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Abortions increased in Florida more than in California and New York post-Dobbs. Here’s why.
It’ll be years before many blue-state efforts to expand abortion access have an impact.
Biden administration releases intelligence on Wuhan lab
The 10-page document reveals no proof of either a lab leak or an animal host.
Amazon delays virtual care service’s unveiling after senators raised privacy concerns
The company is pushing back a promotional campaign three weeks to get past the news.
10 things we’ve learned about abortion in the year since Roe fell
Not everything played out the way people expected.
Abortion laws by state: Where abortions are illegal 1 year after Roe v. Wade was overturned
Fifteen states have banned access to the procedure in most situations.
U.S. consumer price growth slowed last month, though underlying inflation measures stayed high
Inflation slowed to just 4% in May.
U.S. prices pick up, showing inflation pressures persist
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
New Trump Audio Features 1 Weird Shoutout That People Just Can’t Get Over
The former president drops an unexpected name in the incriminating new recording.
Judge In Trump’s Documents Case Rejects Prosecutor’s Effort To Keep Witness List Secret
News outlets had asked Judge Aileen Cannon to release the list, citing the case as one of the “most consequential … in the nation’s history.
‘Dead To Rights’: Legal Minds Say Damning New Trump Audio Should Mean Prison
The former president’s own words caught on tape could come back to haunt him at trial.
‘This Is Still Secret’: CNN Obtains Audio Of Trump Discussing Sensitive Military Document
“I have a big pile of papers. This thing just came up,” the former president said in the clip.
Kamala Harris Surprises Stonewall Inn Patrons: ‘We Are Not Going To Tire’
“We can take nothing for granted in terms of the progress we achieved,” the vice president said at the landmark gay bar in Manhattan.
What Russia’s Whirlwind Crisis Could Mean for Putin
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.“A short recap of the past 24 hours in Russia reads like the backstory for a fanciful episode of Madam Secretary or The West Wing,” my colleague Tom Nichols wrote yesterday.
Who’s the Cutest Little Dolphin? Is It You?
Across human cultures and languages, adults talk to babies in a very particular way. They raise their pitch and broaden its range, while also shortening and repeating their utterances; the latter features occur even in sign language. Mothers use this exaggerated and musical style of speech (which is sometimes called “motherese”), but so do fathers, older children, and other caregivers. Infants prefer listening to it, which might help them bond with adults and learn language faster.
The Battle for I-95
Two weeks ago, looking at the burned-out section of I-95 in Philadelphia from above, the safe bet was that this stretch of the East Coast’s most essential arterial would be a traffic nightmare for months to come. The elevated section of the highway had collapsed on June 11 after a tractor trailer flipped over and caught fire.Instead, on Friday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro unveiled a temporary fix that reopened the six lanes to traffic—albeit at a slower pace for now.
What Is Putin Worth to China?
This weekend’s tumultuous events showed just how big a gamble the Chinese leader Xi Jinping took by partnering with Moscow.Russian President Vladimir Putin survived the rebellion that Yevgeny Prigozhin and his private army unleashed on Saturday. Perhaps Putin’s hold on power was never in great peril.
One Year After Dobbs, Abortion Access Dangerously Limited as Support for Abortion Spikes Nationwide
Saturday marked the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that saw the conservative majority overturn Roe v. Wade and end the federal right to abortion. Abortion rights activists rallied in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere across the country to demand access to reproductive healthcare.
Putin’s Creation: History of Russia’s Mercenary Wagner Group & Its Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin
As part of our roundtable discussion, we speak with political science professor Kimberly Marten, expert on the Wagner Group, who says this weekend’s mutiny by the mercenary group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is part of a game of “smoke and mirrors” between Russian power players.
View from Kyiv: What Does the Wagner Revolt Mean for Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria & Beyond?
As we continue to look at the fallout of this weekend’s mutiny in Russia by Wagner mercenary troops, we go to Kyiv to speak with Ukrainian political scientist and historian Denis Pilash, who notes that despite infighting inside Russia, the military still carried out devastating strikes across Ukraine. He adds that the Wagner revolt still shattered an illusion of consensus inside Russia.
Mutiny in Russia: Nina Khrushcheva on How the Wagner Revolt Exposes Putin’s Weakness
We speak with Nina Khrushcheva in Moscow after an extraordinary weekend that saw the most significant challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership since the beginning of his invasion of Ukraine 16 months ago. On Friday, the head of the powerful Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused the Russian military of attacking his forces and began a march on Moscow — but the revolt quickly fizzled out.
Abortions increased in Florida more than in California and New York post-Dobbs. Here’s why.
It’ll be years before many blue-state efforts to expand abortion access have an impact.
Biden administration releases intelligence on Wuhan lab
The 10-page document reveals no proof of either a lab leak or an animal host.
Amazon delays virtual care service’s unveiling after senators raised privacy concerns
The company is pushing back a promotional campaign three weeks to get past the news.
10 things we’ve learned about abortion in the year since Roe fell
Not everything played out the way people expected.
Abortion laws by state: Where abortions are illegal 1 year after Roe v. Wade was overturned
Fifteen states have banned access to the procedure in most situations.
U.S. consumer price growth slowed last month, though underlying inflation measures stayed high
Inflation slowed to just 4% in May.
U.S. prices pick up, showing inflation pressures persist
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
“The Palestine Laboratory”: Antony Loewenstein on How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation
We speak with journalist and author Antony Loewenstein about his new book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. Loewenstein explains that Israel’s military-industrial complex has used the Occupied Palestinian Territories for decades as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that it then exports around the world for profit.
From Drone Strikes to Settler Attacks, Israel Intensifies Effort to “Completely Take Over Palestine”
This week, Israel has launched several attacks on Palestinians with weapons used in the conflict for the first time in nearly 20 years, including deploying U.S.-made Apache helicopter gunships inside the West Bank and firing a targeted assassination aerial strike. Jewish settlers have also raided Palestinian villages in the West Bank, attacking residents and setting fire to homes and vehicles.