Fulton county judge issues order that abortions must be regulated as they were before law took effect in 2022
Says the judge: "It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another."
It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …
“Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father’s life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris.
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With less than 40 days left until the election, Trump continues to escalate his personal attacks against Harris, calling for her to be "impeached and prosecuted."
By 1978, John Brisker had been out of the NBA for three years. In March of that year, he traveled to Africa and intended to launch an “import-export business.” On April 11, he called his girlfriend in Seattle. That was...
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Britain was a country powered by coal. Now it’s the first G-7 nation to quit it. In a matter of hours, the boilers at the Ratcliffe plant will cool to the touch.
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I loved him in Heaven's Gate, but he missed my death deadline. Next time.
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).
There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
• John Boos in county jail (archived link)
• Melvin Chavez shot and killed (archived link)
• Frances Conley neurosurgeon without penis (archived link)
• Santino Contreras shot and killed
• Frank Coppa squealer (archived link)
• Paul Cripple rock'n'roller, Reagan Youth (archived link)
• Clive Everton snooker journalist
• Andrea Nicole Garcia in county jail (archived link)
• Nick Gravenites rock'n'roller, music for The Trip (archived link)
• John Green shot and killed (archived link)
• Fredric Jameson author, Postmodernism (archived link)
• Minhaj Jamshidi shot and killed (archived link)
• Carrie Marie Kwok shot and killed (archived link)
• William Lucy "I am a man" (archived link)
• Ricardo Martinez Olguin shot and killed (archived link)
• Malik Mebane kid who played football (archived link)
• Dick Moss baseball's free agency (archived link)
• Coby Palmer activist (archived link)
• Anthony Rivera shot and killed (archived link)
• Jordan Alvin Simon shot and killed (archived link)
• Maggie Smith actress, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (archived link)
• Michael Valentine accomplice to vehicular mass murder (archived link)
• Marcellus Williams probably not guilty
Previously dead
The company is in trouble, and anyone who has spit into one of the company’s test tubes should be concerned.
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• Former minister sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing 2 young children (archived link)
• At Good News International Church, hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors (archived link)
• Pennsylvanie church leader arrested for repeated sexual assaults on young girl (archived link)
• Nearly 40 children in India drown during Hindu festival
• MAGA pastor prays for God to smite Kamala Harris
• Survivors outraged as convicted sex-offender Bishop found living at a church in Los Angeles (archived link)
• New York Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivors
• Quebec Catholic monks face class actions over decades of alleged sexual abuse
• 11 survivors sue diocese over alleged abuse by priests
• Right-wing pastor claims to have healed a man who almost died from voting Democratic
• Church leader charged with sexual abuse after allegedly giving naked massages to multiple boys
• Former police chaplain accused of raping young child hundreds of times (archived link)
Ex-president complains search results unfairly favor Kamala Harris and display negative stories about him
Trump’s running mate will speak at Lance Wallnau’s event in campaign’s latest link to extremist Christian right
As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
A boom in vegetation at the end of the last ice age may have created so much pollen, it blocked mammoths' sense of smell. A new study suggests this drove the beasts to extinction, but not everyone agrees.
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As maternal mortality spikes, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton charges ahead with an effort to prevent doctors from providing emergency care.
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It's so startling to hear this, yawn.
The companies belong to industry trade groups that are opposing pivotal legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Colorado.
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OpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.
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Always good to see a crook toppling, and Adams has smelled crooked since he was a cop. Probably before he was a cop.
For decades, everyone from sci-fi writers to defense specialists and Hollywood directors have hypothesized about how best to save the planet should it ever come face to face with a massive asteroid. Now, they might finally have their answer. According to a new proof-of-concept study published by sci...
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As a lifelong reader and ex-subscriber to the Times, my opinion is that its ordinary day-to-day reporting has problems, but it's generally within arm's reach of accurate. The Times' coverage of politics, however, is so laughably hollow and bend-over-backwards subservient to America's rightwing lunatics, it's best ignored.
You reading more into it than it says is misunderstanding, but not misleading.
All true, except your claim that the title is misleading.
Quantum physics makes my mind do loop-de-loops.
Mr. Burnett did not respond to invitations to be interviewed.
I'm still reading the article, but that's the key. Burnett knew Trump was fake, a lightweight and not at all how he was portrayed — which is no big deal in creating a TV show. But he kept quiet as Trump ran for President, and has maintained silence about it to this day, which to me makes Burnett and NBC accomplices to the last eight years of bludgeoning America.
Where I live, Washington, the minimum wage is $16.28 p/hour. Across the border in Idaho, the federal minimum applies — $7.25.
Businesses on the higher-wage side of the border are doing fine, and Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d'Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.
It's a great story, and I always get the impression Robin Williams was a mensch, but also: I can't imagine a time when anyone anywhere wouldn't have known Nathan Lane was gay.
Poo-pooed states' rights?
Definitely an all-time favorite. I'll see anything with her in it.
Cheney was always one of the most reprehensibly right-wing Congresscritters, but lots of lefties love her because she voted to impeach Donnie Trump, and she gives great lip service to the Constitution. I have enthusiastically never been in the love-Liz crowd. She's opposed to gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, health care rights, human rights, etc, and she doesn't give a damn about the Constitution — she just doesn't like Donnie.
Says here it's one of his greatest performances. I saw it and it ain't bad.
I would really like an answer to that.
The answer is, if Kamala Harris says anything less than wholeheartedly supportive of Israel's ongoing war crimes, she'll be slammed all across the media for anti-Semitism. That's rancid but it's a fact, so she's probably politically smart to shut up about it until after the election.
I strongly suspect that if she wins, Ms Harris still won't say much about the genocide. But... she's better than Trump, on this and every issue.
Devolved? No, man, I've always been this way.
Did some research, actually, and concluded long ago that most 9/11 skeptics and truthers are empty-headed fools — and all the ones who say "do your own research."
It's treason, and Republicans want a second try at it.
Prosecutors said Haspil had been hired as an assistant for Saleh, whose ventures included a ride-hailing motorcycle startup in Nigeria, but quickly began to siphon money from Saleh’s businesses.
That's a painfully clumsy sentence. Has AP no editors?
Old, large, cranky. Gotta go to the bathroom. Also, that picture isn't me. www.itsdougholland.com