As the nation continues to feel the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision that overturns Roe v. Wade, Washington and cities coast to coast are bracing Saturday for a second day of huge street demonstrations after the ruling was met with an outpouring of joy and rage on Friday night. Demonstrations that began Friday were largely peaceful, although police fired tear gas in Phoenix and violence broke out places such as Los Angeles, Providence and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
After signing a bipartisan gun bill into law on Saturday, Biden again took aim at the Supreme Court, saying the justices had “made some terrible decisions.” The comments come after the court overturned the fundamental right to abortion nationwide established nearly 50 years ago, a ruling that leaves states free to drastically reduce access to or even outlaw abortion. Biden has said the decision puts reproductive health at risk and singled out Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion, in which the justice opened the door to the court revisiting decisions on contraception and same-sex marriage.
Meanwhile, Republicans are celebrating the end of Roe as the culmination of their decades-long fight to defeat the constitutional right to abortion. Democratic lawmakers and candidates are promising to make abortion rights a decisive issue for voters in November.
In 2025, U.K. insurers found fewer bogus claims than in 2024, but the cases they intercepted tended to involve more money. According to The Independent, insurers stopped 1.34 billion (about $1.77 ...