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© Reuters. A patient prepares to take Mifepristone, the first medication in a medical abortion, at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/ File Photo By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The New Mexico Supreme Court, based on arguments it heard on Wednesday, appeared poised to block several local ordinances in the state that aim to restrict distribution of the abortion pill. However, the high court appeared unlikely to rule that the state’s constitution includes a right to abortion, as the state’s Attorney General Raul Torrez, a Democrat, had urged, leaning instead toward deciding the case…
ozgurdonmaz/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) on Wednesday notched a record closing high of $197.96, amid a broader market that surged on expectations of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in 2024. AAPL stock earlier added 1.7% to end regular trading at the record figure. It posted a session high of $198, just 23 cents shy of its all-time intraday high scaled on July 19. Broader markets jumped on Wednesday, with Wall Street’s blue-chip Dow (DJI) notching a new record high after surging past the 37K points mark for the first time. The gains came after…
A federal judge on Wednesday put on hold all of the proceedings in former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as his lawyers asked an appeals court to move slowly in considering his claim that he is immune from prosecution in the case.The separate but related moves were part of an ongoing struggle between Mr. Trump’s legal team and prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, over the critical question of when the trial will actually be held. It is now scheduled to begin in Washington in March.On Wednesday morning, Mr.…
The axed co-founder of a San Francisco tech company has been named in a bombshell lawsuit.The suit accuses ex-Tradeshift CEO Christian Lanng of forcing his assistant to sign a “slave contract.”Lanng vehemently denied the accusations in the lawsuit in a statement to Business Insider. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app The axed CEO and co-founder of a San Francisco-based tech company has been accused in a bombshell lawsuit of forcing his former executive assistant to sign a “slave contract” and subjecting her to multiple…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Social media posts by Gary Lineker, the presenter of the BBC’s most popular sports programme, appears to have broken the corporation’s guidelines, its incoming chair Samir Shah told MPs on Wednesday.He said a row between the presenter of Match of the Day and several Tory MPs, including defence secretary Grant Shapps, was not “very helpful either for Gary Lineker or the BBC or the cause he supports because it becomes a story about Gary Lineker and the BBC”.Shah made the comments to…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past the facade of Argentina’s Central Bank, one day after the inauguration of Argentina’s President Javier Milei and his Vice President Victoria Villarruel, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian By Jorgelina do Rosario and Rodrigo Campos BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Argentina’s economy has many problems, and dealing with a mountain of debt repayments over the next two years could determine whether the new government’s economic road map succeeds. The country’s total sovereign debt exceeds $400 billion, some $110 billion of which is owed to the International Monetary Fund and…
© Reuters. A view of the Amazon rainforest at the lagoon of the Yasuni National Park, during a tour in the area by Indigenous Waorani people, whose territory is the subject of a referendum vote that may ban oil production in their region, in the Bameno community, in BRASILIA (Reuters) – The great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel is offering a “Green Nobel” prize, unrelated to the Nobel Foundation, to environmental champions of the Amazon (NASDAQ:) rainforest. Marcus Nobel, a Swedish-American businessman based in Portland, Oregon, has instituted the annual environmental prize to spotlight projects that are helping preserve and sustain the…
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Democrats in the House and Senate are furious at reports that the White House is open to new restrictions on asylum at the border to get a deal done on its supplemental funding request — with lawmakers accusing the White House of “selling out” migrants to appease Republicans.”It is truly shameful that President Biden and his administration are considering selling out migrants and asylum seekers in order to placate extreme Republicans who are jeopardizing our national security and that of our allies just to score a political point,” Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said in a statement.Talks have been ongoing between…
Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin may try again to launch its New Shepard rocket into space next week after grounding it for more than 15 months due to a mid-flight failure.The company said on X Tuesday that it’s targeting a launch window starting on December 18 for the mission. When the rocket eventually takes to the skies, it will carry 33 science and research payloads — instruments designed to collect data — and 38,000 postcards from Clubs for the Future, a nonprofit founded by Blue Origin.The New Shepard has been grounded since September 2022 after a mission was aborted early…