A legislative bill gaining momentum in Oklahoma could force women wanting to have an abortion to first obtain consent from the fathers of their fetuses. The so-called HB 1441 bill , authored by Republican Rep. Justin Humphrey, passed the state House Committee on Public Health on Tuesday, and is now up for a full House vote.
Day: February 15, 2017
Report: Harrison Ford has jet run-in at California airport
NBC-TV says Ford had a potentially serious run-in with an airliner at a Southern… . FILE – In this March 5, 2015 file photo, a World War II-era trainer airplane rests on the ground after actor Harrison Ford crash-landed it after reporting engine failure on the Penmar Golf Course in the Venice area o… SANTA ANA, Calif.
Tensions over Trump deepen fractures among American Jews
The early weeks of the Trump administration have widened divides between liberal and conservative Jews, setting off quarrels over anti-Semitism, Israel and the Holocaust. Well before the 2016 election, discussion over Israel had become so barbed among Jews that Jewish groups began organizing civility training so relationships and holidays wouldn’t be ruined.
The trade war comes to the prairie
Doyle Lentz has grown barley, wheat, soybeans and canola for decades on his land in North Dakota, a farm that has been in the family for generations. Just outside of Rolla, North Dakota, a town of about 1,300 people west of the Red River Valley, his rolling, fertile land might seem a world away from coastal ports, international business deals and the very idea of “globalism.”