Arkansas State

South Carolina State

The Hill

South Carolina state Sen. Katrina Shealy was defeated by fellow Republican Carlisle Kennedy in a runoff election Tuesday, becoming the third Republican woman who filibustered against South Carolina’s abortion ban two years ago to lose a primary. Shealy is the last of the “Sister Senators” to lose their primary to a male challenger. Kennedy garnered…

Third GOP ‘Sister Senator’ who filibustered South Carolina abortion ban loses primary

NBC News

Three Republican state senators in South Carolina who filibustered an abortion ban in the state have lost in their primary elections this month. Katrina Shealy, Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson lost to three male candidates and were among a bipartisan group of five women state senators who filibustered a near-total abortion ban. They were nicknamed the "sister senators."

Three female GOP state senators who filibustered S.C. abortion ban lost their primaries

Georgia State

Pine Bluff, AR

PINE BLUFF, Ark — Walmart customers reported a suspicious smell in the parking lot. The reason for the smell was tragic. KATV news station in Little Rock, Ark. reported that a man was found dead in a semi truck on the north side of the Walmart parking lot in Pine Bluff, Ark. according to the Pine Bluff Police Department.

Body found inside semi truck parked in Walmart parking lot

Newark, NJ

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Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Coffee County, GA

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Daily Coffee Press

Last month, more than twenty individuals were indicted on felony charges in Coffee County. Several of them have recently made local headlines, including Guillermo de la Cruz-Morales, the sole person charged in connection with the disappearance of Maria Diaz, and Cornelius Jamison, accused of cocaine trafficking.

Grand Jury Indicts Over Twenty Individuals on Felony Charges in Coffee County

Texas State

Scripps News

Kate Cox, who sought an abortion outside of Texas as the courts turned down her request for an exemption to the state's abortion ban, said she is pregnant.

Texas woman who left state for 'emergency' abortion is pregnant again

Kansas State

CBS News

Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly than other health care professionals and banning a common second-trimester procedure, reaffirming its stance that the state constitution protects abortion access.The Kansas Supreme Court's 5-1 rulings in two separate cases signal that the state's Republican-controlled Legislature faces stricter limits on regulating abortion than GOP lawmakers thought and suggests other restrictions could fall. Lawsuits in lower state courts already are challenging restrictions on medication abortions, a ban on doctors using teleconferences to meet with patients, rules for what doctors must tell patients before an abortion and a...

Kansas Supreme Court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws

New York City, NY

The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

Saint Johns County, FL

Hastings, FL

Jacksonville Today

Eight people have been arrested on drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation at a convenience store in Hastings, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

8 arrested in Hastings drug and gambling bust

Illinois State

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Chicago, IL

Chicago Happenings

Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

New Laws July 1: Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants, Raises for Tipped Workers, and More

Daily Montanan

Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19. Only Tennessee and North Dakota had small increases in births from 2022 to 2023, according to a Stateline […]
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The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans

New Jersey State

Jersey City, NJ

NEWARK, N.J. – Two Hudson County, New Jersey, men have been charged in connection with their respective roles in a Jersey City neighborhood street gang that distributed cocaine and heroin, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

NJ Men Charged in Gang Drug Offenses & Weapon Charges

Maine Morning Star

In the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling Thursday to maintain current access to the abortion medication mifepristone, abortion-rights advocates and opponents vowed to continue their respective battles over the drug. Mifepristone is one of two drugs used to treat miscarriages and terminate a pregnancy during the first trimester, and is the most […]
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Anti-abortion groups say Supreme Court’s mifepristone ruling won’t deter them

Arkansas Advocate

A prosecuting attorney on Friday declined to pursue further action regarding potential violations of state law tied to the purchase of a $19,000 lectern by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office.  Members of the governor’s staff used a state-issued credit card to buy the lectern and carrying case in June 2023 from a Virginia-based company with […]
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Prosecuting attorney declines to pursue charges over Arkansas governor’s purchase of $19K lectern

Idaho State

Pregnant people in Idaho should be able to access abortion in a medical emergency in Idaho, at least for now.

Supreme Court decision allows pregnant people in Idaho to access emergency abortion care — for now

Louisiana State

Mississippi State

The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other workplace accommodations for abortions.

Judge rules that federal agency can’t enforce abortion rule in Louisiana and Mississippi

Arizona State

ABC News

An Arizona abortion rights group submitted a petition on Wednesday for a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the state's constitution.

Arizona voters 1 step closer to enshrining abortion in state constitution

WASHINGTON — In a scathing dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned Thursday that the Supreme Court’s Idaho abortion decision is “not a victory for pregnant patients,” even though it allows emergency abortions for now. “It is delay,” she wrote in her dissent, which she read from...

In a scathing dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says Idaho abortion ruling is 'not a victory for pregnant patients'

Bucks County Beacon

“[I]nvoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” the Constitution of the Confederate States of America composed by southern slaveholders in 1861 sought to “establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” The authors of Project 2025, the latest playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accomplish the policy goals of Christian Nationalists, similarly declare their manifesto will “decide America’s future” by securing their “God-given individual rights to live freely” and exercise dominion over others.

Legislating Inequality: The Christian Confederate Roots of Project 2025

HuffPost

Awareness of the Comstock Act is alarmingly low — and Republicans want to use that to their advantage.

Democrats Are Trying To Repeal An Archaic Law That Could Create A National Abortion Ban

WATN Local Memphis

NewsBreak

Arkansas group reportedly raises enough signatures to qualify abortion amendment for ballot

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A local group has met the signature requirement to qualify the Arkansas Abortion Amendment for the ballot in November. Arkansas for Limited...

Arkansas group reportedly raises enough signatures to qualify abortion amendment for ballot

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