Power Up: Trump's Golan Heights decision deals Netanyahu a victory before elections
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed into law"one of the strictest abortion bans in the country, making it even more difficult for women to get abortions in a state where only one clinic still operates,”. “The bill, set to take effect in July, bans abortions after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat during an ultrasound, unless the mother’s health is at extreme risk. Heartbeats can be heard just six weeks after conception — before some women even know they are pregnant.
While “the statement has no immediate practical effect,” it puts the Trump administration squarely in Israel’s camp in deciding who controls the area seized from Syria in the 1967 Arab War, Anne Gearan, Loveday Morris and Carol MorelloThe symbolic reversal of U.S. neutrality is also at odds with most of our allies and the United Nations, “which has declared the annexation of Golan Heights an illegal occupation under international law.” AP's Matthew Lee and Deb Riechmann.
Power Up spoke with The Post's bureau chief in Jerusalem, Loveday Morris, about how the announcement is playing on the ground:
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