Obama heads to G-20 with new urgency
WASHINGTON – The global anxiety sparked by a series of deadly attacks in Paris by the Islamic State group has given new urgency to President Barack Obama’s upcoming talks with world leaders.
The crisis in Syria, where the IS has taken root, was already high on the agenda at the meeting of 20 leading industrialized and emerging-market nations. But the violence in Paris that killed at least 129 people will dramatically change the dynamic of the talks in Antalya, Turkey, a resort city just a few hundred miles from the Syrian border.
In remarks from the White House Obama said, “We’re going to do whatever it takes to work with the French people and with nations around the world to bring these terrorists to justice and to go after any terrorist networks that go after our people.”
Texas abortion law before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is giving a hearing to a dispute about state regulation of abortion clinics in the court’s first abortion case in eight years.
The justices will hear arguments, probably in March, over a Texas law that would leave about 10 abortion clinics open across the state. A decision should come in June.
The case tests whether tough new standards for clinics and doctors who work in them are reasonable measures intended to protect women’s health or a pretext designed to make abortions difficult to obtain.
Associated Press
