Good morning from Washington, where many eyes are on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she arrives in Taiwan despite China’s threats. Fred Lucas reports. In Kansas, voters decide that the state constitution should protect a woman’s right to abortion. Our Virginia Allen is on the ground. On the podcast, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ponders what young Americans care about. Plus: the fight over superconductor chips; parents oppose California’s transgender bills; a new front in the pro-life movement; and GOP candidates confront media bias. On this date in 1949, after a three-year contest to win players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merge to form the National Basketball Association.
Chinese Communist Party officials react to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision by ratcheting up their rhetoric, promising military drills near Taiwan, and taking punitive economic actions.
"If anything, I think [young Americans are] more libertarian than they are liberal, in the sense that at their core, they just want to live their own lives," the former Wisconsin governor says.
Killing a child in the womb no longer requires traveling to an abortion clinic. It can be accomplished without leaving home through a two-drug combination approved by the FDA in 2000.
