well as a keystone [origin story](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/21/jd-vance-background-evolution-profile) of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump's vice-president. **Its future, however, may hinge upon $500 million in funding from landmark climate legislation that Vance has called a "scam" and is a Trump target for demolition.** In March, Joe Biden's administration [announced](https://www.energy.gov/oced/industrial-demonstrations-program-selections-award-negotiations-iron-and-steel#melting) the US's largest ever grant to produce greener steel, enabling the [Cleveland-Cliffs](https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/operations/steelmaking/middletown-works) facility in Middletown to build one of the largest hydrogen fuel furnaces in the world, cutting emissions by a million tons a year by ditching the coal that accelerates the [climate crisis](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis) and befouls the air for nearby locals. ... When campaigning for the Senate in 2022, **Vance said Biden’s sweeping climate bill is “dumb, does nothing for the environment and will make us all poorer,**” and more recently as vice-presidential candidate called the IRA a “green energy scam that’s actually shipped a lot more manufacturing jobs to China.” --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection on its platforms.
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***Former President Donald Trump and his running mate have prompted the false claims that migrants are eating people’s pets in the Ohio city, which officials have denied.*** At least 33 bomb threats have been made in Springfield, Ohio, since [false claims](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/baseless-rumors-haitian-immigrants-threaten-unravel-springfield-ohio-rcna170513) --- which were pushed by former President Donald Trump and his running mate --- surfaced about Haitian migrants' eating people's pets, the governor said. All of the threats have been determined to be hoaxes. Some targeted Springfield schools, including elementary school campuses, Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday at a news conference after he met with city officials. "Our children deserve to be in school. Parents deserve to feel that their children are being educated and that their children are safe," DeWine said.
Six employees of New York City’s public school system took their children or grandchildren on trips to Disney World, New Orleans and other locations using tickets that were meant for homeless students, investigators said in a newly released report. The trips intended as enrichment for students living in shelters and other temporary housing also included excursions to Washington, D.C., Boston and Broadway shows, said Anastasia Coleman, the special commissioner of investigation for New York City schools. According to the report released this month, Linda Wilson, the Queens regional manager for the office that supports students in temporary housing, **took her own children on trips that were paid for through grants for homeless students and encouraged employees she supervised to do the same but to keep quiet about it**. “What happens here stays with us,” one staffer quoted Wilson as saying.
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***Amber Nicole Thurman's death from an infection in 2022 is believed to be the first confirmed maternal fatality linked to post-Roe bans.*** Reproductive justice advocates have been warning for more than two years that the end of *Roe v. Wade* would lead to surge in maternal mortality among patients denied abortion care---and that the increase was likely to be greatest among low-income women of color. Now, a [new report](https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death) by *ProPublica* has uncovered the first such verified death. A 28-year-old medical assistant and Black single mother in Georgia **died from a severe infection after a hospital delayed a routine medical procedure that had been outlawed under that state's six-week abortion ban**. Amber Nicole Thurman's death, in August 2022, was officially deemed "preventable" by a state committee tasked with reviewing pregnancy-related deaths. Thurman's case is the first time a preventable abortion-related death has come to public attention since the Supreme Court overturned *Roe*, *ProPublica*'s Kavitha Surana [reported](https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death). Now, “we actually have the substantiated proof of something we already knew—that abortion bans kill people,” said Mini Timmaraju, president of the abortion-rights group Reproductive Freedom for All, during a call with media. “It cannot go on.”
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* Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a trio of USA TODAY/Suffolk University polls found. * Harris leads Trump 49%-46% in Pennsylvania, a statewide poll of 500 likely Pennsylvania voters conducted Sept. 11 to Sept. 15 found. * Harris also enjoys higher personal popularity among likely Pennsylvania voters, with 49% having a favorable opinion of the vice president, compared to 47% with an unfavorable opinion. --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/ ---
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As many Republicans continue to buck their party’s nominee and nominate Vice President Harris for the White House, **calls are mounting for former President George W. Bush to denounce former President Trump**. The Harris campaign has touted that more than 200 Republicans have endorsed the vice president, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and many former Trump insiders. It also includes former vice president to Bush, Dick Cheney. … He noted that Bush is “apparently above such petty concerns,” pointing to recent reports that said he is [not endorsing anyone](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4867948-george-bush-wont-formally-endorse-candidate-in-2024-election-reports/ "https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4867948-george-bush-wont-formally-endorse-candidate-in-2024-election-reports/") in the race for the White House. [Multiple](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-president-george-w-bush-no-plans-endorse-2024-election-rcna170055 "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-president-george-w-bush-no-plans-endorse-2024-election-rcna170055") outlets reported that Bush’s office released a statement that said: “President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago.” “**But it doesn’t work that way. When your country calls, you can’t just roll it over to voicemail because you don’t want to deal with it, especially when you are an elder statesman like an ex-president. Patriotism is for life**,” Truax wrote, noting that former President Jimmy Carter said he hopes he can live[ to cast his vote ](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4809249-jimmy-carter-vote-for-harris/ "https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4809249-jimmy-carter-vote-for-harris/")for Harris. --- **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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***Superbugs will kill more than 39 million people before 2050 with older people particularly at risk, according to a new global analysis.*** While deaths linked to drug resistance are declining among very young children, driven by improvements in vaccination and hygiene, **the study found the opposite trend for their grandparents.** By the middle of the century, 1.91 million people a year are forecast to die worldwide directly because of [antimicrobial resistance](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/13/what-is-antimicrobial-resistance-and-how-big-a-problem-is-it-antibiotics)(AMR) – in which bacteria evolve so that the drugs usually used to fight them no longer work – up from 1.14 million in 2021. AMR will play some role in 8.2 million deaths annually, up from 4.71 million. The study, [published in the Lancet](http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736\(24\)01867-1/fulltext) was conducted by the [Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance](https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/gram) (Gram) Project and is the first global analysis of AMR trends over time.
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***U.S. officials accused RT last week of carrying out covert information warfare operations around the world as an arm of Russia's spy agencies.*** Social media giant Meta announced Monday that it is banning Russian media outlet RT, days after the Biden administration accused RT of [acting as an arm of Moscow’s spy agencies.](https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/rt-russian-state-media-waging-covert-info-war-biden-admin-says-rcna171081) “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement. The Biden administration on Friday [announced new sanctions](https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/rt-russian-state-media-waging-covert-info-war-biden-admin-says-rcna171081) and a State Department official called the media outlet “a fully fledged member of the intelligence apparatus and operation of the Russian government” for the war in Ukraine.
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***Warning: This story contains distressing details from the start.*** Dominique Pelicot, the 71-year-old man accused of **drugging his wife to sleep and recruiting dozens of men to abuse her for over 10 years**, has admitted to all the charges against him in his first testimony since the trial opened on 2 September. Referring to the 50 co-defendants who are accused of raping his now ex-wife Gisèle, Mr Pelicot said: "I am a rapist like the others in this room." "They all knew, they cannot say the contrary," he said. Only 15 of the 50 defendants admit rape, with most saying they only took part in sexual acts. Of his ex-wife, Mr Pelicot said: "She did not deserve this."
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday asked the warring factions of the Sinaloa cartel to act “responsibly” so no one else gets killed, after a week of escalating violence [nearly paralyzed](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-sinaloa-cartel-violence-904fccbfedb23362896399588675e18b) the Sinaloa state capital, Culiacan. ... The exchange Friday during the president’s morning press briefing is the latest in a series of instances where López Obrador has downplayed the clashes between [factions of the Sinaloa cartel](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-sinaloa-cartel-succession-battle-mayo-zambada-battle-8ea5acf7e66f26a4edd84f5947be7aea). The president, who leaves office on Sept. 30, **has [repeatedly refused to confront cartels](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-first-nationalistic-policy-drug-cartels-6e7a78ff41c895b4e10930463f24e9fb)**, laying out various justifications for his “hugs, not bullets” strategy offering opportunities to youths so they won’t join cartels. The latest clashes in Culiacan are the latest example of the violence that continues to plague Mexico, where cartels employ increasingly sophisticated forms of warfare including [roadside bombs or IEDs](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-ied-bomb-police-killed-2bcb0431013075d4350760add40dc289), trenches, home-made armored vehicles and [bomb-dropping drones](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-drug-cartel-drone-attacks-soldiers-killed-572b39c73c030bef20257517d1c4a91d).
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(Reuters) - Ukrainian troops are suffering high losses because Western arms are arriving too slowly to equip the armed forces properly, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told CNN in an interview aired on Sunday. Russia has been gaining ground in parts of eastern Ukraine including around Pokrovsk. Capture of the transport hub could enable Moscow to open new lines of attack. Zelenskiy said the situation in the east was "very tough", adding that half of Ukraine's brigades there were not equipped.
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It’s a bit more nuanced than that. The article doesn’t talk about it, but this NYT article touches on how these Chinese sites are exploiting the de minimis exemption loophole to circumvent US anti-forced labor law, which companies have to comply with to keep their supply chain free of slave labor (Uyghurs in Xinjiang for example):
Lawmakers are flagging what they say are likely significant violations of U.S. law by Temu, a popular Chinese shopping platform, accusing it of providing an unchecked channel that allows goods made with forced labor to flow into the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/business/economy/shein-temu-forced-labor-china.html
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Germany to welcome 250,000 Kenyans in labour deal
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Hah nice catch. Fixed.
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Mexico will amend its constitution this weekend to require all judges to be elected
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Huh? All federal judges in the US (Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges) are nominated.
Even at the state level, it's a mix of election and nomination based on the vacancy.
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Agreed. ChatGPT doesn’t like to cite sources. Microsoft CoPilot and Google Gemini do link to some sources, though not as accurate or thorough like Wikipedia.
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Gus Walz broke the internet with his tearful love for his dad. Then the bullying began
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Good catch. I’ve added it to the summary. Thanks.
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Wow, thanks for the kind words, @A_A@lemmy.world. It's nice to see such positivity on the internet, so keep it up!
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Scientists make DNA discovery that could help find pancreatic cancer cure
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I used to be the only poster in health, so it’s refreshing to see you post here as well!
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UK arrest suspect after crossbow triple homicide
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Thanks. I’ve updated the post.
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Thanks treefrog!
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Appreciate the recognition, Flying Squid. And I'll try to make it easier for people who skim.
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A woman took her sick puppy to a Maryland shelter to be euthanized. The dog is up for adoption again.
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The rescue’s reason:
“LDCRF does not re-home an owner-surrendered dog with its former adopter/owner,” Floyd said in her written statement. “Our mission is to save adoptable and safe-to-the-community dogs from euthanasia.”
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ADHD drug shortage shows signs of letting up, but some patients still struggle
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From an earlier article referenced by this article:
Drugmakers and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which regulates controlled substances, are pointing fingers at one another for the problem, said Erin Fox, senior pharmacy director at the University of Utah Health.
Makers of ADHD drugs say they don’t have enough ingredients to make the drugs and need permission from the DEA to make more. The DEA is insisting that drugmakers have not met their quota for production and could make more of the drugs if they wanted. Adderall is a controlled substance regulated by DEA, which sets limits on how much of the active ingredient drugmakers are allowed to produce in a given time frame. Drugmakers must get approval from the DEA before they go over their quotas.
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There’s been a major shift in demographics at the border. Here’s what’s behind the change.
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Yeah, even Homeland Security acknowledges it too:
“Fundamentally, our system is not equipped to deal with migration as it exists now, not just this year and last year and the year before, but for years preceding us,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an interview with NBC News. “We have a system that was last modified in 1996. We’re in 2024 now. The world has changed.”
But guess who in Congress don’t want to change that?
The position of Mayorkas and the Biden administration is that these problems can only be meaningfully addressed by a congressional overhaul of the immigration system, such as the one proposed in February in a now defunct bipartisan Senate bill.
“We cannot process these individuals through immigration enforcement proceedings very quickly — it actually takes sometimes more than seven years,” Mayorkas told NBC News. “The proposed bipartisan legislation would reduce that seven-plus-year waiting period to sometimes less than 90 days. That’s transformative.”
Now, after a hard-negotiated bipartisan Senate compromise bill has been released, Republicans are either vowing to block it or declaring it "dead on arrival," in the words of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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3 bodies in Mexican well identified as Australian and American surfers killed for truck's tires
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Can confirm that Chichén Itzá is now roped off. And Yucatán is now the safest state in Mexico:
Mexico’s lowest-crime region is strengthening its reputation as an oasis of calm in a country roiled by drug killings. Yucatán, the southeastern state known for its Mayan ruins, has a homicide rate more than 90% lower than the national average.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-10/how-did-yucatan-become-mexico-s-safest-state
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Southeast Asian Americans face the brunt of racist attacks among Asians in U.S., new study finds
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From the article, it's likely because they live and work in lower income areas:
He said it’s hard to give one reason why Southeast Asians are feeling the brunt of this hate, but he thinks financial status might play a role. A 2020 report by the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center said that all Southeast Asian ethnic groups have a lower per capita income than the average in the U.S.
“It depends on socioeconomics,” Chen said. “Where these people are living, where they’re commuting, where they’re working. That may be a factor as well.”
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What you’re saying tracks with the article as well:
Charlene Harrington, a professor emeritus at the nursing school of the University of California-San Francisco, said: “In their unchecked quest for profits, the nursing home industry has created its own problems by not paying adequate wages and benefits and setting heavy nursing workloads that cause neglect and harm to residents and create an unsatisfactory and stressful work environment.”
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US, Philippines kick off combat drills amid China tension
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I don’t think so. There are other important parts in the article:
For the first time, the annual event will also involve troops from the Australian and French military. Fourteen other countries in Asia and Europe will attend as observers. The exercises will run until May 10.
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The 2024 exercises are also the first to take place outside of Philippine territorial waters.
"Some of the exercises will take place in the South China Sea in an area outside of the Philippines' territorial sea. It's a direct challenge to China's expansive claims" in the region, Philippine political analyst Richard Heydarian told DW.
He added that some of the exercises this year will also be close to Taiwan.
This year's exercises have a "dual orientation pushing against China's aggressive intentions both in the South China Sea but also in Taiwan," he added.
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Netanyahu's outraged response after report of pending US sanctions on IDF
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According to ProPublica, it’s commonly done using Leahy Laws:
The recommendations came from a special committee of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum. The panel, made up of Middle East and human rights experts, is named for former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chief author of 1997 laws that requires the U.S. to cut off assistance to any foreign military or law enforcement units — from battalions of soldiers to police stations — that are credibly accused of flagrant human rights violations.
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Over the years, hundreds of foreign units, including from Mexico, Colombia and Cambodia, have been blocked from receiving any new aid. Officials say enforcing the Leahy Laws can be a strong deterrent against human rights abuses.
https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations
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Oh you mean the post summary. Yeah, that's the article's verbatim linked URL. Check the article's source and see for yourself.
In any case, thanks for pointing that out. I've stripped the tracker link and updated the post summary portion.
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Huh? That’s the exact same link as the post’s.
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Wow the ads. I assumed everyone was already using some sort of ad blocker.
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Marcos says he’s ‘horrified’ by Duterte sea deal with China
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Archive link: https://archive.ph/7mQ8M
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FWIW the most recent analysis I came across from a law professor makes me think the emergence of the "major questions doctrine" is more concerning:
In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the US Supreme Court will decide whether to overrule one of its most frequently cited precedents—its 1984 opinion in Chevron v. NRDC. The decision in Loper may change the language that lawyers use in briefs and professors use in class, but is unlikely to significantly affect case outcomes involving interpretation of the statutes that agencies administer. In practice, it’s the court’s new major questions doctrine announced in 2021 that could fundamentally change how agencies operate.
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I am much more concerned about the court’s 2021 decision to create the “major questions doctrine” and to apply it in four other cases than I am about the effects of a potential reversal of Chevron in Loper. Lower courts are beginning to rely on the major questions doctrine as the basis to overturn scores of agency decisions. That doctrine has potential to make it impossible for any agency to take any significant action.
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No, the case is still pending: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2023/22-451
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So cool!
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Good call. Thanks for letting me know.
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Havana syndrome: Report links mystery illness to Russian intelligence unit
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It wasn’t me!
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Kudos for doing additional research and sharing it with sources!
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Standing is a specific legal term that defines whether a party is allowed to sue, and injury is also a legal term in this case. Cornell Law School has a great intro on the legal requirements to establish standing using a 3-part test:
- The plaintiff must have suffered an "injury in fact," meaning that the injury is of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent
- There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct brought before the court
- It must be likely, rather than speculative, that a favorable decision by the court will redress the injury.
In this case, seems to be the Supreme Court is skeptical that these doctors have satisfied this 3-part standing test, especially the injury in fact one. If SCOTUS decides that these doctors don't have standing, then the lawsuit is dismissed.
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Biden knew Israel was bombing indiscriminately – WaPo
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Just pointing out the headline seems to imply it’s from WaPo when in fact it was written by RT.
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Biden knew Israel was bombing indiscriminately – WaPo
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This is a repost of an RT article. https://www.rt.com/news/594456-biden-israel-indiscriminate-bombing/
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Senior doctors in South Korea submit resignations, deepening dispute over medical school plan
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Agreed. Here's some more context:
Korea has the second-lowest number of physicians among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, leading to some of the highest doctors' wages among surveyed member nations.
Doctors in Korea earn the most among 28 member countries that provided related data. Following Korea, the highest earners are in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and the UK. The US was among the countries for which data was not provided.
Measured by PPP, which takes into account local living costs, salaried specialists earned an average of $192,749 annually in 2020, According to the 2023 OECD Health Statistics report. That was 60 percent more than the OECD average. Korean GP salaries ranked sixth.
... The country also ranked low in the number of medical school graduates -- 7.3 per 100,000 people, which is the third-lowest after Israel and Japan, and nearly half the OCED average of 14 graduates for every 100,000 people.
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Women are getting off birth control amid misinformation explosion
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On top of conservative ideology, some people also want to make money:
Martinez co-founded a menstrual cycle tracking app called 28 that is backed by conservative billionaire and tech mogul Peter Thiel. The company, 28 Wellness, told The Post it does not disclose its investors, but Evie announced Thiel Capital’s support when the product launched. A spokesman for Thiel did not respond to requests for comment. The app’s website declares: “Hormonal birth control promised freedom but tricked our bodies into dysfunction and pain.” The “feminine fitness” app told The Post it has “never been marketed as an alternative to hormonal birth control.”
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From the article:
No states have made such proposals or actions on restricting access to Opill, but the concern stems from the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022, which reversed Roe v. Wade and overturned the constitutional right to an abortion.
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But these examples have not set a precedent for what type of authority states may have to restrict access to an FDA-approved medication, Gupta said.
When it comes to Opill, “many states also allow pharmacists to refuse to participate in ‘health care’ that they find morally objectionable. This could include providing individuals with Opill even though it is OTC,” she said. “Legal approval and actual access are two distinct issues, with the latter influenced by a broader set of factors including state policies, healthcare practices, and socio-economic determinants of health.”
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The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
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The CNN article just updated to remove the part about the required 6% and I've updated the summary to match.
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The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
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You may be right it's negotiable, but this lawsuit happened because sellers felt they didn't have a choice:
The NAR had required homesellers to include the compensation for agents when placing a listing on a multiple listing service. Although NAR has long said commissions are negotiable and that the structure helped making housing more affordable for buyers, critics have long argued that the fees were expected and homesellers felt they would lose buyers if they didn’t offer them.
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Individual sellers often feel powerless to negotiate a better deal for themselves, given the risk that offering lower commissions could cause brokers to steer buyers to other properties, said Robert Braun, a partner in Cohen Milstein’s antitrust practice.
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The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
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Can you elaborate? NY Times and Washington Post are reporting the same:
American homeowners could see a significant drop in the cost of selling their homes after a real estate trade group agreed to a landmark deal that will eliminate a bedrock of the industry, the standard 6 percent sales commission.
The real estate group, which represents 1.5 million real estate agents around the country, said it will pay $418 million over four years to settle several cases, along with agreements to change the rules that plaintiffs alleged supported 5 to 6 percent commissions paid by home sellers. The association said it continues to deny wrongdoing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/15/nar-real-estate-commissions-settlement/
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The IRS launches Direct File, a pilot program for free online tax filing available in 12 states
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Oh yeah for sure. It was sued by the FTC for deceptive advertising of its free tax filing and had to pay a $141 million settlement in 2022.
ProPublica also had an article last month about its deceptive "free" service: https://www.propublica.org/article/ftc-intuit-turbotax-cease-deceptive-advertising-free-filing-taxes