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WASHINGTON —  The Supreme Court on Friday ruled for the Biden administration to preserve legal access in most of the nation to an abortion pill that is part of the most common method of ending early pregnancies.In an unsigned order, the justices blocked rulings by a Texas judge and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that could have sharply restricted use of the pills or taken them off the market entirely.The vote was 7-2, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissenting.More than 5 million American women…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeQuentin Tarantino has shared his position on the debate about gun ownership in the US.There have already been more than 140 mass shootings in the United States in 2023, with gun legislation activists lamenting the lack of progress being made on new restrictions.In a new interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the Inglorious Basterds director – whose films are known for their…

A civil jury sided with Gwyneth Paltrow on Thursday, finding her not at fault in a Deer Valley Resort skiing collision with a retired doctor.The jury found the former doctor, Terry Sanderson, completely responsible for the incident, awarding Paltrow $1 in damages, the amount the actor and wellness influencer had asked for in her counterclaim. There was no disagreement that Paltrow and Sanderson had collided that day on the slopes. But throughout a civil trial over the past eight days, two wildly opposing narratives…

From Circe to Medusa via Persephone, Electra and the women of Troy, it seems there are few characters from Greek mythology left who haven’t been the subject of a feminist retelling in recent years. This year, the world of such reimaginings is expanding beyond the Greeks – although there is a clutch of those retellings, too – with the publication of books about Julia from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (Katherine Bradley’s The Sisterhood), Rosaline from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (Fair Rosaline by Natasha…

Native Call of Duty on PlayStation, not linked to them having to carry Game Pass, not streaming. If they want a streaming version of Call of Duty we could do that as well, just like we do on our own consoles.There’s nothing behind my back. It is the Call of Duty Modern Warfare II doing great on PlayStation, doing great on Xbox. The next game, the next, next, next, next, next . Native on the platform, not having to subscribe to Game Pass. Sony does not have to take Game Pass on their platform to make that happen.There’s…

The device from the inventors of robot vacuum cleaners, gets a navigation technology that is powered by a 13 Ghz quad core processor. It gets 500ml dustin and the company claims that it gets a run-time of 120 minutes. The company also touts about the dust filter installed in the device. Just like most of the robot vacuum cleaners in the market, it can also be controlled via app and Alexa.The US International Trade Commission said on Tuesday it would ban imports of SharkNinja Operating LLC robot vacuums that infringe a…

EU industry chief Thierry Breton said he was not taking sides in a clash between Big Tech and European telecoms operators over who should fund the rollout of 5G and broadband as the world's largest telecoms conference opened in Barcelona. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Breton defended a 12-week consultation launched last week which could require Big Tech to shoulder more of the costs. "For me the real challenge is to make sure that by 2030 our fellow citizens and business on our streets across the EU -…

A Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra concept design has surfaced on the Technizo Concept YouTube channel. This is not a leak or anything of the sort, of course, it’s just an imaginary phone, basically.This Galaxy S24 Ultra concept has flatter sides and a different camera layoutThis design is clearly inspired by the Galaxy S23 Ultra, but it’s not the same. The designer decided to change some things here. This phone has an entirely different camera design on the back, and even flatter sides than the Galaxy S23 Ultra.Its rear cameras…

A state agent testifying Wednesday in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial meticulously reconstructed activity from his iPhone and the cellphones of his son and wife the night they were killed to try to link the disgraced South Carolina attorney to the shooting deaths. The key evidence for prosecutors is a video from the son's phone of a dog at the kennels near where Murdaugh's son Paul was killed with a shotgun and wife Maggie was shot several times with a rifle at the family's Colleton County…

A U.S. appeals court ruled that pharmaceutical companies can limit their shipments of federally-discounted drugs to pharmacies, in a major win for the drugmakers and a blow to hospitals and clinics that receive the low-priced medicines. The ruling on Monday, by a three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals, was in favor of drugmakers Sanofi SA, SNY 0.33% AstraZeneca AZN 0.33%…