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Gail Collins is a partisan Democrat columnist for The New York Times. How partisan? From 2007 through Election Day 2020, she wrote 58 columns that included the story that Mitt Romney put his Irish setter on the roof of his car in a luggage crate on a family vacation trip to Canada. She’s so partisan that when Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, she wanted George W. Bush to resign so Obama could be inaugurated on the spot.

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Bills address abortion pills, civil lawsuits and helping minors seek the procedure OKLAHOMA CITY — Nearly two years after Republican lawmakers banned most abortions, they’ve filed a slate of legislation to further restrict access to the procedure. GOP lawmakers filed bills this year to crack down on access to abortion-inducing pills, punish people who help minors obtain abortions and allow for civil lawsuits against doctors who perform the procedure in violation of state law.

PITTSBURGH — Punxsutawney Phil, Western Pennsylvania’s famed weather-predicting groundhog, predicted an early spring Friday morning after he emerged from his burrow and did not see his shadow. The mystical marmot was summoned at dawn by the members of the Groundhog Club Inner Circle, a group of local dignitaries tasked with caring for Phil and organizing the annual Groundhog Day at Gobbler’s Knob — a small hill approximately 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

President Joe Biden is making no secret of his plans for multiple attacks on an Iran-backed group that killed three US soldiers last week, a strategy that’s exposed him to criticism he’s giving up the element of surprise.

Ukraine’s top general doubled down on a confrontation with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over military leadership, escalating a power struggle in Kyiv at a critical time in the war against Russia’s invasion.