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Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams sparked a social media debate this week by arguing legal abortion benefits women financially, helping insulate them from inflation. Her controversial remarks to MSNBC came in response to contributor Mike Barnicle asserting that although abortion "is an issue," it "nowhere reaches the level of interest…

THE Supreme Court has created an ad hoc committee to draft the rules on the handling of terror cases in relation to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo said that the panel will be headed by retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno. In drafting these rules, Gesmundo said…

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing Google for allegedly sending “millions” of campaign emails to users’ spam folders (via Axios). According to the lawsuit filed in California’s Eastern District Court on Friday, the RNC accuses Google of “throttling its email messages because of the RNC’s political affiliation and views.”…

New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin has appeared to narrow the gap with Democratic incumbent Kathy Hochul in some recent polls, as crime remains a top issue for voters in the state. In a recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University, 28 percent of voters in New York ranked crime…

MIAMI — The manager of Charlie Crist’s Florida gubernatorial campaign was arrested in a domestic violence case a day before he resigned from the campaign, NBC News has learned. Austin John Durrer, 43, was arrested early Tuesday on a second-degree misdemeanor assault charge following a dispute at a Cambridge, Maryland,…

Bernice King, the CEO of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., this week blasted Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) after she said that the former civil rights leader would have been an “American First” Republican. “What you…

It was supposed to be Pepper’s big entrance.  Amy Fiala had been tending to the 2-year-old black Lab as they waited for the wedding to start. Now it was time for the handoff. The bridesmaid, in her forest green gown, would escort Pepper to the altar to stand with the…

THE ARTS Council at no point exerted pressure on Writers’ Week to change its structure, with the controversial decision to disband the voluntary committee solely a move of the festival’s board of directors. hat’s according to Fianna Fáil Senator Ned O’Sullivan who is now appealing to the board members to…

OTTAWA — If Tuesday's home opener was any indication of what’s to come, then this Ottawa Senators' season is going to be wildly entertaining. The Senators beat the Boston Bruins at Canadian Tire Centre with seven different players scoring. Mark Kastelic’s first of the season in the second period held…

In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whose consequences could shape the future of American policing: Should cops be able to kill people with shotgun-armed robots? The back-and-forth between the Oakland Police Department and a civilian oversight body…