Heather J. Chinflipped into Voting Rights11 hours agoSupreme Court to take on controversial election-law caseverified_publisherNPR - Nina TotenbergThe Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically change how federal elections are conducted. At issue is a legal theory that would give state legislatures unfettered authority to set the rules for federal elections, free of supervision by the state courts and state …
Heather J. Chinflipped into Biden Administration 8 hours agoBiden backs change to filibuster rules to codify abortion and privacy rights into lawverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Francesca Chambers , Michael Collins , Joey GarrisonMADRID – President Joe Biden said Thursday he would support changing filibuster rules in the Senate to make it easier to codify a right to abortion and a right to privacy into federal law following last week's Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. Biden called the ruling "outrageous" and …
Heather J. Chinflipped into On History6 hours agoJackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme CourtAssociated Press - By MARK SHERMANWASHINGTON (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court. The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice, and she took the place of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen …
Heather J. Chinflipped into Aging & Senior Eldercare Health11 hours agoGene discovery may explain why more women get Alzheimer's diseaseverified_publisherCNN - By Sandee LaMotte(CNN) — Scientists have identified a gene that appears to increase the risk of Alzheimer's in women, providing a potential new clue as to why more women than men are diagnosed with the disease. The gene, O6-Methylguanine-DNA-methyltransferase, or MGMT, plays an important role in how the body repairs …
Heather J. Chinflipped into Abortion Rights + Roe V Wade2 hours agoFlorida, Kentucky judges block states from enforcing abortion bansverified_publisherReuters - By Nate Raymond and Joseph AxJune 30 (Reuters) - Judges in Florida and Kentucky on Thursday moved to block those states from enforcing bans or restrictions on abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had established a nationwide right to it. In Tallahassee, Florida, Circuit …
Heather J. Chinflipped into Ukraine-Russia War10 hours agoSnake Island: Why Russia couldn't hold on to strategic Black Sea outcropbbc.co.uk - By Yaroslav Lukov & Paul KirbyThis tiny, rocky outcrop in the north-west of the Black Sea was seized by Russia on the first day of its invasion of Ukraine, and it has played an outsized role in the war ever since. After more than four months of repeated Ukrainian bombardment, Russian forces have abandoned Snake Island, or Zmiinyi …
