Roe...

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law that women's groups said would leave only a single doctor legally allowed to perform abortions in the state.

By a 5-4 vote, the court said the restrictions must remain on hold while challengers appeal a lower court decision in favor of the law. Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the court's liberal members.

It was the Supreme Court's first significant action on the hot-button issue of abortion since Donald Trump's nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, replaced Anthony Kennedy, who generally voted with the court's liberals to uphold abortion rights.

In Thursday's ruling, Kavanaugh voted with the conservatives Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch.

Kavanaugh filed a dissent, writing only for himself. He said he would have allowed the law to take effect in order to see whether it would impose a burden on women's access to abortion in the state.

The high court's decision  was not a ruling on the legal merits of the Louisiana restriction. But the decision to keep the law on hold signals that a majority of the justices have doubts about its constitutionality.

Passed by the state legislature in 2014, the measure requires any doctor offering abortion services to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. Two Louisiana doctors and a clinic filed a legal challenge, arguing that it was identical to a Texas law the Supreme Court struck down in 2016. In that ruling, joined by Justice Kennedy, the court said Texas imposed an obstacle on women seeking access to abortion services without providing them any medical benefits.

Fair...

A Maryland woman said she was raped by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) in a “premeditated and aggressive” assault in 2000, while they both were undergraduate students at Duke University. She is the second woman this week to make an accusation of sexual assault.

She has no interest in becoming a media personality or reliving the trauma that has greatly affected her life. Similarly, she is not seeking any financial damages.

Fairfax’s statement said he would not resign. “I demand a full investigation into these unsubstantiated and false allegations....I will clear my good name and I have nothing to hide. I have passed two full field background checks by the FBI and run for office in two highly contested elections with nothing like this being raised before. “

Watson’s claim comes at the end of a turbulent week that began when a different woman, Vanessa Tyson, accused Fairfax of sexually assaulting her in 2004 when both were in Boston attending the Democratic National Convention.

Watson’s attorney provided an email exchange from 2016 between Watson and Milagros Joye Brown, a friend from Duke. Brown was inviting a group of Duke friends to a fundraiser for Fairfax, as he launched his campaign for lieutenant governor.

All week, Democrats and Republicans have been treading carefully regarding Tyson’s allegation, unsure what to believe because Tyson offered no corroborating evidence. Several have called for an investigation.

The Media now is all over it. Nothing else of value.

Swindle...

Federal authorities have charged four U.S. citizens and foreign nationals for swindling unsuspecting Americans out of millions of dollars through websites such as eBay and Craigslist.

In all, 16 foreign nationals have been charged, and 12 of them have already been arrested and extradited to the United States.

They used fabricated stories to persuade victims to send them money overseas. At one point claiming to be a member of the U.S. military who was being deployed overseas and needed to sell his car quickly.

The scheme also used stolen identities of Americans to communicate with victims, and it used forged documents bearing markings from reputable companies to appear legitimate.

Much of the money taken from American victims was ultimately laundered through cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Enquire..

In a stunning post on Medium Thursday, Jeff Bezos publicly accused the National Enquirer of a blackmail and extortion plot involving compromising photographs. Bezos alleges the National Enquirer was attempting to blackmail and extort him using "intimate" photos.

Bezos, in the Medium posting, said that the Enquirer offered not to publish the photos in exchange for a public statement from Bezos that the Enquirer's reporting was not politically motivated.

Of course I don't want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out," Bezos said in his post. 

Change...

Ford is sinking $1 billion and adding more jobs to plants in the Chicago area to expand production of the  Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator sport utility vehicles.

The expansion comes as the automaker makes cuts overseas and shifts its lineup to make more SUVs, crossover-utility vehicles and trucks and away from sedans.

The move will add 500 jobs at Ford's Chicago-area Assembly and Stamping plants, bringing the total number of employees at the two factories to 5,800.

Ford is building a new body shop and paint shop at the assembly plants and plans to make major changes to the final assembly area. The company also plans to install some new manufacturing technology, including 3D-printing tools and robots.

Ford is undergoing an $11 billion restructuring that will shrink its salaried workforce of 70,000. It is also cutting thousands of jobs in Europe, where Ford has struggled to maintain solid footing.

Why...

Pilot...

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An American Airlines pilot has been arrested at Britain's Manchester Airport on suspicion of being drunk.

Police "received a report that an airline pilot may have been under the influence of alcohol" at the airport in northwest England.

Officers arrested a 62-year-old man just before 11 a.m. on suspicion of performing an aviation function while over the prescribed alcohol limit.

American Airlines confirmed that a member of its aircrew was detained at the airport. It said the flight, AA735 to Philadelphia, was canceled and passengers rebooked on other flights.

The airline "safety is our highest priority," and that it is "fully cooperating with local law enforcement" over the incident.

Mo-Money...

Just follow who wants to collect more money/ more taxes from the people. 

Desire...

Many patients think, ‘Here is this person that I like and I should want to have intimate relationshp with the person, but every time I have physical contact I feel anxious, scared, panicked, regret, or get a painful experience. This situation impact 33 percent of women for a variety of reasons. 

Not to be discouraged, there are many solutions to resolve these issues. The FDA-approved Addyi (flibanserin), nicknamed “the female Viagra” because it increases sexual desire and response of the patient to a great extent.

Those who experience dryness as they don’t self-lubricate easily,  estrogen creams, can make a great difference.  It will give the patient a sense great relief, a sense of being much younger and may rejuvenate your life.

There are sex therapists that specifically deal with these conditions. in addition to anxiety medication may be also used to help treat HSDD as well.

So just don't give up, educate yourself. You will find that many of these problems have a solution.

Gone...

The men who emerge from the Islamic State’s last sliver of land are ordered to sit behind one of two orange lines spray-painted on the rocky desert floor: Syrians behind one and Iraqis behind the other.

The women, wearing face-covering veils and clutching toddlers, huddle in a different spot, also separated by nationality.

By midmorning, United States Special Operations Forces arrive in a convoy of armored vehicles. The men suspected of being Islamic State fighters are searched by troops and a sniffer dog. Then they are fingerprinted, photographed and interviewed.

That state is all but gone. The militants are now trapped in an area about the size of Central Park surrounded by all different forces.

As the noose has tightened, even those who joined the caliphate in its earliest days are trying to save themselves.

Most of those who have made it to this spot in the desert in recent days are the families of the militants their multiple wives and numerous children with only a small number of locals originally from the area mixed in, Kurdish officials said.

Large numbers of the escapees are foreigners, Germans, French, Britons, Swedes and Russians, a testament to the group’s broad appeal, which lured some 40,000 recruits from 100 countries to its nascent state.