The president and fellow Democrats have already seen the power of the issue: A majority of Americans want legalized abortion nationwide.
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Infighting among Putin’s lieutenants hurts Russia’s war footing, if not his hold on power
Some see Putin’s failure to squelch the infighting as a sign of potential shifts in Russia’s political scene that set the stage for more internal battles.
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‘Titanic’ director James Cameron says the search for the missing sub became a ‘nightmarish charade’
Cameron told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday that he “felt in my bones” that the Titan submersible had been lost soon after he heard it had lost contact with the surface.
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Republicans release whistleblower testimonies from former IRS agents in Hunter Biden case
The release of the testimony comes just 2 days after Hunter Biden, 53, announced he will plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses as part of an agreement with the Justice Department.
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3M reaches $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of water systems with ‘forever chemicals’
The deal would compensate water providers for pollution with per- and polyfluorinated substances, known collectively as PFAS.
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Eastern Caribbean islands shut down as Tropical Storm Bret closes in
A hurricane watch has been issued for St. Lucia ahead of Tropical Storm Bret’s expected impact.
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George Santos’ aunt and dad signed his bail bond to keep him out of jail while awaiting trial
Two relatives helped indicted the U.S. representative from New York stay out of detention while he awaits trial by guaranteeing his bond.
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Biden and Modi cheer booming economic ties in visit that also reckoned with India’s record on rights
In a joint news conference with the Indian prime minister, the president called the relationship between the U.S. and India among the most consequential in the world.
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Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation abortion pill ban blocked before it was set to take effect
A judge ruled that attorneys for the state failed to show that allowing the ban to take effect on schedule wouldn’t harm the lawsuit’s plaintiffs before the case is resolved.
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Looking back, sub tourist calls himself ‘naive’ for taking 2021 dive to the Titanic
As an international search determined the vessel that disappeared on its way to the Titanic’s wreckage had imploded, a man who was one of the submersible company’s first customers says a dive he made to the site was like a suicide mission.