National Review,
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Brittany Bernstein
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Thursday that the House will vote to “enshrine into law reproductive health care for all women across America” following the Supreme Court’s refusal to block a Texas law that prohibits abortion after a heartbeat can be detected.
Pelosi’s comments come after the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision just before midnight on Wednesday evening rejecting a challenge to a Texas law that prohibits the abortion of an unborn baby once a heartbeat can be detected. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the Court’s three liberal justices in dissent.
“This ban necessitates codifying Roe v. Wade,”
National Review,
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Caroline Downey
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President Biden issued a statement Thursday slamming the Supreme Court’s refusal to block a Texas law prohibiting abortion after a heartbeat can be detected.
Biden said the high court’s ruling would generate “unconstitutional chaos” by codifying a measure that empowers private citizens to enforce a ban on abortion and vowed to use a “whole-of-government” approach to respond to the law. While the law allows any individual to sue medical providers who perform an abortion, instead of deferring enforcement to the state government, it does not penalize the women who undergo the procedure to terminate their pregnancy. Per the law, plaintiffs in litigation cases
Politico,
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Mackenzie Mays
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SACRAMENTO — Republicans harnessed pandemic anger months ago to qualify the recall election against California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Now the Democrat is banking on a pandemic strategy of his own to save his job.
After tiptoeing around Covid-19 issues early this summer, Newsom is issuing mask and vaccine mandates and taking a tough-on-the-virus approach in the final stretch of the recall campaign. The tactics have turned the race into the nation’s biggest referendum on how to fight the pandemic — and further inflamed partisan divisions over public health. Just as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks banning mandates is a winning message in his red state,
CNN,
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Ariane De Vogue
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The Supreme Court formally denied a request from Texas abortion providers to freeze a state law that bars abortions after six weeks. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberal justices in dissent.
The court's move means that the law -- which is one of the strictest in the nation and bans abortion before many people know they are pregnant -- will remain on the books. The law allows private citizens to bring civil suits against anyone who assists a pregnant person seeking an abortion in violation of the ban.
In an unsigned opinion, the majority wrote that while the clinics had raised "serious
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA),
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Anthony R. Wood
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Robert Moran
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Ida’s moisture-laden remnants evidently spawned multiple tornadoes throughout the region in an hours-long siege Wednesday, ripping off roofs, uprooting trees, and snapping utility poles. And the storm that also set off road-closing downpours isn’t quite done with us.
Forecasters are warning that the Philadelphia region could experience its most robust river flooding in a decade during the next two days. Late Wednesday night, floodwaters swamped Columbus Boulevard as the Delaware River rose nearly 1.5 feet above flood stage. “We’ll probably have a lot of it,” said Sarah Johnson, a lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly. The Delaware River was forecast to crest late Friday
New York Post,
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Mark Lungariello
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Multiple tornadoes ripped apart homes in New Jersey and left hundreds of flights canceled at Newark and JFK airports, as storms caused a deluge through the streets of NYC from Park Slope to the Cross Bronx Expressway on Wednesday night.
The remnants of Hurricane Ida pummeled the tri-state area with furious downpours and Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency in the Big Apple as epic flooding drenched the five boroughs and a tornado watch remained in effect for most of the region.
“We’re enduring an historic weather event tonight with record breaking rain across the city, brutal flooding and dangerous conditions on our roads,” de Blasio said.
Red State,
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Nick Arama
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9/2/2021 12:54:58 AM
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Joe Biden’s ship has finally run aground on the polls.
They began to nosedive at the beginning of the Afghanistan debacle in the middle of last month. For example, his polling average went under 50 by August 16.
But now, Biden’s numbers have absolutely cratered in all respects.
Both the Real Clear Politics average and the FiveThirtyEight average were underwater.
FiveThiryEight had 47.2 disapproving and 46.7 approving. Real Clear Politics really skewered him with 49.2 disapproving to 45.8 approving, first time the approval was under 46. That last graph is pretty striking. If you factor in that the polls tend to weight to Democrats, you know the numbers are likely even worse.
Hot Air,
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Karen Townsend
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More veterans are reaching out for crisis line help after the collapse of Afghanistan than before Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from the country. A sharp uptick in calls has been seen since the Taliban took control of Kabul. It’s a sign of the level of stress that veterans are experiencing as a military presence in Afghanistan ends, especially those veterans who served in that country.
The increase is actually being seen as a good sign for the professionals in charge of the helplines. It means former service members are reaching out for help, an encouraging trend
PJ Media,
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Victor Davis Hanson
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It is the beginning of a never-ending bad dream. Joe Biden and the Pentagon have managed to birth a new terrorist haven, destroy much of U.S. strategic deterrence, and alienate our allies and much of the country.
In the hours after the horrific deaths of 13 service members, we have been reassured by our military that our partnership with the Taliban to provide security for our flights was wise. We were told that the terrorist victors share similar goals to ours in a hasty American retreat from Kabul. We were reminded that Afghan refugees (unlike U.S. soldiers) will not be forced to be vaccinated
Power Line,
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Paul Mirengoff
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According to reports, the U.S. has evacuated nearly 120,000 people from Afghanistan. Only about 6,000 of them are Americans.
Moreover, it appears that only a small percentage of the non-American evacuees hold the special immigrant visa given to Afghans employed by, or on behalf of, the U.S. government. Representative Tom Tiffany (R., Wis.) says that of the 2,000 Afghans housed at a base in his state, not one has that visa. In addition, the Wall Street Journal reports that according to U.S. officials, a majority of interpreters and other U.S. visa applicants were left behind in Afghanistan.
Thus, we evacuated an enormous number of people who didn’t receive, or even seek
Fox News,
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Nate Day
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Joe Rogan has come down with coronavirus.
The 54-year-old comedian took to Instagram on Wednesday to share with fans that he'd contracted the virus after being out on "the road."
"I Got COVID," he wrote in the caption alongside a video of himself explaining his diagnosis. "My apologies, but we have to move the Nashville show to Sunday, October 24."
He concluded: "Much love to you all." The podcast host said that his symptoms included "feeling very weary," "a headache" and feeling "run down" before a fever and "sweats" set in overnight.
"I knew what was going on," the comedian said. Upon being tested
National Review,
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Zachary Evans
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President Biden asserted that a new Texas law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat “blatantly violates” Roe v. Wade in a written statement on Wednesday.
“The Texas law will significantly impair women’s access to the health care they need, particularly for communities of color and individuals with low incomes,” said Biden.
The president added that “my administration is deeply committed to the constitutional right established in Roe v. Wade nearly five decades ago and will protect and defend that right.”
The law went into effect on Wednesday after the Supreme Court declined to act on an emergency petition to block it. The law’s unusual enforcement mechanism