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Abortion will become illegal in Idaho as state Supreme Court declines to pause trigger law
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho residents will no longer be able to seek abortions in state after the Idaho Supreme Court earlier this week let the state implement its near-total abortion ban.
The decision came a little more than a week after a hearing addressed two lawsuits filed by Planned Parenthood in recent months. The first challenged an Idaho law...Read more

Kansas plans to recount abortion amendment vote, despite proposal's landslide defeat
Kansas election officials plan to conduct a statewide recount of the vote rejecting an amendment to remove abortion rights from the state constitution after a citizen posted a $200,000 bond for the recount, the state Secretary of State’s Office said.
Separately, Kansas state Sen. Caryn Tyson asked for a recount in 55 counties in the ...Read more

Once Indiana's abortion ban goes into effect, most patients seeking abortions will have to travel beyond its borders
When Indiana’s near-total abortion ban goes into effect on Sept. 15, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Merrillville — and its 10 other facilities in Indiana — will remain open to provide “critical health care services outside of abortion,” but patients seeking abortion care will likely have to go out of state.
“We provide a whole ...Read more

Here's where FBI agents searched for classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Agents with the FBI had a warrant to search any rooms at Mar-a-Lago used by the club’s owner, former president Donald Trump, or his staff, according to court documents unsealed Friday afternoon.
While the layout of Trump’s home is a mystery to most, building plans and interviews by the Miami Herald have helped sketch out the likely ...Read more

Manhattan DA's criminal case against the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg can proceed, NYC judge rules
NEW YORK — A judge on Friday denied the Trump Organization’s motion to dismiss the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal tax fraud case against Donald Trump’s family real estate business and its long-serving chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.
Among a flurry of motions shot down by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan ...Read more

FBI removed classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, is investigating possible Espionage Act violations
WASHINGTON — FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents — including some marked top secret and meant to be available only in special government facilities — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.
The itemized list of items taken from the property, which was released Friday at the Department ...Read more

FBI seized top-secret classified documents from Trump's estate
WASHINGTON — The FBI seized classified material from Donald Trump in a search that has thrown US politics into turmoil, and court filings revealed the former president may be under investigation for mishandling government records and potentially compromising national security information.
Court documents unsealed by a judge Friday shed new ...Read more

Whitmer won't have to testify in abortion case, judge says; defendants appeal
DETROIT — Oakland County Circuit Judge Jacob Cunningham has ruled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will not be forced to testify in the case she filed to stop enforcement of Michigan's abortion ban — a decision that was almost immediately appealed to the state Court of Appeals.
Cunningham said Wednesday that Whitmer established good cause to quash the...Read more

House Democrats pass sweeping health care, tax and climate bill
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday passed a sweeping health care, tax and climate change bill. Now they have to sell it.
The vote was 220-207, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans opposing.
With the midterm elections quickly approaching, congressional Democrats have had a series of legislative victories in recent weeks ...Read more

FBI removed classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, is investigating possible Espionage Act violations
WASHINGTON — FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents — including some marked top secret and meant to be available only in special government facilities — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.
The itemized list of items taken from the property, which was released Friday at the Department ...Read more

FBI seized top-secret classified documents from Trump's estate
The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized classified records — some marked top secret — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to a copy of the warrant seen by Bloomberg.
The list of information seized includes documents labeled with “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” which refers to top-secret and ...Read more

FBI removed classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, is investigating possible Espionage Act violations
WASHINGTON — FBI agents removed 11 sets of classified documents — including some marked top secret and meant to only be available in special government facilities — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.
The itemized list of items taken from the property, which was released Friday at the Department ...Read more

FBI seized top-secret classified documents from Trump's estate
The FBI seized classified records — some marked top secret — from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, according to court documents unsealed Friday.
The list of information seized includes materials labeled with “Various classified/TS/SCI documents,” which refers to top-secret and sensitive compartmented information. That�...Read more

The long list of episodes that stoked security concerns at Trump's Mar-a-Lago
Long before Monday’s raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, reportedly to recover classified documents related to nuclear weapons, the Palm Beach, Florida, club had presented a host of security concerns and been breached numerous times.
The club was the site of numerous trespassing incidents while Trump was in office.
In 2017,...Read more

Judge at the center of FBI's search of Trump's home is a target of threats, slurs
MIAMI — A week ago, the FBI submitted a search warrant seeking classified information in the Mar-a-Lago home of former president Donald Trump to a magistrate judge in West Palm Beach federal court.
But the magistrate judge on duty last Friday wasn’t available, so another one agreed to review it, with no idea of what awaited him.
His name ...Read more

Trump denounces 'nuclear weapons hoax' without disputing details of Mar-a-Lago FBI search
Former President Donald Trump denounced the FBI search of his Florida home as a “hoax” on Friday without disputing that he had top secret nuclear documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago.
Comparing the classified information probe to other high-profile investigations, Trump pointed the finger at “sleazy” federal prosecutors for engineering the ...Read more

Mayor Adams signs off on 6 laws to bolster abortion rights in NYC
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed off on six new laws Friday aimed at bolstering women’s access to abortions — a response to the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The laws — now collectively known as the NYC Abortion Rights Act — will require the city Health Department to provide abortion pills...Read more

Battle for open Hawaii seat splits Democratic House groups
WASHINGTON — Hawaii voters will choose who is likely to be the state’s next House member on Saturday, while its other House member and one of its Democratic senators face primary challenges.
Democratic Rep. Kai Kahele announced earlier this year he would run for governor, a race he isn’t expected to win, rather than seek a second term in ...Read more

Editorial: Gov. DeSantis' missed opportunity on the Mar-a-Lago raid
“The raid against MAL (Mar-a-Lago) is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.” — Gov. Ron DeSantis in a recent tweet ...Read more

Editorial: Memo to Merrick Garland: If no one is above the law, prove it
Attorney General Merrick Garland has insisted that “no person is above the law in this country,” and it appears that he meant it. The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago, could not have happened without Garland’s knowledge and approval.
The concept that no one is above the law has been the theme of ...Read more
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