Why did Mitt Romney change his mind on Ketanji Brown Jackson?
OKLAHOMA SENDS AGGRESSIVE ABORTION BAN TO GOV The Oklahoma House gave final approval to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill heads to the desk of GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has said he'd sign any anti-abortion bill. The push is part of a larger effort by Republicans nationwide to pass aggressive laws as the Supreme Court considers undercutting abortion rights that have been in place for almost 50 years. [AP] BIDEN SET TO EXTEND STUDENT LOAN MORATORIUM President Joe Biden is expected to announce that the White House will again extend the moratorium on federal student loan payments through Aug. 31. The decision could come this week, and would extend a pause on those payments and interest accrual that is set to expire on May 1. If it is announced, it will be the fifth time the White House has extended the moratorium since March 2020. [HuffPost] WILL THE BUCHA MASSACRE BE A TURNING POINT IN THE UKRAINE WAR? The atrocities uncovered in Kyiv suburb Bucha appear to have taken the war to a new low and are already spurring Western countries to tighten Russian sanctions. But could the universal horror galvanize further action? HuffPost U.K. explains. [HuffPost] ROMNEY EXPLAINS SURPRISING REVERSAL ON SUPREME COURT PICK Sen. Mitt Romney explained some of his thinking after the GOP lawmaker announced his surprising reversal on Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court. "In her previous confirmation vote, I had concerns about whether or not she was in the mainstream," Romney told reporters. Read more here: [HuffPost] SHOCK CLAIM BY ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVIST Two anti-abortion activists made shocking claims after five fetuses were found in one of their apartments last week. They said a medical worker allowed them to seize more than 100 fetuses from outside a Washington clinic last month. [HuffPost] OBAMACARE TWEAK COULD HELP 1.2 MILLION AMERICANS The Biden administration is proposing a major policy change to Obamacare that it believes could help 200,000 uninsured Americans get comprehensive health plans, while making coverage cheaper for 1 million more. It's something the White House can do on its own, without Congress. [HuffPost] |
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'LIKE BRUCE WILLIS, I HAVE APHASIA. THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE.' Bobbi Dempsey, a guest writer for HuffPost, shares her own experience with aphasia after Bruce Willis announced last month he was retiring from acting. "As a writer, words are my lifeblood, so when they went missing, it was a cataclysmic shift in my world. But I had to learn to adapt to ― or at least tolerate ― my new reality," she writes. Read more here: [HuffPost] HATE COP OUSTED IN ILLINOIS A veteran police officer abruptly quit his job after researchers connected him to a deluge of violent and bigoted social media posts that glorified Adolf Hitler and hate crimes. Springfield Officer Aaron Paul Nichols, 46, resigned rather than meet with investigators. "If I found a genie and I had one wish? The Jews would be a distant memory in 72 hours," one post allegedly written by Nichols says. [HuffPost] MAN ID'd AS 'I-65 KILLER' Indiana State Police said crime scene samples positively identified now-deceased Harry Edward Greenwell as the "I-65 killer." The discovery wraps up a decadeslong investigation into crimes that included the rape and murder of three women in Indiana and Kentucky in the 1980s. Greenwell died in 2013. [AP] IVANKA TESTIFIES BEFORE JAN. 6 PANEL Ivanka Trump, former President Donald Trump's daughter and one of his closest advisers, spoke to the House select committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol for hours on Tuesday. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D), the chairman of the panel, said she was not "chatty," but had been helpful to the investigation. She is one of more than 800 witnesses the committee has interviewed, and the first of Trump's children known to speak to lawmakers. [AP] U.S. SEIZES OLIGARCH'S YACHT American authorities seized a Russian oligarch's yacht in cooperation with Spanish authorities amid sanctions against the country's elite over the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. "Today marks our task force's first seizure of an asset belonging to a sanctioned individual with close ties to the Russian regime. It will not be the last," Attorney General Merrick Garland said. [HuffPost] |
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