Around The Country

• The fight over whether courts can ban mifepristone is headed back to the Supreme CourtAugust 16, 2023
  A cabinet containing boxes of mifepristone, seen in Wellspring Health Access clinic in Casper, Wyoming. | Rachel Woolf/Washington Post via Getty Images A far-right court just tried to ban an abortion drug. Here’s why you can ignore that decision. On Wednesday, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit handed down an … Read more
• Orlando debuts self-driving shuttle that will whisk passengers around downtownAugust 16, 2023
  There is going to be a new way to get around downtown Orlando, Florida, and it’s not going to require any human drivers.
• Cruz demands Anheuser-Busch ‘cooperate’ with investigation into Dylan Mulvaney controversyAugust 16, 2023
  Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz, R-Texas, demanded that beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB) cooperate with the committee’s probe “regarding marketing alcohol to children.” Cruz sent a letter late Tuesday night to AB InBev CEO Michel Doukeris with regard to what he called the company’s “failure to comply” with the committee’s investigation into the … Read more
• Biden to Visit Maui on Monday to View Wildfire Damage – The New York TimesAugust 16, 2023
  Biden to Visit Maui on Monday to View Wildfire Damage  The New York Times Biden to visit Hawaii as death toll rises  MSNBC White House shoots down critics over Biden’s ‘no comment’ Hawaii response  Fox News Biden got a ‘3am phone call’ moment on Hawaii – he swung and he missed  The Independent VICTOR JOECKS: Biden suntans while Hawaii … Read more
• The LED light revolution has only just begunAugust 14, 2023
  LED lights have saved a lot of energy, but there’s a lot more they can still do. | Geng Yuhe/VCG via Getty Images The heir to the incandescent bulb is just getting started. After reigning for more than a century, the once-mighty incandescent light bulb was forced to relinquish its socket throne earlier this month. … Read more
• There’s more to ‘Sound of Freedom’ than its appeal to conservatives and QAnon, director saysAugust 14, 2023
  The Mexican director of the movie “Sound of Freedom,” Alejandro Gómez Monteverde says the focus should be on child sex trafficking and not the film’s popularity among conservatives and QAnon.
• Trump fawns over ‘very special’ Laura Loomer despite House ally calling her ‘mentally unstable’August 14, 2023
  Former President Donald Trump is getting blasted from both sides of the aisle for palling around with conservative provocateur Laura Loomer at his golf club over the weekend. Loomer posted a video and a handful of photos of herself and Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, during the … Read more