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A federal judge in Texas has ordered the US Food and Drug Administration to withdraw its approval of a popular abortion pill in a move that, if upheld, would amount to a nationwide restriction on the drug.District judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered a preliminary injunction of the drug mifepristone, one of two drugs used to end pregnancies, which would affect access to it even in states with abortion protections.However, the ban ordered by the Donald Trump-appointed judge will take effect in seven days, allowing the Biden administration time to appeal against the decision. Attorney-general Merrick Garland said he “strongly disagrees” with…

Sean “Diddy” Combs is still paying the price for sampling The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” and it’s not cheap.The mogul, who sampled the smash hit for his 1997 “I’ll Be Missing You” tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G., tweeted this week that he’s still paying Police frontman Sting $5,000 in royalties each and every day.Diddy made the revelation after a 2018 clip from “The Breakfast Club” was recirculated on Twitter in which Sting said that the rapper was paying him $2,000 every day “for the rest of his life” for using the song.Sting and Sean “Diddy” Combs at the…

Christian Sanya’s ideal afternoon is watching Lifetime while meticulously folding laundry. She could spend hours tucking in shirt sleeves, lining up pant steams and ensuring every fold is flat, unwrinkled.By chance, she stumbled into a side hustle that allows her to do almost exactly that: She started washing other people’s clothes through on-demand laundry platform SudShare in 2019. Last year, she made $46,000 on the platform, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.The earnings helped Sanya, 44 — who also makes $76,000 per year as a full-time medical laboratory technologist — and her husband open a laundromat of their…

As House Republicans prepared to pass a parental rights bill – a signature plank of their governing agenda – GOP leaders ran into unexpected headwinds. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who is tasked with counting votes, began picking up on concerns from conservatives who thought the measure was federal overreach and moderates who worried about potential amendments related to transgender students. Even Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a member of Emmer’s whip team, informed leadership he would be voting against the bill – prompting grumbling from some senior Republicans who mused about kicking him off the whip team, according to…

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India’s plans for a sharp increase in renewable capacity auctions will put “a lot of pressure” on the industry to scale up quickly, the head of one of the largest clean energy providers has said.India will start auctioning 50 gigawatts of solar and wind power capacity for the country’s electricity grid annually until 2028, more than doubling the current pace.Sumant Sinha, chief executive of ReNew, welcomed the proposal outlined by India’s renewable energy ministry. But he noted that renewable companies were already stretched trying to keep up with existing work. More bidding will “put a lot of pressure on people…

US fund managers are increasing investments in international stock markets after rising interest rates and fears of an economic slowdown brought an end to more than a decade of domestic dominance.US stocks have vastly outperformed most other developed and emerging markets since the financial crisis, but the trend began to reverse last year.The Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index has now posted stronger returns than Wall Street’s S&P 500 for four consecutive quarters, its longest period of outperformance since 2008. European stocks did decline in the middle of last year, but losses were milder than in the US, and asset managers that…

Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that he did not disclose luxury travel paid for by a Republican donor because he was advised at the time that he did not have to report it. In a rare statement sent via the Supreme Court’s public information office, Thomas said that the trips he and his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, took with the donor Harlan Crow and his wife – whom Thomas describes as among his family’s “dearest friends” – were the “sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends” that he was advised did not require disclosure. Thomas’ travel with the…

The State Department’s review of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan has far more findings in it than the document about the withdrawal that the White House released Thursday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the report. While the White House’s document focused on President Joe Biden having been “severely constrained” by the conditions created by former President Donald Trump, the State Department report has more than two dozen recommendations – some specifically related to how the department could have better prepared, including during the Biden administration, the source said. “The Biden administration inherited a deadline without a clear plan…

The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, has upheld the Justice Department’s use of a key criminal charge against hundreds of January 6 rioters, saying they can be charged with obstructing Congress. The appeals court said obstruction can include a “wide range of conduct” when a defendant has a corrupt intent and is targeting an official proceeding, such as the congressional certification of the presidential election on January 6, 2021. The major ruling affects more than 300 criminal cases brought in the wake of the Capitol riot. The Justice Department has used the charge – obstructing on official proceeding –…