*Alabama IVF ruling leaves Republicans stuck between their base and the broader public.*

I am not surprised by this good news As the bully pushes his followers into increasingly extreme and cruel positions, he is sure to generate more and more opposition. Republicans' usual methods of rigging elections won't help them if the demographic groups that normally vote Republican start doing rejecting them.

Colombia's former president, Alvaro Horrible, will be tried for witness tampering and fraud.

He has been tied to the paramilitaries, gangs of criminals with close connections to the army, who were Colombia's worst terrorists.

A new EPA rule will require 200 US chemical plants to be redesigned to reduce toxic pollution.

A bomb was planted on the Satanic Temple. It did little damage, due to an apparent malfunction, but it looks like right-wing terrorism.

*US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales.*

This is a step forward, but we urgently need strict laws about safe storage and transport of guns.