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High court lets anti-abortion law remain Tribune Content Agency WASHINGTON – A sharply divided Supreme Court officially declined late Wednesday to halt a Texas law that effectively bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, meaning the law will remain in force while a coalition led by abortion providers pursues a legal challenge to strike it down. In a 5-4 decision handed down just before midnight, the five members of the court’s conservative wing ruled that the providers had raised “serious concerns” about the constitutionality of the Texas law. But they said the “complex and novel” procedural questions raised by the unusual design of the law – in which private citizens would enforce it instead of state officials – meant the Supreme Court could not stop it from going into effect Wednesday. The ruling drew sharp rebukes in dissents from
the three justices on the court’s liberal wing, and one from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who pointed out how Texas lawmakers had designed the law just to evade such a preliminary judicial review. The four dissenters would have stopped the unprecedented law from taking effect, as Roberts put it, “so that the courts may consider whether a state can avoid responsibility for its laws in such a manner.” Instead, almost exactly 24 hours earlier, with the law taking effect and no word yet from the Supreme Court, most abortions became illegal in Texas under a law that conflicts with long-standing rulings that prohibit bans on abortion before viability, or the time when a fetus could survive outside the womb. “The Court has rewarded the State’s effort to delay federal review of a plainly unconstitutional statute, See Court, Page A8
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Floodwater surrounds vehicles following heavy rain on an expressway in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday.
Ida delivers deadly lesson on climate change Tribune Content Agency As Ida’s deadly waters receded Thursday from subway stations and roads, playgrounds and apartments, stunned residents of New York and New Jersey confronted their vulnerability as the old norms of weather no longer apply. The remnants of a hurricane that first hammered distant New Orleans unleashed a torrent intense enough
to kill at least 40 people across the Northeast, to paralyze the nation’s largest and wealthiest city, to halt its lifeblood transit system and conjure a future where residents and economy are constrained by recurrent disasters. New York and its suburbs, which rebuilt power grids, subways and tunnels after 2012’s Hurricane Sandy flooded See Ida, Page A8
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Kyle Green gives a tour of the Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, Thursday.
Group shares Mare Island Naval Cemetery history with visitors Susan Hiland
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MARE ISLAND — The Mare Island Naval Cemetery might be small, but it is overflowing with history. Everything from an accused murderess, people killed in an explosion thought to be the work of saboteurs, and Russians sailors can be found entombed at the military cemetery. The Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia hosted a tour of the grounds Thursday for those who are part of the society, along with visitors. About 20 people came out to hear tales of those long gone. Mare Island’s cemetery is the oldest U.S. Navy cemetery in the country. The first burial was in 1856, according to tour guide Kyle Green, who was asked to provide the group with the history of the cemetery.
Los Angeles Times SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — President Joe Biden declared an emergency in California that will allow federal assistance for the Caldor fire, which has burned hundreds of structures and continues moving toward Nevada. The fire barreled toward Lake Tahoe for several days amid heavy winds. But that threat became one of many as the fire moved in other directions, including north toward Wrights
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firefighter working as part of the state’s interagency effort on the Caldor fire. “They did lose some outbuildings, but the main lodge was not damaged,” Moore said. Active structure defense is ongoing in Twin Bridges and Strawberry. As of Thursday morning, 622 homes and 12 commercial properties had been destroyed by the fire, officials said. More than 32,000 structures
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The first person buried was George Dowd, who died Feb. 11, 1856, aboard the USS Massachusetts. He was buried the next day in a service officiated by the Rev. Mr. Hunt from San Francisco. Among the approximately 900 buried here is the daughter of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the national anthem; murderess Lucy Lawson; and six Russian sailors who were laid to rest near the middle of the cemetery during the Civil War era. The Russian sailors served aboard the Bogatyr, the flagship of Admiral A.A. Popov’s Pacific Squadron that visited the Bay Area in 1863. They came to provide assistance to Union ships during our Civil War. Four of them died fighting a fire in San Francisco while they were stationed here. They were originally laid to rest with wooden crosses, but those were replaced in a rather uncon-
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