A federal court denied Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.’s request for a preliminary injunction against offering health insurance coverage of “morning after pill” and “week after pill.” Attorneys for the company plan to appeal this decision.
Without the injunction, Hobby Lobby will have to pay fines up to $1.3 million dollars a day beginning in January if it does not provide the pills, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty said.
Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit against the section of the Affordable Healthcare Act in September that mandates coverage of “abortion pills,” citing the religious beliefs of the Green family, which owns it.
It will be interesting to see how far this case goes — and if, in fact, Hobby Lobby will have to eventually give in.
Those who associate Islam with terrorism close their eyes in the face of mass killing of Muslims, turn their heads from the massacre of children in Gaza. For this reason, I say that Israel is a terrorist state, and its acts are terrorist acts.Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Israel was carrying out “terrorist acts” in its bombardment of Gaza. (via newsflick)
Yes it’s here, a list of the most expensive keywords in Google. This is only a partial list, but you can check out the full list here.
There’s good money in asbestos.
TPM’s Election Scoreboard is LIVE and ready for results.
Soon, this map will be so insanely full of color that it’ll look like a giant metaphor for our country’s divisions. I for one am psyched.
Get ready New York…
Brilliant. Such a show of quiet resiliency. Their best cover since this one.
Fair and Balanced: Here’s a handwritten note, circa-2005, wherein the president of Fox News writes to a Bush administration official—on Fox News stationary—and offers to “help off the record” if needed. The administration official in question was Condoleezza Rice, then-Secretary of State; Rice replied with a generic form letter. The note was obtained by Gawker’s John Cook, who wrote: “Please just imagine for a moment how Fox News would cover the publication of a private note from the editor of the New York Times to an Obama Administration official offering ‘help off the record.’” source
The Subway Is Back (Sorta)
As of tomorrow, mass rail transit is kinda returning to New York City!
The upshot, basically, is:
- You can get from the Bronx to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to the Bronx.
- You can get from Queens to Upper Manhattan, and Upper Manhattan to Queens.
- You can kinda get around Queens and the Bronx
- You can get east to west in north and central Brooklyn, and
- from central Brooklyn to parts of South Brooklyn, and vice versa.
- If you want to go between Brooklyn and Manhattan you can take one of three shuttle busses, running from, respectively, Atlantic Center, Jay Street and Hewes St. and all going to 57th and Lexington Ave.
Here is a map:
The slow crawl back to normalcy continues. Good luck, New Yorkers.
Newspapers are essential to a functioning society. They inform; they provide context; they shine a spotlight on the shortcomings of bureaucracy, the overreaches of government (yes, this does happen — just perhaps not in the insidious manner that conservatives seem to think, or imply),…
This is the best thing inothernews has ever written. And he’s written a lot of good stuff.
When reading this, consider two recent stories that have shaken the core of two separate newspapers: 1) The Seattle Times’ recent controversy over political ads and 2) The San Diego Union-Tribune’s recent drama regarding its owner helping fund a controversial anti-Obama documentary. When these large papers cross these kinds of lines without the history allowing them to, nobody wins. Don’t forget that.
In a historic move this week, Uruguayan President José Mujica has signed into law a bill that waives criminal penalties for abortion in the first 12 weeks of gestation, with certain procedural requirements, and in the first 14 weeks of gestation in the cases of rape.
The law marks a significant development in realizing women’s human rights and preventing unsafe, clandestine abortions in the region.Read more after the jump.
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A huge development on the women’s rights front.
Sur..prise?: Apple has officially unveiled the iPad mini, though we’re not sure how many people were unaware of the device’s existence at this point. The iPad mini will ship with a 7.9-inch screen, modified A5 chip under the hood, and a starting price of $329 for the Wi-Fi only model. Pre-orders begin on Friday and the first devices will land in consumers’ hands on November 2. So, are you planning to get the smaller iPad? (Photo via The Verge) source
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Two members of the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have been sent to remote prison camps to serve their sentences, the group has said.
Maria Alyokhina, 24, will serve the rest of her two-year term at a women’s prison camp in Perm, a Siberian region notorious for hosting some of the Soviet Union’s harshest camps. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, has been sent to Mordovia, a region that also hosts a high number of prisons.
“These are the harshest camps of all the possible choices,” the band said via its Twitter account on Monday.
An unfortunate development for the two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot that remain incarcerated, and its hard to see this as anything but an attempt at sending a message to those who oppose Russian President Vladimir Putin. Our thoughts are with Maria, Nadezhda and their families.
George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman charged with the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin, will go on trial on 10 June, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
The trial date was set by judge Debra Nelson in a Florida court, but the court noted that there are still several unresolved matters to complete. As such the start of the trial may be pushed back further.
June is a long way off but, regardless of which side you’re on, those following this case will undoubtedly welcome news of any progress whatsoever. Zimmerman is still expected to plea not guilty, and to cite Florida’s controversial “stand-your-ground” law in his defense.
So much for Mitt’s post-debate bump.
Can’t say we’re still over 8 percent anymore, but that job increase isn’t super-high. That said, this is good news: “The Labor Department said Friday that employers added 114,000 jobs in September. The economy also created 86,000 more jobs in July and August than first estimated.”
The Reuters Elections 2012 portal has relaunched just in time for Wednesday evening’s presidential debate. View campaign ads, the latest polling figures, a look back at how we voted over the past few decades, opinion and analysis and the latest news from the campaign trail.
Tonight’s Presidential Debate will be live blogged on the portalREUTERS ELECTIONS: The latest news and analysis from Reuters.com
Awesome stuff. Awesome timing.
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