Senate Democrats have launched a probe into Jared Kushner's business activities as the GOP continues its investigation of Hunter Biden. Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, has come under scrutiny for receiving money from foreign governments including $2 billion from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in 2021, six months after he left his role as a White House adviser to the former president in January 2021.

American journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial in Russia on charges of spying for the CIA, prosecutors announced Thursday. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested in March 2023 on what many in the West consider trumped-up charges by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s repressive government. President Joe Biden has repeatedly called on Putin to release Gershkovich, 32, who was arrested while on a reporting trip in the Ural Mountains...

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to the common abortion drug mifepristone, saying the plaintiffs lacked standing. The ruling means the drug, used in the majority of abortions, may continue to be prescribed online and shipped by mail, upholding recent regulatory changes made by the Food and Drug Administration. The decision by the high court was unanimous and written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an appointee of former President Donald Trump. It marks a major victory...

The Supreme Court in a unanimous decision Thursday ruled that a group of anti-abortion doctors does not have any legal basis to challenge access to mifepristone, one of the two common drugs used in medication abortion.  As a result, access to mifepristone won’t change.   The opinion, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, sided with the Biden administration and Danco, the manufacturer of the branded version of mifepristone. It reversed a lower court decision that would have made it...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled a group of doctors lacked legal standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone, preserving access to the medication nationwide. The unanimous opinion was authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The case put abortion access back in the spotlight for the court after its conservative majority voted to overrule Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Artificial-intelligence-generated propaganda supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas is deliberately targeting an American audience, according to a deepfake detection company studying online influence efforts that employ cutting-edge AI technology. Investigators at Sensity AI say they have uncovered manipulated online content backing both sides of the Israel-Hamas war, but the intended audiences for each side appeared far different, providing a rare window into whom the deepfake...

More than 14,000 Texas patients crossed the border into New Mexico for an abortion last year. An additional 16,000 left Southern states bound for Illinois. And nearly 12,000 more traveled north from South Carolina and Georgia to North Carolina. These were among the more than 171,000 patients who traveled for an abortion in 2023, new estimates show, demonstrating both the upheaval in access since the overturn of Roe v. Wade and the limits of state bans to stop the procedure. The data also...

(NewsNation) — Transgender American swimmer Lia Thomas’ dreams of competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics ended after an international court rejected her appeal against rule changes by the world swimming’s governing body. Why did the court reject Thomas’ case? The Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed Thomas’ request for arbitration with the World Aquatics governing body.

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