The Supreme Court on Wednesday is taking up the most serious challenge in decades to the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade in 1973.
Female empowerment and “wicked murderers”: Hundreds of protesters on both sides of the abortion issue rally outside the Supreme Court washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
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Wild boar. Kelp salad. Crickets in your pie crust.
These are just a few things that may end up on Thanksgiving menus as climate change takes its toll on the planet. wapo.st/3FQgIKJ
Drought, blistering heat waves and raging wildfires have gripped much of the West, stressing crops such as wheat.
In the Northeast, the fastest-warming region in the country, cranberries are budding earlier, making them more vulnerable to frost damage. wapo.st/3FQgIKJ
And in the Southeast, intensifying hurricanes, driven by warming oceans, are forcing farmers to move turkeys northward to drier ground.
Climate change has officially arrived at our Thanksgiving tables. wapo.st/3FQgIKJ
Three men convicted of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot in Georgia last year washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11…
Travis McMichael, his father, Greg McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan were all convicted of felony murder in the fatal shooting of Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man — meaning they committed felonies that caused his death.
Ruby Arbery, Ahmaud’s aunt, said she “felt something lift off her” as the judge read the verdicts. wapo.st/3p1MLR7
At least seven of the 10 dead after the Astroworld Festival were clustered in a small area enclosed on three sides by metal barriers that became dangerously crowded, according to a Washington Post investigation. wapo.st/3FKUslm
Using exclusive video, interviews with witnesses and expert crowd analysis, The Post reconstructed the chaos in one section of the audience at rapper Travis Scott’s music festival. wapo.st/3FKUslm
Ten fans at the Nov. 5 concert in Houston died and dozens more were injured, making it one of the most deadly concerts in the nation’s history.
The Post found that most of those who died were close to each other in the viewing area’s south quadrant. wapo.st/3FKUslm
If all goes well, the spacecraft that NASA plans to launch today will smash itself to bits against an asteroid.
If all goes absolutely perfectly, that impact will jostle the asteroid into a slightly different orbit. wapo.st/3r0vha9
Mission success would mean that for the first time, humans will have changed the trajectory of a celestial object.
Making history, however, is incidental. The real mission is to defend the planet. wapo.st/3r0vha9
The basic idea could not be simpler: Hit it with a hammer! But the degree of difficulty is high, in part because no one has ever actually seen the asteroid NASA plans to nudge.
It is a moonlet named Dimorphos that is about the size of a football stadium. wapo.st/3r0vha9