In a few weeks, Florida and Arizona are set to join most states in the southern U.S. in banning abortion. It’s a significant shake up to the abortion legal landscape, and data shared exclusively with Newsportu maps and quantifies what the changes will mean for millions of Americans. On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court cleared […]
Hundreds of political and news content creators, along with activists, meme account administrators and journalists, have signed an open letter to Meta asking the company to reverse its decision to limit the reach of accounts posting “political content” on Threads and Instagram. Meta announced in February that it no longer would recommend content about politics […]
Water levels on rivers in Russia and Kazakhstan continue to rise and flood whole villages and cities, with more than 100,000 people evacuated and the Kremlin warning a “very, very tense” situation was expected to worsen. Fast-melting snow and ice has caused rivers in Russia’s southern Urals, western Siberia as well as northern Kazakhstan to […]
Post Office inquiry live updates: Lord Arbuthnot giving evidence – BBC News BreakingBreaking news Close breaking news Summary The Post Office inquiry hears from Lord Arbuthnot, a leading supporter of the campaign for justice for hundreds of wrongly convicted sub-postmasters He says he was not satisfied with a “brush-off” reply he had from a Post […]
Darcy Howard knows a thing or two about solar eclipses. Before today, she told the BBC she’s seen five of them. We caught up with Darcy earlier, before the eclipse happened. And we’ve just spoken to her again to see how it went. She drove hundreds of miles to a friend’s farm in Missouri to […]
A Spanish tennis player has been banned from the sport until 2039 after admitting to 35 corruption charges. Aaron Cortes, 29, fixed the outcome of matches for money, bet on tennis, failed to report corrupt approaches and gave money to tournament officials in exchange for a wildcard, said the International Tennis Integrity Agency. It gave […]
Ireland’s parliament has elected Simon Harris as the country’s new and youngest-ever prime minister, to succeed Leo Varadkar following his surprising resignation last month. On Tuesday, parliament members erupted in cheers as Harris’s nomination was confirmed 88-69, after securing support from some independent lawmakers, as well as his coalition partners Fianna Fail and Green Party. The […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jaedyn Shaw struck the ball with purpose and purity, and when the shot from beyond the penalty area skipped into the Japanese net Saturday in Atlanta, the teenager shimmied backward, flashed an ear-to-ear smile at teammate Sam Coffey and held up her palms as if to say, “Can you believe this is […]
Image source, Getty Images New legislation will clear and compensate sub-postmasters who were the victims of what has been called the UK’s most widespread miscarriage of justice. Hundreds were wrongly prosecuted after faulty software said money was missing from Post Office branch accounts. The next phase of a public inquiry into what went wrong begins […]
As the war enters its 774th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, April 8, 2024. Fighting Ukraine’s military said that fighting around the front line city of Chasiv Yar was “difficult” and “tense” but that its forces were resisting Russian air and infantry attacks. Ivan Fedorov, the head of […]