Roe v Wade

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A second Supreme Court vacancy to fill less than 18 months into his presidency, POTUS has a huge opportunity for conservative control, and fire up supporters eager for a rightward SCOTUS shift for decades to come.

What would happen if SCOTUS, CONGRESS or POTUS tries to kill Roe v Wade, including a massive civic backlash? However, some say abortion is the ultimate form of child abuse, while others believe women have the right to chose. What say you?

10 Worst Nations

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Thomson Reuters Foundation reached out to hundreds of experts who focus on women’s issues, including development workers, journalists, academics, and health providers.

These experts were asked to name the most dangerous nations for women, according to six separate categories. On three of the different measures—sexualized violence, human trafficking, and “culture and religion”-based violence—India won the dubious honor of coming in first, and #USA also made the list.

Injustices R Not US

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The increasing violation of our rights and the rights of children; unjust and criminally deadly attacks on the free press, attacks on our US neighbors and longtime international allies should make us want to be registered to vote, even if it's via absentee ballots.

All Americans should be mourning all the injustices and they must all be confronted now before the midterm elections. All bipartisan reforms could be adopted before its too late.

American Civil War?

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A National Survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters Conducted June 21 and 24, 2018 By Rasmussen Reports 31% Fear U.S. Civil War

1* How concerned are you that those opposed to President Trump’s policies will resort to violence?

2* How concerned are you that those critical of the media’s coverage of President Trump will resort to violence?

3* How likely is that the United States will experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years?

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence

Weather Hazards

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Hazardous Weather Conditions Heat indices into triple digits in much of the central #USA Critical fire weather conditions expand as a trough increases winds in the Great Basin and Southwest. Severe storms with damaging winds, hail, and isolated tornadoes in the northern Plains.

SCOTUS Battle Supreme

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Veteran US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his resignation and the battle line are not being drawn.

He was appointed by Ronald Reagan and considered to be somewhat of a conservative, but Kennedy was better known for his generation-defining liberal opinions.

Kennedy has also been called the man in the middle and appropriately finds himself the middle of a chaotic fight between Republicans and Democrats, which will not be settled any time soon.

Andy The Singer

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I live in The Bronx, which has a majority Latino population. As World Cup fever increases, I hear many radios and TV sets carrying the games in Spanish. These sounds remind me of the days I served as executive producer with Univision Television Network.

Law and Border

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The US House of Representative members is expected to hold a vote on an immigration bill that may keep migrant families from being separated as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

GOP leaders are light on details with their latest version of the bill, which is an attempt to find a compromise between immigration hardliners and moderates in their party to fund Trump's border wall, provide real border security and strengthen immigration enforcement inside the #USA