Attorney General Merrick Garland says Justice Department will "continue to protect" Texas women seeking abortions
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While the Justice Department is continuing to explore what can be done to challenge the new Texas abortion ban, which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, Attorney General Merrick Garland released a statement Monday promising the department would "continue to protect" the safety of Texas women seeking abortions.
"[W]e will continue to protect those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services pursuant to our criminal and civil enforcement of the FACE Act," Garland said. He also said that the Justice Department would provide federal law enforcement support to abortion clinics or reproductive health centers that are "under attack." The FACE Act, or Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, is a 1994 law that "prohibits the use or threat of force and physical obstruction that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services." It also protects abortion centers from harm or damage.President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.