🧐The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for lawmakers to severely limit or ban abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to abortion under the Iowa Constitution.

Friday’s ruling comes amid expectations that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. If that happens, Iowa lawmakers could ban abortion without completing the lengthy process of amending the state constitution.

The Iowa decision stemmed from a lawsuit filed by abortion providers who challenged a 2020 law that required a 24-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion. A judge struck down the law citing the state high court’s 2018 ruling. The judge also concluded that the law violated rules prohibiting the passage of bills with more than one subject.

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📲📡The Federal Aviation Administration says it expects AT&T and Verizon to be able to more or less fully roll out their 5G C-band networks by July 2023, after multiple delays due to concerns about the radio waves affecting vital safety equipment on planes.

The plan, which the FAA says is the result of collaboration between regulators, carriers, and the aviation industry, will allow carriers to turn on their equipment in “carefully considered phases” as airlines work to retrofit their planes with equipment that will mitigate any potential interference from cellular signals.

There are still a few questions up in the air: the FAA’s statement doesn’t make it clear who’s paying for equipment to be retrofitted onto the planes or which areas will be the first (and last) to get the C-band rollout.

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⚔️ 🎞 Winter Is Coming! HBO is developing a sequel to the Game of Thrones centered on the character Jon Snow, The Hollywood Reporter says.

The new series will show Snow's life after the final of the legendary fantasy drama.

British actor Kit Harington is expected to reprise the role, according to the media outlet.

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💵📉Bitcoin dropped by 6.98% below $20,000 for the first time since December 2020, trading data from the largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance showed on Saturday.

🇺🇸A New York Federal Reserve Bank model puts the odds of a US economic recession at 80%, bank analysts said in a blog post just days after Fed Chair Jerome Powell denied such a downturn was imminent, despite the biggest interest rate hike in 28 years.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Biden administration plans to deliver four drones to Ukraine were suspended amid fears that the equipment’s advanced surveillance technology might fall into the hands of Russian forces, Reuters reported citing two people familiar with the matter.

🎥 The Russian military has delivered more than 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the residents of liberated areas in the Kharkov region

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🎥 Some 12 new five-storeyed apartment blocks and a medical centre will be built on the spot of the market in Mariupol

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CEO of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft, Igor Sechin, delivered his keynote speech at the SPIEF:

🔺 The global economic crisis is gaining momentum not because of sanctions, but exacerbated by them;

🔺 Europe 'commits energy suicide' by sanctioning Russia;

🔺 After exhausting sanctions against Iran, Venezuela and Russia, the US can go after their own companies;

🔺 Russia with its energy potential 'is Noah's Ark of the world economy';

🔺 BP announced its withdrawal from Rosneft, but it is still a shareholder and shows its willingness to stay and survive the crisis without any real losses;

🔺 US accusations of Rosneft's participation in supplies of Iranian oil to Europe is absolutely unfounded and groundless;

🔺 Sanctions against Russia have done away with the green transition, as it is no longer needed to manipulate the market

🎥 "We're Russians": In the midst of heavy Ukrainian artillery fire in downtown Donetsk a woman says Ukraine is shooting at civilians to force them to think like Ukrainians rather than Russians

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❗️ The St Petersburg International Economic Forum came under a 140 gigabyte per second DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack emanating from computers in the US and Ukraine

❗️ Russian MoD's latest update on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ 180 areas containing Ukrainian troops have been hit by rocket forces and artillery in 24 hours, more than 310 nationalists have been eliminated;

▪️ Russian air defence has destroyed attack aircraft, a helicopter and eight Ukrainian UAVs;

▪️ Oil refining facilities and fuel storage for the supply of Ukrainian military equipment were destroyed in the Kremenchug and Lisichansk regions;

▪️ Russian Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian platoons with American howitzers M777;

▪️ Russian air defence has destroyed four Tochka-U missiles, and 24 Uragan projectiles;

▪️ Since the beginning of the operation more than 340 Ukrainian air defence systems were destroyed.

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🎥 "They've lost sight of the fact that we're human": A Mariupol resident reveals how Ukrainian Nazis tortured civilians, including women

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👽 “There are lots of mysteries out there": Former US President Bill Clinton says he sent agents to Area 51 to look for aliens during his presidency

In a new TV interview the former president admitted that he and Chief of Staff John Podesta, “made every attempt to find out everything about Roswell,” and even “sent people to Area 51 to make sure there were no aliens.”

“But there’s no aliens that I know [of],” he added.

Clinton's comments come as NASA recently said it would be launching an investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena even as the US Congress held an open discussion on UFOs.

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🎥 "It's heartbreaking to be here": American journalist Patrick Lancaster filmed the aftermath of the shelling of the Kuibyshev region of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops.

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🚗 A man with an anti-Trump sticker on his car crashed into a store selling pro-Trump merchandise in Massachusetts.

The Easton Police Department said Thursday the driver of a 2015 Volkswagen Jetta suffered non-life-threatening injuries when he drove into the New England for Trump store in Washington Street.

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