What is Planned Parenthood? And how exactly is it funded?

01.23.19

With 57 affiliates nationwide operating more than 600 health centers, Planned Parenthood has become the face of women's reproductive and abortion rights in the U.S. While only about half of Planned Parenthood affiliates perform abortions, the organization is the nation's leading abortion provider. The organization that became Planned Parenthood began in Brooklyn, New York, in 1916, when Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement and lifelong reproductive rights advocate, opened her first clinic. Police raided and shut down the clinic shortly after it opened, but Sanger went on to open the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan seven years later, according to Planned Parenthood's website. Her departure came at a critical time for the abortion and contraception rights movement, amid efforts by some conservatives to cut both Planned Parenthood's federal funding and abortion access in general. Such federal funding can cover many of the health services Planned Parenthood...

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01.23.19

The Government Shutdown Is Going to Hurt the Wider Economy

Sprinkle, a furloughed federal employee, is about to miss his second paycheck since the partial government shutdown began just before Christmas. With no end in sight to the longest shutdown in American history, Sprinkle and his family are postponing all manner of spending. Multiply those decisions by 800,000 federal employees across the country and hundreds of thousands of government contractors who aren’t being paid either, and the shutdown looms as an accelerating threat to the wider economy. The shutdown’s biggest...

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01.23.19

Google's lobbying spending set new records in 2018

All that spending has come at a time when technology companies are under siege from both the left and the right. People on the right are suspicious of the left-leaning corporate cultures at most major technology companies, and they're particularly concerned about how Facebook and Google could use their control over major social media platforms to squelch conservative viewpoints. He went on to create the Open Markets Institute, which has focused on building the case for stricter antitrust enforcement against...

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01.23.19

With strike deal, Garcetti looks again toward 2020 run

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After helping broker an end to a teachers strike that marooned more than half a million students, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday the deal shows that government is solving problems in Los Angeles while Washington remains hobbled by a lengthy shutdown. The Democratic mayor, who is considering a 2020 White House run, called the pact a national model that shows how deeply divided factions can find common ground. Garcetti suspended consideration of a 2020 candidacy with...

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01.23.19

New Ohio governor says he will 'absolutely' sign 'heartbeat bill' Kasich vetoed

Newly minted Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Wednesday that he will "absolutely" sign a new version of the "heartbeat bill," which would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected and had been vetoed by the previous governor, John Kasich. Kasich vetoed a similar piece of legislation -- House Bill 258, known as the "heartbeat bill" -- last month before he left office. The Republican governor anticipates that after he signs the bill, he will face lawsuits the...

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01.23.19

Malawi president directs police to crack down on pre-vote violence

BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi President Peter Mutharika urged police on Wednesday to stamp down on any "rogue elements" ahead of an election in May, especially warning against any politically motivated violence directed towards women. The president "has noted with great concern various acts of violence perpetrated with the probable intention of stirring disorder in the country as we approach the May general elections", presidential press secretary Mgeme Kalilani said. DPP spokesman Nicholas Dausi was quoted in local media on Tuesday...

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01.23.19

Google and Facebook Backed an Event Denying Climate Change

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have publicly acknowledged the dangers of global warming, but last week they all sponsored a conference that promoted climate change denial to young libertarians. But the donations also put the firms in company with some of the event’s other sponsors, which included three groups known for their work attacking climate change science and trying to undermine efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Among the most notable was the CO2 Coalition, a group founded in 2015 to spread...

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01.23.19

Boeing's Flying Taxi Prototype Takes to the Air (Briefly)

Replace the wheels with heavy-duty helicopter skids, add four buzzing drone-like electric fans to each one, and you’ll have something like Boeing’s prototype flying taxi. It's a slightly ungainly looking setup for a flying machine, which are usually sleek and streamlined, but it has just completed a short, first test flight, and it has the lofty goal of being the sort of machine you could hail to get a traffic-skipping ride across town in a few years time. Using electric...

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01.23.19

Interview with Isotropic Systems CEO John Finney on Breakthrough Satellite Technology

Isotropic Systems is developing breakthrough satellite and satellite receiving technology. An isotropic antenna is a hypothetical antenna radiating the same intensity of radio waves in all directions. They are using a transformational optical beamforming technology to control the direction of radio waves, Isotropic Systems has developed communication terminal solutions that are significantly more cost-effective, use significantly less power and yet achieve superior performance benefits for the end users. Isotropic can leverage the circuitry reduction to provide Ka Band systems that...

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