Teens in Texas today can’t get birth control at federally funded clinics without their parents’ permission. That goes for new patients, as well those already on the pill or receiving quarterly shots, who now need permission before getting a refill. It also goes for teens who already have children of …
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Medicare and Social Security are no longer on the chopping block in Sen. Rick Scott’s much-criticized Rescue America plan. The Florida senator updated the proposal to specify that he want to sunset all federal legislation in five years except “Social Security, Medicare, national security, veterans benefits, and other essential services.” …
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Former President Donald Trumps’ last White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the Washington Post reports. Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is seeking documents and testimony …
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Charlie Shamp — a bearded Christian “prophet” with a jet-black pompadour — appeared as a guest on the Jim Bakker Show last week to share a heavenly vision about Republican politics. And for once, it wasn’t about Donald Trump. “We need to watch Ron DeSantis,” Shamp told the televangelist’s audience. …
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Nikki Haley‘s 2024 presidential campaign isn’t off to a great start, in that no one seems to understand why she’s embarking on what seems to be such a hopeless endeavor. The conservative Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board even wrote on Wednesday that they see “no clear rationale” for her bid …
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A federal judge in Georgia on Thursday released portions of a report compiled by a special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies tampered in the state’s 2020 presidential election. The material released didn’t include many details, although the grand jury did come to a consequential …
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Someday very soon, a single district court judge in Texas could order the Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of mifepristone, cutting off access — nationwide — to the most widely-used abortifacient in the United States. (The earliest a decision is expected is next Friday, February 24.) If …
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Sen. John Fetterman checked into Walter Reed on Wednesday night for clinical depression, his office announced on Thursday. The first-term senator from Pennsylvania’s trip to Walter Reed comes a week after he was discharged from George Washington Hospital after he began feeling ill on a Senate Democratic retreat. It also …
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Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Jim Banks have introduced legislation in the Senate and House of Representatives seeking to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military. The Ensuring Military Readiness Act would ensure that “persons who identify as transgender with ahistory of diagnosis of gender dysphoria are disqualified from …
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China’s spy balloon took off from a base on Hainan Island along the country’s southern coast, American intelligence reportedly believes. New satellite imagery obtained by researchers shows that the island is home to a balloon launch facility. Researchers at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies identified the facility in satellite …
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