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LIVE AUDIO: Supreme Court Hears Abortion Pill Case

Politico reports: On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of its current term: a challenge to the FDA’s rules for the abortion pill mifepristone. The plaintiffs — who want to overturn FDA decisions that increased access to mifepristone by, among other things, allowing it to be prescribed online and mailed …

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Local Pilots Were Commanding Ship In Bridge Collapse

CNN reports: The container ship Dali, which had just left the Port of Baltimore and was en route to Colombo, Sri Lanka, was not being piloted by its own crew, but by local pilots who are used specifically to avoid accidents like the one that occurred early Tuesday morning. “Pilots move ships in and out of the Port of Baltimore,” …

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GOP Rep Sued For Falsely Naming Man As KC Shooter

The Tennessee Lookout reports: Denton “Denny” Loudermill, the Kansas City-area man who was erroneously accused of being a shooter in the Chiefs rally mass shooting, has filed a defamation suit against U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee over his social media posts naming Loudermill. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas, alleges Burchett shared photos of Loudermill on …

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MN GOP Rep: Gun Law Increases Risk Of Killer Cows

Heartland Signal reports: While arguing against a proposal for safe storage requirements for firearms, Minnesota state Sen. Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove) contended that rural citizens need guns readily available to deal with cows. “You even walk too close to a cow, and it’ll take you down and trample you into dust,” Limmer said. “Fumbling around with a lock while a …

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FDA Asked To Probe Musk’s Brain Implant Company

Reuters reports: A U.S. lawmaker involved in health policy has asked the Food and Drug Administration why it did not inspect Elon Musk’s Neuralink before allowing the brain implant company to test its device in humans. Reuters reported last month that FDA inspectors found problems with record keeping and quality controls for animal experiments at Neuralink last June, less than …

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Trump Media Stock Begins Trading Publicly Today

The Associated Press reports: As Donald Trump’s social media company begins trading publicly Tuesday, would-be investors might ask themselves if the stock is too pricey and potentially too volatile. Trump Media debuts with a stock price near $50 and a market value of about $6.8 billion. Many of Digital World’s investors were small-time investors either trying to support Trump or …

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UK Court Delays Julian Assange’s Extradition To US

The BBC reports: Julian Assange faces a further wait to see whether he can appeal against his extradition to the United States on 18 charges relating to the publication of sensitive intelligence. Two judges at the High Court in London said they would give the United States government three weeks to provide assurances that Mr Assange could rely on the …

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Maddow Rips NBC’s “Inexplicable” Hiring Of McDaniel

The Hill reports: MSNBC prime time host Rachel Maddow blasted her own network over its recent decision to hire former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel as a political commentator. “If you care what I think about this, the fact that McDaniel is on the payroll at NBC News, to me that is inexplicable,” Maddow said on her show Monday. …

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TODAY: Supreme Court Hears Abortion Pill Challenge

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday tackles whether to maintain widely available access to the abortion pill mifepristone as it weighs a high-stakes challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval process. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, hears oral arguments on the Biden administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that restricted access to the …

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