The Lede Blog: Police Fire Tear Gas At Protesters In Oakland, Calif.

The Supreme Court agreed last week to hear a case that could pave the way for states to kick Planned Parenthood clinics and affiliated doctors out of their Medicaid programs. The case threatens the ability of the nation’s largest family planning organization to provide their low-income patients with birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment—services that have nothing to do with abortion. Back in June, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the religious-right legal group behind the fall of Roe v.

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Saturday that averts a government shutdown, bringing a final close to days of upheaval after Congress approved a temporary funding plan just past the deadline and refused President-elect Donald Trump’s core debt demands in the package. The deal funds the government at current levels through March 14 and provides $100 billion in disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance to farmers. “This agreement represents a compromise, which means neither side got everything it wanted,” Biden said in a statement, adding that “it ensures the government can continue to operate at full capacity.

Despite President Musk's eager prediction that the killer would turn out to be an Islamist, Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser described the suspect in Friday’s deadly car-ramming attack as an “Islamophobe.” Via CNN: She gave few other details, but German media have named Friday’s suspect, a 50-year-old Saudi, as Taleb A, and he’s thought to have worked to help fellow Saudis leave their home country. On social media he appeared to have expressed anti-Islam views and support for the far-right AfD. Speaking from the city of Magdeburg, where the attack occurred, Faeser said investigations were just beginning. Friday’s attack, in which at least five people were killed and over 200 injured, has raised questions over how the attacker was able to gain access to the event via car and ram his vehicle into the bustling crowds. Just to make things interesting?

Charlie Angus, Canadian Member of Parliament in the House of Commons was asked about the Orange Felon's threat of a trade war with Canada and he did not waste the opportunity to let the Felon and President Musk know exactly what he thinks about that: HOST: Mr. Angus, what's the latest?

Could this woman possibly be mroe out of touch?