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...Today’s newsletter covers: Abortion on the ballot Trump’s paper gains Biden’s concentrated spending This week the US Supreme Court heard its first abortion-related case since its decision to overturn Roe...
...This is a fascinating and ultimately alarming documentary, which suggests — after the overturning of Roe vs Wade — that Hite’s battles for women’s bodily autonomy are now to be fought all over again. ★★...
...For more on the US presidential election, listen to this week’s Swamp Notes podcast, where the FT’s Rana Foroohar and Taylor Nicole Rogers discuss why unions may decide the race....
...These proceedings “could affect any number of business issues or social policy issues that states care about”, said Nicole Saharsky, partner at Mayer Brown....
...“Fetterman is very much pro-choice and did not want Roe [vs Wade] overturned, whereas Oz did....
...To her, it already feels like a “post-Roe world”....
...“It’s absolutely time that Roe came down. I absolutely stand for life and think abortion is a horrific crime.”...
...Impressive too were the casting “gets”: Dua Lipa, Kim Kardashian, Nicole Kidman (her husband Keith Urban sat front row)....
...Abortion restrictions have “real, concrete impacts” on women’s lives, said C Nicole Mason, chief executive of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research....
...The case is the first to contest the 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling since former president Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, giving conservative justices a 6-3 majority...
...James Roe, a partner at law firm Allen & Overy, says: “Quite a few of the larger, more headline, transactions were successfully launched but below the €300m mark there were a greater number of transactions...
...If profits start to fall, buybacks cease to be of much help to management as they cannot offset the negative impact on ROE or EPS....
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