The Hill's Morning Report – Abortion battles intensify across the country
The fight over reproductive rights continued to play out in Washington and across the country on Thursday as lawmakers battle over the right to seek abortions across state lines while state governments push for greater autonomy from President Biden’s administration and the courts The House today is set to vote on a pair of bills as part of the Democratic response to the Supreme Court’s striking down of Roe v. Wade. One would restore the right to an abortion as previously protected by Roe, a similar piece of legislation that House Democrats passed in September to c
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President Biden will land in Saudi Arabia on Friday, the final leg of his trip to the Middle East. Biden will meet with Saudi leaders, including Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Friday, an engagement that is drenched in controversy. The decision to meet with the crown prince, or MBS, has drawn intense criticism due to the U.S. intelligence community conclusion he likely approved the brutal 2018 murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the government in Riyadh. Biden defended p
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President Biden's message downplaying the latest inflation numbers is out-of-touch, according to experts who warn that his remarks make the administration appear unrelatable to most Americans. Annual inflation hit 9.1 percent in June, the highest rate of price growth since November 1981, despite recent interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. Consumer prices rose 1.3 percent last month alone, driving up the costs Americans face to get groceries and fill up their gas tanks. Biden acknowledged in a statement after the report’s release that inflation remained “unaccept
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