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View More NewsMail-order abortion is preserved, for now: “We are pleased that a safe and effective drug Americans depend on will continue to be available while this litigation proceeds,” a spokesperson for Danco Laboratories (makers of mifepristone) said in the wake of the Supreme Court deciding to grant a stay to a federal appeals court decision that had briefly required patients seeking abortions to make an in-person visit to a provider vs. getting the drugs dispensed by mail. Pills are used in more than 60 percent of abortions nowadays. This decision allows them to be distributed by mail in the meantime while litigation…
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On April 25, a man armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and knives charged through a security gate and was apprehended by Secret Service agents before he could descend the stairs that would have led him into the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. He has since been charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump. Writings by the suspect indicated his desire to target members of Trump’s administration, as well. Naturally, observers discuss the possible causes, including mental illness, radicalisation in online echo chambers, and the conduct of the Trump Administration. Some speculate that the self-described “Friendly Federal Assassin” was motivated in part by a feeling of personal failings: that his graduate degree from a less prestigious school was not commensurate with his undergraduate degree from Caltech, and nor was his subsequent employment (he worked as a part-time teacher to supplement his game development business). We have little evidence so far that any career frustrations or financial woes played a role in this…
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