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Jun 26 2022
News
South Dakota governor says she will ban abortion pills prescribed online
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Sunday said she will ban telemedicine appointments with abortion care providers who prescribe pills online in the GOP-controlled state in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Noem told host Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that she brought a bill forward in her state to ban the telemedicine appointments in
The Hill
Aug 16 2022
News
US Official Assures UN Panel Administration Is Helping Minority Women Acquire ‘Abortion Care’
U.S. officials have assured a United Nations anti-racial discrimination committee that the Biden administration is committed to helping American women and girls, especially those from racial minorities, to access abortions, including “medication that supports abortion care.”
During a broad review in Geneva on Friday of U.S. implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial
CNSNews.com
Jan 28 2021
News
U.S. finds first cases of South African COVID-19 variant, in South Carolina
The United States has found its first cases of a potent coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, health officials in the state of South Carolina said on Thursday. Viruses mutate frequently, and several mutated viruses have been identified. The presence of the South African variant in the United States is especially concerning because several laboratory studies have shown that it
Reuters
Oct 20 2020
Opinion
If America Were in Africa
In April 2013, when I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, I accompanied former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young to a meeting with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Then Secretary of State John Kerry had dispatched us to Harare to convince Mugabe to allow free and fair elections later that summer. For years, Zimbabwean
Foreign Affairs
May 31 2022
Analysis
Families in Africa burdened with higher food costs, hunger because of Russia's war on Ukraine
Families in Africa are seeing the price of wheat flour reach levels not seen in months as Russia continues to wage its war on Ukraine.
Most of the wheat sold in Somalia is imported from Ukraine and Russia, but exports through the Black Sea have been stopped since the Kremlin launched its invasion into its eastern European neighbor in late February.
African countries imported 44
Fox Business
Aug 10 2020
Opinion
Trump’s Opening in Africa
There isn’t much good news in the world these days, but a potential bright spot is Sudan. The U.S. has a chance to pull the northeast African nation closer to the West if it doesn’t blow the moment.
The opening comes from the fall last year of Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled for 30 years and turned Sudan into a pariah state. Mass protests led to his arrest last year, and
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)
Aug 15 2022
News
Putin vows to expand military ties with allies
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to expand military cooperation with the country’s allies, saying he’s prepared to offer its most advanced weapons.
Speaking at an annual arms show outside Moscow, Putin didn’t name any country in particular, but noted that “Russia sincerely values its historically strong, friendly and trusting relations with countries of Latin America,
NewsNation
Jun 15 2022
News
Five takeaways from races in Nevada, South Carolina and Texas
Voters from different sides of the country headed to the polls on Tuesday evening, lending some new insight into what to expect going into the general election in November.
Former President Trump saw his endorsement put to the test in two key races in South Carolina, while Republicans saw victory in a South Texas congressional district that could bode well for their strategy in the
The Hill
Jun 15 2022
News
Trump goes 1-1 in South Carolina primaries as Rice loses, Mace wins
Rep. Tom Rice’s vote to impeach former President Donald Trump ultimately cost him his seat in South Carolina’s deep-red 7th Congressional District.
The conservative record that Mr. Rice, a Republican, compiled over his five terms in Congress was not enough to beat his Trump-backed challenger, state Rep. Russell Fry, who won the seven-candidate primary race.
It was a different
Washington Times
Aug 16 2022
News
Trump passports taken in FBI search of Mar-a-Lago returned to former president
Passports belonging to former President Donald Trump that were taken by the FBI during the search conducted at his South Florida residence last week have been returned to the former president, a law enforcement source confirmed to CBS News.
The source said the passports were given back to Trump after they were discovered by a "filter team," a group of federal investigators who screen
CBS News (Online)