内容摘要：“These bans force women to surrender their rights any time they are pregnant,” Bramlet said. “This state has never legislated away a man’s right to his health care decisions.”

“These bans force women to surrender their rights any time they are pregnant,” Bramlet said. “This state has never legislated away a man’s right to his health care decisions.”

Federal law bars foreign nationals from contributing to campaigns or political committees. But the new Kansas law will bar groups campaigning for or against proposed amendments to the state constitution from accepting contributions “directly or indirectly” from foreign nationals. The groups also will have to certify that no named donors received more than $100,000 from a foreign national during the previous four years, and groups violating the law can be barred from electioneering for four years.Kansans for Constitutional Freedom said it wants to raise money for a campaign in 2026 against a proposal from Republicans to amend the state constitution to end the governor’s appointment of state Supreme Court justices and

The group sees the measure as attacking the courts’ independence.The group raised almost $11 million for its effort to defeat the anti-abortion ballot question in 2022, and nearly $1.5 million came from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, campaign finance reports show.The new Kansas law passed the Republican-controlled Legislature with more than the two-thirds majority required to override a veto. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the measure “goes too far,” but let it become law without her signature.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with state ethics commission members, noted the law’s bipartisan support.“Republicans and Democrats agree that foreign corporations and foreign citizens must not be allowed to influence the outcome when Kansas constitutional amendments are placed before voters,” Kobach said in a statement Monday. “It is a core principle of self-government.”

In allowing Ohio to enforce its law, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said concerns about foreign influence in elections “date back to the Founding,” citing first President George Washington’s Farewell Address.

“And Ohioans and their representatives have a compelling interest in regulating such influence,” the appeals court majority said.Yet on Thursday Walmart

in response to the tariffs and will do so even more in June and July just as families gear up the back-to-school season. The company counts 90% of the U.S. population as customers and price hikes at the nation’s largest retailer may start to sink in with Americans who have already been buffeted by post-pandemic inflation.The survey found consumers are increasingly worried about rising inflation. Over the next 12 months, consumers expect inflation to jump to 7.3%, the highest since 1981 and up from an expectation of 6.5% last month. Over the next five years, they foresee inflation reaching 4.6%, the highest since 1991, up from 4.4% last month.

Those expectations typically run higher than actual inflation, which, the lowest level in more than four years. Still, economists and the Federal Reserve closely watch inflation expectations, because they can become self-fulfilling. If people are worried inflation will accelerate, they may take steps, such as demanding higher pay, that can push up prices.