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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman pore over recent Supreme Court decisions regarding the abortion pill mifepristone and the Trump administration's ban on gun bump stocks. 02:01—Supreme Court rulings on abortion pill and bump stocks 16:45—Secret recording of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito 27:45—Weekly Listener Question 37:11—Hunter Biden's conviction 44:30—This week's cultural recommendations Mentioned in this podcast: "Unanimous Supreme Court Rejects Abortion Pill Challenge," by Elizabeth Nolan Brown "The Igno...
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The House passed a large defense bill Friday evening that included a provision that would automatically enroll young men between the ages of 18 and 26* for the Selective Service. The House's version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would authorize $895 billion in military spending, passed by a vote of 217–199. It's unlikely to be picked up by the Democrat-controlled Senate because of numerous amendments regarding abortion, diversity efforts, and transgender medical treatments. The Selective Service provision, though, is part of an enduring bipartisan effort to keep the f...
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By Hazel Gandhi An old video of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray calling Rahul Gandhi nalayak (useless) and saying that he should be beaten up is viral online as a recent video. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from 2019 before Thackeray and Gandhi became allies following the formation of the INDIA bloc. Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) and Rahul Gandhi's Congress contested the Lok Sabha elections this year as a coalition along with 24 other opposition parties under the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, also known as the INDIA bloc. In Maharashtra, Sh...
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By Hazel Gandhi A viral image purporting to show Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra posing with former CISF Officer Kulwinder Kaur, who recently slapped Kangana Ranaut, is viral online. BOOM found that the photo shows former Congress MLA from Rajasthan Divya Maderna who is being misidentified as Kulwinder Kaur. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, was slapped by now-suspended CISF officer Kulwinder Kaur during a security check at the Chandigarh airport on June 6, 2024. A video of Kaur explaining why she hit Ranaut then went viral on so...
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Washington (AFP) - Republicans in the US Senate on Thursday blocked a bill recognizing a legal right to in vitro fertilization, introduced as part of a Democratic drive to underline threats to reproductive freedoms ahead of November's elections. The legislation would have established a federal right to IVF -- an infertility treatment combining an egg with sperm in a lab -- and for providers to offer the procedure, with expanded insurance coverage to lower costs. The vast majority of Americans tell pollsters IVF is morally acceptable, but the country is divided over the destruction of frozen hu...
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Republicans hold Merrick Garland in contempt. This has long been true, but on Wednesday the GOP-controlled House of Representatives made it official. In a near-total party-line vote, with only Rep. Dave Joyce (R–Ohio) crossing the aisle, House Republicans voted to hold the attorney general in contempt of Congress for refusing to release recordings of an interview President Joe Biden did with Special Counsel Robert Hur as part of the president's classified documents case. Back in February, Hur controversially declined to prosecute Biden for keeping classified documents at his private residence,...
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By BOOM FACT Check Team Claim: A video showing Muslim women in Uttar Pradesh is viral online with the claim that the women were waiting to avail their promised sum of Rs 8,500 under the Congress' Mahalaxmi scheme. Fact: BOOM found that the video dates back to 2020 and was taken in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, where beneficiaries of the Jan Dhan scheme were waiting to withdraw their money. Tools used: We had previously debunked this video in May 2021 when it was being circulated with the false communal claim that Muslim women were waiting to hoard free ration distributed by the government. We ...
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Washington (AFP) - The Republican-led US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden's questioning in a criminal investigation. The move -- seen as symbolic, since Garland's Justice Department would ultimately decide whether to press charges -- is the latest escalation in hostilities between allies of Republican Donald Trump and the White House ahead of November's election. Republicans have been demanding the tapes of Biden's October deposition with Special Counsel Robert Hur, w...
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By Hazel Gandhi A 2020 video showing Muslim women waiting outside a bank in Uttar Pradesh is viral online as recent and being shared with the misleading claim that the women were waiting to avail their promised sum of Rs 8,500 under the Congress' Mahalaxmi scheme. BOOM found that the video dates back to 2020 and was taken in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, where beneficiaries of the Jan Dhan scheme were waiting to withdraw their money. While campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi spoke about how, if elected to power, he would introduce schemes for youth...
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U.S. Reps. Grace Meng and Tim Kennedy, both Democrats from New York, have introduced a bill that bar the sale, transfer, or possession of Level 3 body armor to anyone but the military or police officers. Level 3 armor is designed to stop rifle rounds such as 7.62 mm. The bill is named for Aaron Salter Jr., a retired police officer who died trying to stop a 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo. Kennedy said Salter fired on and hit the gunman but the gunman was wearing body armor and was not stopped. The post Brickbat: Naked and Afraid appeared first on Reason.com.
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