Colorado-based abortion fund sees rising demand. Many are from Texas, where procedure is restricted A Colorado abortion fund said Thursday it’s helped hundreds access abortion in the first months of 2024, the majority arriving from Texas where abortion is restricted. The new data reveals ... 05/9/2024 - 10:28 am | View Link
How the ‘junk fee’ ban will affect prices displayed by California restaurants and other businesses In long-awaited guidelines for SB 478, the state's ban on 'drip pricing,' Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta makes it clear that restaurants will have to include surcharges and fees in the prices on their menus. 05/8/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Proposed ban on book bans in Minnesota is a solution in search of a problem PEN America attests, as has Walz, that such classics as Anne Frank’s diary, “Of Mice and Men,” “The Color Purple” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” have been “banned.” That would be very troubling indeed! 05/8/2024 - 3:48 am | View Link
Up, Up and Not OK: Letting Go of Balloons Could Soon Be Illegal in Florida The practice is on the verge of becoming illegal in Florida, where the legislature has joined a growing number of states to ban the intentional release of balloons outdoors. The Florida ban is ... 05/8/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
Who will Donald Trump pick as running mate? Contenders gather in Florida | The Excerpt Plus: Jobs news, protesters pushing back against book bans, Presidential Medal of Freedom awards. It's all on The Excerpt. 05/6/2024 - 7:54 am | View Link
Stormy Daniels' husband Barrett Blade joins CNN's Erin Burnett and shares his perspectives on former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in which his wife is a key witness.
CNN's Brian Todd breaks down how ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen's TikToks have been addressed in court during the criminal hush money trial against former President Donald Trump - a case in which Cohen is a key witness.
“Angela Alsobrooks, backed by Maryland’s governor and other leading Democrats, defeated wealthy, self-funded Democrat David Trone for a chance to become the state’s first Black U. S. senator,” the Baltimore Sun reports.
“If she defeats the Republican nominee, former Gov. Larry Hogan, in November, she would also become only the fourth Black woman in U.
mdash; The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, two congressional aides said Tuesday.
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold earlier in the month.
Trump attorney Todd Blanche cross-examined witness Michael Cohen in the former president’s criminal “hush money” trial:
BLANCHE: On April 23, you went on TikTok and called me a crying little shit.
COHEN: That sounds like something I would say.
“I’m shocked they want to silence the voice of MAGA.”
— Steve Bannon, quoted by ABC News, in response to prosecutors wanting his 4-month jail sentence to begin immediately.