 | | | highlights | | A judge in California partially blocked a set of Trump administration rules that allow employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers women’s birth control from taking effect. “Today’s court ruling stops another attempt by the Trump Administration to trample on women’s access to basic reproductive care,” said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
| | | | The deadly winter storm that clobbered the Midwest and East Coast over the weekend is blowing out to sea. It leaves behind as much as 13 inches of snow in Washington, D.C. and Virginia. Despite the storm’s retreat “up north it’s going to stay cold,” said Jim Hayes, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland. | | | | The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to ask the FBI about a report it launched a probe into whether President Donald Trump had been working on Russia’s behalf , suggesting the agency may have gone too far. “If this really did happen, Congress needs to know about it,” Senator Lindsey Graham said on the “Fox News Sunday” program, adding “how could the FBI do that? What kinds of checks and balances are there?”
| | | | | World | | Indonesian divers have found crashed Lion Air jet's second black box. Indonesian authorities will download the contents of a cockpit voice recorder from a jet that crashed more than two months ago, killing all 189 people on board. The crash was the world’s first of a Boeing Co 737 MAX jet and the deadliest of 2018. | | | | The United Nations has called on the Myanmar government to allow “rapid and unimpeded” humanitarian access to Rakhine State. Fighting between government troops and autonomy-seeking rebels has displaced thousands of people. The Rakhine State government issued a notice last week blocking non-governmental organizations and U.N. agencies from traveling to rural areas in five townships in the northern and central parts of the state affected by the conflict.
| | | | Commentary: No, Brexit Britain doesn't want its empire back. One of the most common fantasies about the mindset of those who voted for Brexit is that they are hopelessly mired in longing for Britain's past glory, writes columnist John Lloyd. "Yet no body of opinion, no organization, no individual capable of thought wants an empire." While tensions and racism do exist, "they did not define British society before Brexit, and do not now."
| | | | | | .@Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been imprisoned in Myanmar for 399 days. Follow updates on the case: https://reut.rs/2FykBaY 6:47 AM - 14 Jan 2019 | | | |
