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Authorities in Indiana said they are investigating a gynecologist who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old girl who had been raped -- a flashpoint case in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn the federal right to end a pregnancy.

Caitlin Bernard said earlier this month that she had treated the girl in Indianapolis after being contacted by a colleague in neighboring Ohio.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is among the many conservatives who denied the reports that a 10-year-old was raped and was forced to seek an abortion in another state.

Jordan tweeted about the story calling it: "Another lie. Anyone surprised?" It quoted a story about Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office, which also said that they found no evidence to support the rape charge.

Donald Trump's advisers are urging him to announce a 2024 presidential campaign before Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) testifies before a grand jury in Georgia.

The special grand jury empaneled in Fulton County issued a subpoena to the South Carolina Republican to testify about Trump's efforts to overturn his election loss in the state, and the former president's advisers seem to think he should announce another White House bid to stay ahead of that investigation, reported New York Magazine.

U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview aired Wednesday that he would be willing to go to war with Iran to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon, a position that drew condemnation from advocacy groups and foreign policy analysts who questioned the moral, strategic, and legal bases for such a stance.

"It makes absolutely zero sense that he won't delist the IRGC to prevent an Iranian nuke but would launch a war to prevent an Iranian nuke."

After Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed that the slate of fake Trump electors his office passed on to former Vice President Mike Pence came from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), the latter Republican vehemently denied any such thing happened.

However, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Kelly appears to be investigating whether it did.

After Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to now-President Joe Biden, one of the most vocal supporters of the Big Lie in Trump’s cabinet was then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — who joined Trump in falsely claiming that the 2020 election had been stolen from him and in trying to get the election results overturned. Meadows even discussed his hopes of keeping Trump in the White House with the wife of a U.S. Supreme Court justice: GOP activist and “Stop the Steal” conspiracy theorist Ginni Thomas, who is married to Justice Clarence Thomas.

Journalists Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley examine Meadows’ possible legal exposure in an article published by Rolling Stone on July 13, reporting that “Trump’s inner circle increasingly views Meadows as a likely fall guy for the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.”

On Thursday, Newsweek reported that a new study finds significant differences in reported mental health among voters who backed former President Donald Trump in 2020, and voters who backed President Joe Biden.

"Overall, a majority (87 percent) of the 1,750 American adults taking part in the study published in Political Research Quarterly declared that their general health was 'about the same,' with 71 percent saying their mental health has also not gotten significantly better or worse since the 2020 presidential election," reported Ewan Palmer. "However, when broken down between those who voted for the former and the current president, those who supported the Republican were less likely to report they now have better mental health, but not general health, than their counterparts who voted for the current president."

Rep. Jim Jordan is facing deep criticism for his recent attempt to downplay reports of a 10-year-old rape victim having to travel to another state to get an abortion.

The Republican lawmaker's remarks came after President Joe Biden mentioned the case last week and signed an executive order to provide certain protections for access to abortions; a move that quickly drew negative reactions from Republicans. Jordan was one of many to express doubt and apprehension about the rape case.

Sgt. Aquilino Gonell revealed that Republican lawmakers have avoided him since he was injured in the Jan. 6 insurrection, and he can only conclude they consider him an enemy.

The Capitol police officer will be forced into early retirement due to long-term injuries, and he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that only two GOP lawmakers -- House select committee members Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger -- have spoken to him since the U.S. Capitol riot, although some of the Republicans who voted against Joe Biden's certification have publicly supported the rioters.

Former President Barack Obama was repeatedly called the "Cheerleader in Chief" and rarely expressed negative emotions or criticism in public, but once during the 2020 presidential election he privately reached out to Dr. Ronny Jackson to criticize his former White House physician.

Jackson is now U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, after leaving the White House where he served as Physician to the President under both President Obama and President Donald Trump. He became a far-right pro-Trump acolyte – denigrating candidate and later President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump will return to Washington, D.C., for the first time since skipping out on Joe Biden's inauguration, and as polls show Republican voters might prefer another candidate for the 2024 presidential nomination.

The former president will headline an event starting July 25 for the America First Policy Institute, a 501(C)(3) non-profit led by former administration officials Linda McMahon, Larry Kudlow and Brooke Rollins, that will focus on frequent Fox News topics like energy and gasoline prices, inflation, "control" of children's education and border security, reported Axios.

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has authorized a reorganization of the country's Jewish community, a "component" of national culture in the North African country, according to the royal palace.

The measures were presented to a council of ministers meeting attended on Wednesday by the country's monarch and crown prince, at Rabat's royal palace.

Progressive campaigners on Wednesday responded with frustration to reporting that Congressman Josh Gottheimer may rally right-wing House Democrats to thwart a potential reconciliation package party leaders are working out with Sen. Joe Manchin.

"Gottheimer is just being a saboteur, totally captured by his financial sector donors."