List of All Articles with Tag 'w'

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS A deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from Ukrainian

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK The Manhattan District Attorney's office must give JPMorgan Chase & Co documents relevant

The day after the state’s Republican governor signed the ban into law, a judge in South Carolina has blocked a measure outlawing abortion at roughly six weeks of pregnancy. Abortion rights advocates and civil rights groups filed a lawsuit moments after Governor Henry McMaster announced his signature on the bill. South Carolina’s latest law – which could extend the sweeping restrictions and outright bans on abortion care across the entire US South, and threaten legal access to care for millions of Americans – is nearly identical to a bill that was blocked by the state Supreme Court last year. The decision on Friday means the state’s abortion regulations revert to previous rules that allow for abortion care up until about 20 weeks after after fertilization. “The status quo should be maintained until the Supreme Court reviews its decision,” Judge Clifton Newman said. “It’s going to end up there.” His decision on 26 May comes just four months after the state’s Supreme Court permanently struck down a similar measure, which the court determined ran afoul of the state’s constitution. Restrictions on abortion care “must be reasonable and it must be meaningful in that the time frames imposed must afford a woman sufficient time to determine she is pregnant and to take reasonable steps to terminate that pregnancy,” Justice Kaye Hearn wrote in the majority opinion on 5 January. More than a dozen states, mostly in the South, have outlawed most abortions or severely restricted access within the year after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which revoked a constitutional right to abortion care that was affirmed by the decision in Roe v Wade for nearly half a century. South Carolina remains the only state south of Virginia without severe restrictions or outright bans on abortion care past the 12th week of pregnancy. Most of those states have moved to ban abortion in nearly all cases with limited or no exceptions. Last year, lawmakers in South Carolina failed to adopt an anti-abortion law that would ban nearly all abortions in the state, but a six-week ban took effect shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling on 24 June. In a statement following the governor’s signature on the latest six-week ban, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lambasted Republican lawmakers who are “dismantling women’s rights across the South, putting their health and lives in jeopardy. “ South Carolina’s ban will cut off access to abortion for women in the state and those across the entire region for whom South Carolina is their closest option for care,” she added. This is a developing story Read More North Carolina Republicans approve 12-week abortion ban as sweeping restrictions spread across US South Senator who voted for anti-trans bill that passed by one vote admits she wasn’t paying attention From the Civil War to today's mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction GOP leaders in Kansas back off threat to sue Democratic governor over education funding DeSantis pushes past embarrassing campaign start, outlines travel schedule for early state visits

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday his government does not want to have commercial

Oklahoma state legislature prioritized overturning an NIL bill previously vetoed by its governor.While Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt wants to get teachers raises more than anything in the world, the state legislature wants to make sure its college programs don't get lapped when it comes to ...

There are signs that negotiations over raising the nation's debt limit are gaining momentum, but major differences remain and it's unclear how quickly an agreement could come together. Time is running short as the risk of a first-ever default grows.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. subpoenaed documents from the Manhattan district attorney’s office about a possible complaint of sexual

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said talks on the debt ceiling resumed Friday, with negotiations stretching into the final

A judge has ruled that the U.S. Forest Service can keep using chemical retardant to fight wildfires, despite finding that the practice pollutes streams in western states in violation of federal law

With distant family members looking on, Connecticut senators have voted to absolve the 12 women and men convicted of witchcraft more than 370 years ago

Violence was sparked in Kosovo after a new ethnic Albanian mayor was installed in a pro-Serb area.

German prosecutors say it will take time to examine materials recovered from this week's search in Portugal.