Doctor who provided abortion services to 10-year-old rape victim files for damages against Indiana AG
Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana OB/GYN who provided services to a 10-year-old Ohio girl who traveled out of state to receive an abortion, filed for damages against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) Tuesday. Bernard claimed Rokita made "false and misleading" statements about her to both local and national media. DeLaney & DeLaney, the law firm representing Bernard, said in a statement that a Tort Claim Notice had been filed against Rokita, marking the first step in a potential defamation suit against him. When news of Bernard's actions rose to national attention,
Read MoreFacebook moving news initiatives to 'backburner': report
Social media platform Facebook is moving resources from its news initiatives and newsletters in an effort to build a more robust creator economy, according to a company memo. In the document obtained and published by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, company senior executive Campbell Brown wrote that the social media giant is planning to shift its engineering and product support from its news tab and newsletter platform, Bulle
Read MoreCDC panel gives green light to Novavax COVID-19 vaccine
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee on Tuesday unanimously voted to recommend the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, giving a green light to a fourth shot to fight the virus. The Novavax vaccine is not expected to play a major role in the U.S. vaccination campaign, given that it is intended for the initial doses, not as a booster, and most people have already received their initial vaccinations. But some hope that it could play a role persuading the vaccine-hesitant to get their shots. The Novavax vaccine uses a more traditional vaccine techno
Read MoreDoctor who provided abortion to 10-year-old girl moves to sue attorney general for defamation
INDIANAPOLIS (WXIN) — An attorney representing Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana doctor who provided an abortion for a 10-year-old rape vi
Read MoreHow the Abraham Accords are helping the Middle East come to terms with Israel’s existence
Four years ago, I shared a coffee with a Shia friend originally from Lebanon. The subject of Israel came up, as it often does. When I suggested that the Sunni of the region would beat the Shia to peace with Israel (and thus reap the benefits), he looked at me with incomprehension — as if to say that I had no idea how impossible that would be. But after a moment, he shared what others from the region will say in private: that his generation is hostage to the civil war generation, but that if there can be “a generation without war, there can be peace with Israel.” The sense of
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