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...Voting in Alabama, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and most counties in Texas closed at 8.00pm eastern time. Polls in Arkansas will close at 8.30pm eastern time....
...A Financial Times analysis found 80 per cent of investment in large-scale clean energy and semiconductor manufacturing pledged since Congress passed the IRA and the Chips and Science Act last year is planned...
...In a 1992 challenge to abortion rights, Planned Parenthood vs Casey, O’Connor was one of the majority who voted to uphold the provisions of the previous Supreme Court decision, Roe vs Wade, that protected...
...Even before Arkansas’ attorney-general gave the go-ahead on Friday afternoon, the state’s Planned Parenthood group announced it would no longer provide abortions....
...Arkansas and Oklahoma....
...According to Planned Parenthood, the number of Texas abortion patients at its health centres in bordering Oklahoma jumped almost 2,500 per cent from September to December 2021 compared with the previous...
...The media has been full of stories of patients leaving the state to terminate a pregnancy: an 800 per cent increase at Planned Parenthood in Oklahoma, a flood of patients into Colorado, pregnant women travelling...
...MacKenzie Scott, co-founder of Amazon and the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, donated $275mn to Planned Parenthood, the women’s healthcare provider — the largest single gift in the organisation’s century-long history...
...In Russia last year, fire destroyed an estimated 181,000 sq km of forest — an area the size of Oklahoma — according to Greenpeace. “2019, 2020 and 2021 were each record fire years in eastern Siberia,” says...
...But we should be clear and it’s obvious from all of the case law that follows Planned Parenthood v Casey that the opposite actually happened....
...She could have accessed abortion services at the Planned Parenthood clinic close to her home in Texas, which only allows abortions up to six weeks....
...In Arkansas, Henderson set up a cookie design business when she quit her job. She says the physical and mental demands of nursing had become too great....
...Republicans have also seized on the distribution of loans to Planned Parenthood clinics....
...“Textiles, paper mills, lumber mills, all these places in southern and eastern Arkansas,” said Mervin Jebaraj, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas....
...Talks have been under way for months, with Tyson executives travelling to Kazakhstan and country officials visiting Tyson’s headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, the company said....
...Planned Parenthood, a leading pro-abortion group, has seen its number of active supporters rise by 2m to 12m since Mr Trump’s election just over two years ago, a spokesman for the organisation said....
...The charity has supported a raft of other charities through grant money including Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Watch and Drug Policy Alliance....
...Haider Al-Abadi said Iraq would “shoulder responsibility” for some of the planned reductions of the group’s output to bolster the oil price, according to comments carried by Reuters....
...Despite protests from some victims’ families, planned exhumations of all the victims of the crash are due to be completed by the end of the year....
...Partisan divisions over funding for Planned Parenthood, a healthcare and abortion provider, which had hindered negotiations earlier this year have been replaced by Republican concerns on national security...
...The disappearance of Abdel Aziz al-Khair, an Alawite dissident, was a striking example, said Joshua Landis, a Syria analyst from the University of Oklahoma....
...Such tremors have also been felt in Texas, Colorado, Arkansas, Ohio and Kansas....
...He could launch an attack on Planned Parenthood, the women’s healthcare organisation that performs abortions – which has been at the centre of the latest budget battle gripping the capitol....
...Yet he also contributed to education and the arts and to causes generally seen as on the other side of the political divide: Planned Parenthood, which provides abortion services, and public broadcasting...
...Perhaps no one has been more impassioned in their support of the foreign policy of George W Bush than Tom Cotton, a 37-year-old Iraq war veteran who has won election as senator in Arkansas....
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