BOSTON, MA — Governor Maura Healey signed into law House Bill 5595 this morning, legalizing abortion in the state of Massachusetts up until a child enters Kindergarten.
An unlicensed pilot of an overloaded nighttime tour boat was criminally charged after a boat capsized and resulted in the drowning deaths of a mother and her infant
The revision marks the latest sign of increasing government deficit spending, with the national debt nearing $40 trillion.
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Deliberate attacks on more than 1,400 fiber-optic lines left thousands of residents in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Koreatown without internet or cell service over the weekend, and no one has been arrested. Someone slashed Spectrum's fiber-optic cables in Baldwin Hills on Friday, severing the lines that carry internet and wireless service to some of […] The post Vandals slash fiber-optic cables across Los Angeles, knocking out internet for thousands appeared first on American Almanac .
Deliberate attacks on more than 1,400 fiber-optic lines left thousands of residents in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Koreatown without internet or cell service over the weekend, and no one has been arrested. Someone slashed Spectrum's fiber-optic cables in Baldwin Hills on Friday, severing the lines that carry internet and wireless service to some of the most densely populated neighborhoods in central Los Angeles. Customers across West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Koreatown lost connectivity almost immediately. The next day, a similar attack hit Verizon's network, spreading outages across Southern California and into the San Fernando Valley by early Sunday morning. Neither company has identified a suspect. The motive remains…Open
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation eliminating the state's 24-week abortion limit and permitting the procedure through all nine months of pregnancy, a move pro-life advocates say puts America further outside the global mainstream. Healey, a Democrat, signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act on Monday, making Massachusetts the tenth state, along with the […] The post Maura Healey signs Massachusetts law removing all gestational limits on abortion appeared first on American Almanac .
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed legislation eliminating the state's 24-week abortion limit and permitting the procedure through all nine months of pregnancy, a move pro-life advocates say puts America further outside the global mainstream. Healey, a Democrat, signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act on Monday, making Massachusetts the tenth state, along with the District of Columbia, to strip gestational age restrictions from its abortion laws. The bill, numbered H.5595, replaces a longstanding framework that generally prohibited abortions after 24 weeks except in limited circumstances, such as lethal fetal anomalies or serious risk to the mother's health. Under the new law, doctors alone decide whether to perform an…Open
A tropical system brewing hundreds of miles east-southeast of Hawaii is expected to strengthen into a tropical depression or tropical storm within days, and forecasters warn it could send 16-to-20-foot waves crashing into the islands by late week. The National Hurricane Center has designated the cluster of disorganized thunderstorms as Invest 93C, a classification that […] The post Invest 93C takes aim at Hawaii with waves up to 20 feet expected later this week appeared first on American Almanac .
A tropical system brewing hundreds of miles east-southeast of Hawaii is expected to strengthen into a tropical depression or tropical storm within days, and forecasters warn it could send 16-to-20-foot waves crashing into the islands by late week. The National Hurricane Center has designated the cluster of disorganized thunderstorms as Invest 93C, a classification that puts the system under formal investigation for tropical development. The NHC gives 93C medium odds of forming over the next two days and a high chance of development within the next week, a timeline that places the Hawaiian Islands squarely in the path of potential impacts before the weekend. The system is currently nearly stationary, sitting in the Central Pacific basin…Open
The Trump administration's FDA proposed a rule requiring food manufacturers to notify the agency before slipping new additives into the food supply, ending a self-certification system that let companies decide on their own what was safe to eat. Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas announced the proposed rule on Monday, calling it a fix for a […] The post FDA moves to close decades-old loophole letting food makers add ingredients without telling regulators appeared first on American Almanac .
The Trump administration's FDA proposed a rule requiring food manufacturers to notify the agency before slipping new additives into the food supply, ending a self-certification system that let companies decide on their own what was safe to eat. Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas announced the proposed rule on Monday, calling it a fix for a gap in federal food oversight that has been widening since the late 1950s. Under current practice, companies can declare a new chemical additive "generally recognized as safe", known by the acronym GRAS, and start using it in packaged food without ever telling the FDA. That voluntary system expanded in 1997, and an estimated 10,000 additives now sit in the American food supply, many of which have…Open
Wisconsin's leading Democratic gubernatorial candidate voted against a bipartisan child-grooming law that passed 93, 6 and was signed by her own party's governor, and her campaign won't say why. Francesca Hong, a 37-year-old state legislator running in Tuesday's Democratic primary, was among just six Assembly members to oppose a measure that bars adults from engaging […] The post Francesca Hong cast one of six votes against Wisconsin's anti-grooming law — now she wants to be governor appeared first on American Almanac .
Wisconsin's leading Democratic gubernatorial candidate voted against a bipartisan child-grooming law that passed 93, 6 and was signed by her own party's governor, and her campaign won't say why. Francesca Hong, a 37-year-old state legislator running in Tuesday's Democratic primary, was among just six Assembly members to oppose a measure that bars adults from engaging in a deliberate pattern of conduct designed to condition, seduce, solicit, lure, or entice a child into sexual activity or pornography. The bill cleared the Assembly with overwhelming support. The state Senate passed it by voice vote. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed it into law in March. And prosecutors have already used it to charge a man in Janesville accused of grooming…Open
The Democratic frontrunner for Wisconsin governor once hosted a six-course dinner "inspired by menstruation" and tweeted that Americans should "Cancel Thanksgiving", a record now shadowing her primary campaign. Francesca Hong, a 37-year-old state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, held what she called a "Feast of the Feminine" at her downtown Madison […] The post Wisconsin gubernatorial frontrunner Francesca Hong once hosted a menstruation-themed dinner — and called Thanksgiving a 'colonizer holiday' appeared first on American Almanac .
The Democratic frontrunner for Wisconsin governor once hosted a six-course dinner "inspired by menstruation" and tweeted that Americans should "Cancel Thanksgiving", a record now shadowing her primary campaign. Francesca Hong, a 37-year-old state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, held what she called a "Feast of the Feminine" at her downtown Madison restaurant in October 2019. The event, advertised on Eventbrite as a "celebration of menstruation with conversation and dinner," drew 17 attendees to Morris Ramen, the restaurant Hong co-owned with her ex-husband Matt Morris from 2016 until it closed in 2024. The menu featured soondae, a Korean blood sausage. The Washington Free Beacon reported that the dinner…Open