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By Jaden Edison and Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune SAN ANTONIO — A tractor-trailer found near Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio contained the bodies of 50 dead people, along with 16 others who have been taken to hospitals, according to local officials in San Antonio and Mexican President Andrés Manuel …

Orion Rummler Originally published by The 19th A bipartisan gun safety bill passed Thursday by the Senate expands federal restrictions on domestic abusers’ ability to own a gun in an effort to close the regulatory gap known as the “boyfriend loophole.”  However, experts and advocates point out that the loophole …

California state leaders have reached a budget agreement to send inflation relief payments to 23 million Americans, amid soaring inflation and rising gas prices. “The centerpiece of the agreement, a $17 billion inflation relief package, will offer tax refunds to millions of working Californians. Twenty-three million Californians will benefit from …

Les Zaitz, Tennessee Lookout Reaction was swift across the U.S. Friday as the U.S. Supreme Court erased almost 50 years of abortion law. Here is look at reports from states as reported by independent newsrooms affiliated with States Newsroom: COLORADO: Colorado abortion rights advocates face new, post-Roe reality In a landmark …

by Julie O’Donoghue, Louisiana Illuminator A state district judge in New Orleans on Monday temporarily lifted Louisiana’s abortion ban until July 8, when the court will consider a legal challenge to the ban from a Shreveport abortion clinic, the clinic’s administrator and a medical student abortion rights organization based at …

Stefanie Lindquist, Arizona State University Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, state laws, rather than federal law, will now determine whether someone can legally get an abortion. It also means that state Supreme Courts will become much more important in deciding the validity …

by Jennifer Shutt, Idaho Capital Sun Democrats in Congress are pushing to increase access to abortion for members of the military, concerned the U.S. Supreme Court decision ending the constitutional right will harm troops.  The U.S. House’s annual funding bill for the Defense Department would require the Pentagon to provide …

by Jacob Fischler, Virginia Mercury Republicans in Congress were jubilant at the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning decades of precedent to revoke a constitutional right to an abortion, while Democrats were equally despondent about what they called an extremist decision that revoked a long-held right and represented an attack on women’s autonomy. …

Errin Haines Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris boarded a plane to Illinois on Friday to unveil her plan to address the country’s maternal health crisis. While she was in the air, she got the news that the Supreme Court had ended a nearly 50-year precedent and …

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school. “Lives will be saved,” Biden said at the White House. Citing …

With the fate of reproductive rights for tens of millions of Americans now dependent upon federal and state lawmakers in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, Common Dreams takes a look at how Democratic and Republican candidates in 10 key U.S. Senate races responded to …

Shefali Luthra Originally published by The 19th The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that had guaranteed the right to an abortion since 1973. States now have the right to ban or otherwise heavily restrict abortion if it is not protected by their state constitutions. In …

by Jacob Fischler, Pennsylvania Capital-Star President Joe Biden on Friday called for Congress to pass laws protecting abortion rights and for voters to elect pro-rights candidates on “a sad day for the country” after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion. Biden pledged to fight for policies that protect …

Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams The House Select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol revealed Thursday that half a dozen Republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from then-President Donald Trump after they tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. According to the committee, …

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the landmark court decision Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and potentially signaling an end to legal abortion in more than half of the U.S. Justice Samuel Alito, writing in the majority, called Roe “egregiously wrong and deeply damaging.” The …