America
N.Y. Defies Texas Abortion Penalty • A county clerk in New York refused to fi le a more than $100,000 judgment from Texas against a doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas. It sets up a potential
challenge to laws that protect out-of-state abortion providers. The Texas attorney
general’s offi ce asked New York to enforce a judgment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who practices near New York City, for prescribing abortion medication via telemedicine. “In accordance with the
New York State Shield Law, I have refused this fi ling and will refuse any similar fi lings that may come to our offi ce,” said Ulster County Acting Clerk Taylor Bruck. New York is among eight
states with telemedicine shield laws. Democrat New York
Gov. Kathy Hochul praised Bruck and said, “New York is grateful for his courage and common sense.” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he was outraged and vowed to fi ght the ruling.
U.S. Drops Georgia Election Case • The Justice Department dropped a lawsuit against a Republican- backed Georgia election law as discriminatory, abandoning the position it took under then-President Joe Biden. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said recent
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increases in Black voter
turnout in the battleground state refuted the lawsuit’s claim that the 2021 law, which mandated new voting requirements, amounted to voter suppression. “Georgians deserve
secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us,” she said in a statement.
Tax Relief for Delivery Drivers • DoorDash and Uber, companies that rely on independent delivery drivers, want the drivers covered by President Donald Trump’s “No Tax on Tips” idea. Executives for both,
reported The Wall Street Journal, are putting pressure on Republican lawmakers directly involved in the process negotiations. Current plans
being reviewed by top Republicans would allow workers at casinos and restaurants who get tips to be covered by the proposed exemption, reported the Journal. But workers paid using the 1099, like the delivery drivers, would not receive the benefi t.
Woman, 74, Survives Freezing Ordeal • A 74-year-old Michigan woman who went missing in April after her car caught fi re was found alive next to a tree after surviving days of below-freezing temperatures and rain. Nancy Bloomquist was
Extinct Wolves Make Comeback
A
genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth has brought back one of its extinct Ice
Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences
revealed the recent successful birth of three dire wolf puppies, a major step in proving the viability of the company’s “de- extinction technologies” and its potential use in bringing back other species. The dire wolf was native to the Americas during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs (125,000– 10,000 years ago). “Our team took DNA from a 13,000-year-old tooth and a
72,000-year-old skull and made healthy dire wolf puppies,” said Colossal CEO and cofounder Ben Lamm. Lamm and George Church, a biologist at Harvard Medical
School, founded Colossal in 2021 with the goal of bringing back the woolly mammoth. Since then, the private company, valued at about $10 billion, has expanded its plans to include the de-extinction of the Australian thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) and the dodo.
located by a drone about 150 yards “from her vehicle in a heavily wooded area,” the Mason County Sheriff ’s Offi ce said in a post on Facebook. The sheriff ’s offi ce said
she was able to talk with deputies who rescued her. Authorities said the
woman sought shelter from light snow and 29-degree Fahrenheit temperatures under a tree after she mistakenly turned down a private trail and could not fi nd her way back to the main road.
Pardons for Hunter Biden Partners • President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Jason Galanis, an imprisoned former Hunter
Biden business partner, and pardoned Devon Archer, another former associate of the disgraced former president’s son. Galanis was serving 16
years in prison for multiple fraudulent schemes. Archer had been sentenced to a year and a day, but did not serve any time. Trump claimed Archer
was prosecuted by the former administration for turning against the Biden family. Galanis alleged retaliation for testifying against Hunter Biden over his business dealings. “He was screwed by
the Bidens,” Trump told the New York Post. “They destroyed him like they tried to destroy a lot of people.”
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