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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is introducing a new bill to strip FDA approval from the popular abortion pill mifepristone. The new bill builds upon proposed legislation Hawley introduced last year that would ban mifepristone and allow women to sue manufacturers profiting off of what the lawmaker deems an "inherently dangerous" drug. The Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act was introduced in the Senate Tuesday and would prohibit the use of mifepristone for ending pregnancies.  "The science is clear: The chemical abortion drug is inherently dangerous to women and prone to abuse. Yet major companies like Danco Laboratories are making billions off it," Hawley told Fox News Digital in a statement. "That's why I am introducing new legislation to ban the use of mifepristone for abortion and empower women to sue its manufacturers. Congress must act now to protect the health and safety of women." If passed, the legislation would withdraw...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet   —  WordPress's publishing software can now run entirely in the web browser, the organization behind the open source publishing software announced on Wednesday.

During the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations Houston arrested 414 illegal aliens charged or convicted for child sex offenses.  The figure amounts to nearly twice as much as the 211 arrested during the final year of President Joe Biden's tenure, according to a press release. "As a group, the arrested criminal illegal aliens accounted for 761 child sex offenses and 525 other criminal offenses ranging from homicide to robbery," ICE noted in the release . The Trump administration has been working to crack down on illegal immigration since he returned to office last year. MAN ACCUSED OF SPRAYING ANTI-ICE GRAFFITI AT OKLAHOMA CAPITOL IS REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDER; CHARGES FILED One of the individuals arrested was a man who unlawfully reentered the country a whopping 12 times, according to ICE. "Juan Leonardo Garcia Ibarra, a 48-year-old criminal illegal alien ...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M   —  Sandbar, a startup by former Meta employees Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, attracted much attention last year when it showed off its note-taking wearable, the Stream ring.

In a little over a year, the United States has carried out dozens of airstrikes on vessels in the Caribbean tied to alleged narco-trafficking networks, launched sustained operations against Houthi forces in the Red Sea, captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro , struck Iranian nuclear facilities and now embarked on an extended military campaign aimed at degrading Tehran’s missile, drone and command infrastructure. The tempo marks one of the most assertive stretches of American force projection in recent years, spanning Latin America, the Middle East and critical maritime corridors. For War Secretary Pete Hegseth , it also represents a striking turn.  HEGSETH BLASTS BRITS, SAYS IRAN'S CHAOTIC RETALIATION HAS DRIVEN ITS OWN ALLIES 'INTO THE AMERICAN ORBIT' Just before the 2024 presidential election, he described himself as a "recovering neocon," expressing regret over his support for Iraq-era interventionism and warning against open-ended wars.  Several ana...

Jake Angelo / Fortune : NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics   —  Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every part of daily American life.  It's being adopted across the professional sphere …