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Planned Parenthood asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to find 1849 abortion law unconstitutional (www.pbs.org)

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn a 174-year-old state law that conservatives have interpreted as an abortion ban. It’s the second legal challenge to the statute since the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Roe v. Wade....

St. Louis Police Chief Receives a Third of His Pay From a Local Foundation, Raising Concerns of Divided Loyalties (www.propublica.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/st-louis-robert-tracy-police-ch…

White House promises 'major sanctions' on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny's death (apnews.com)

Even more major than the current major sanctions…

Israeli airstrike kills two people in Damascus, Syrian state TV says - Reuters (www.reuters.com)

Japanese mafia boss conspired to traffic nuclear materials, says US (www.bbc.com)

Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, allegedly tried to sell material he believed would go to Iran to build a nuclear bomb.

Fearing prosecution, UAB pauses in vitro fertilization after Alabama embryo court ruling (www.al.com)

The US vetoes an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza (apnews.com)

The United States vetoed an Arab-backed U.N. resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip....

Turkey detains six people accused of spying on Uyghurs for China | Semafor (www.semafor.com)

AT&T wireless service is down for many people nationwide (www.theverge.com)

The Empty Adderall Factory: The DEA's shutdown of Ascent Pharmaceuticals is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year (nymag.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/adderall-shortage-adhd-medicati…

Yale to resume requiring standardized test scores for applicants (www.nbcnews.com)

The Ivy League university said testing can “highlight an applicant’s areas of academic strength” and can help add diversity in the classroom....

No Questions, Multiple Denials: This Mississippi Court Appoints Lawyers for Just 1 in 5 Defendants Before Indictment (www.propublica.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/this-mississippi-court-appoints…

West Virginia bill allowing librarians to be prosecuted over 'obscene' books moves forward (www.usatoday.com)

A 19-Year-Old Died After Taking ‘Gas Station Heroin’. His Mom Wonders Why It’s Still Being Sold Legally. (www.vice.com)

Johnathon Morrison’s mother helped get tianeptine banned in Alabama. But she says it makes her “sick” it is still being sold in stores across the U.S....

Biden administration announces $5.8B in funding to clean up drinking water, upgrade infrastructure (abc7chicago.com)

The Civil Engineering Society gave the country’s drinking water infrastructure a C- rating in 2021...

Hezbollah lights up Israeli border sites with several attacks (thecradle.co)

Alabama’s supreme court ruled embryos are ‘extrauterine children’. IVF patients are worried (www.theguardian.com)

Struggling consumers use buy now, pay later services for everyday necessities — even groceries (finance.yahoo.com)

‘Andrew Tate is a symptom, not the problem’: why young men are turning against feminism (www.theguardian.com)

Teachers describe a deterioration in behaviour and attitudes that has proved to be fertile terrain for misogynistic influencers...

Federal judge affirms MyPillow's Mike Lindell must pay $5M in election data dispute (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden....

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