Day: April 20, 2025

Guttmacher report finds 155,000 people crossed state lines for procedure – double number who did so before Roe’s fall

For the second year in a row, abortion providers performed more than 1m abortions in the United States in 2024. About 155,000 people crossed state lines for abortions – roughly double the number of patients who did so in 2020, before the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade and paved the way for more than a dozen state-level abortion bans to take effect.

These numbers, released earlier this week by the abortion rights-supporting Guttmacher Institute, have not changed much since 2023, when the US also performed more than 1m abortions and 169,000 people traveled for the procedure.

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Reform UK leader on campaign trail as poll predicts rightwing party could be on course to win in a general election

Nigel Farage has defended allowing labelled chlorinated chicken from the US as part of a trade deal, as a new poll suggested his Reform party could be on course to take the highest number of seats at a general election.

Speaking ahead of the local elections in England, the Reform leader said British consumers already eat chicken from places such as Thailand reared in poor conditions, and accept chlorine-washed lettuce.

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Home Office intervened after initial ruling allowing grandmother with terminal cancer to join family in Glasgow

A Syrian refugee says the Home Office has “broken her heart” by trying to bar her mother, who has weeks to live, from coming to the UK to spend her final days with the grandchildren she has never met.

Ola Al Hamwi fled Syria with her husband, Mostafa Amonajid, in 2015. They had lost their baby after a bombing and were unable to take Al Hamwi’s mother, Soaad Al Shawa,with them.

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Google intelligence report finds UK is a particular target of IT worker ploy that sends wages to Kim Jong Un’s state

British companies are being urged to carry out job interviews for IT workers on video or in person to head off the threat of giving jobs to fake North Korean employees.

The warning was made after analysts said that the UK has become a prime target for hoax IT workers deployed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. They are typically hired to work remotely, enabling them to escape detection and send their wages to Kim Jong Un’s state.

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