Abortion returns to the Supreme Court
 THE BIG STORY
Anti-abortion activists had a plan to get to the Supreme Court. It worked.
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would hear a case about a Mississipi abortion law during the next term, and consider whether any ban on abortion before a fetus is viable — that is, before it can survive outside of a person's womb — is unconstitutional.
For state officials and anti-abortion advocates, the top court was always the destination. When Mississippi passed the law in early 2018, anti-abortion advocates knew it was unlikely to survive challenges in the lower courts. The goal was to get to the US Supreme Court.
The reason is this: abortion is a question that lower courts had considered settled as they repeatedly blocked the Mississippi law and other similar bans. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's conservative majority deepened to 6-3 with the confirmation of three conservative justices.
That the court is taking up the Mississippi case now is a sign that at least some of the justices are open to revisiting — and potentially dismantling — abortion rights that had been established for decades.  Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
Some Postmates delivery drivers won't be allowed to work for Uber after its acquisition
There's a consolidation craze in the food delivery market — Uber bought Postmates in December, for $2.65 billion. Seamless merged with Grubhub, which in turn was bought by Just Eat, a leading European food delivery company, for $7.3 billion. DoorDash acquired Caviar.
Acquisitions are not new, of course, but for gig workers, the union of two industry competitors means being increasingly dependent on the terms set by a single company.
At least half a dozen gig workers told us they're experiencing unexplained delays in the transition to Uber's platform, and some with traffic violations or criminal histories are being denied approval to drive for the app altogether. SNAPSHOTS
A 6-year-old Palestinian girl was pulled alive from rubble hours after an Israeli airstrike killed her mother and four of her siblings. Suzy Eshkuntana's young brothers and sisters were among the 10 children who did not survive the deadliest day of recent Israeli air raids in Gaza. A heads up: This post contains disturbing images.
A man and his nephew are still grappling with the trauma of being separated at the border by the Biden administration. Immediately after landing on the banks of the Rio Grande in Roma, Texas, Gerbert promised his crying 4-year-old nephew that he would never leave him. But days later, inside a Border Patrol facility, he was forced to break that vow.
Ariana Grande married Dalton Gomez in a "tiny and intimate" ceremony. The couple, who've been dating for just over a year, got engaged in December after spending most of the pandemic quarantined together. They got married in a small ceremony in Grande's home. Gomez works as a real estate agent and sells luxury homes in California.
12 great books that reimagine masculinity. From bell hooks to Brandon Taylor, these authors, critical of the masculinity we've been stuck with for generations, are sketching a blueprint for how men might change in the future. SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
How Shrek changed animated movies forever
This week, the tale of a beloved green ogre turns 20. Shrek came to dominate in unexpected ways — the franchise's main films pulled more than 3 billion dollars at the box office, not to mention the mountains of merchandise, a Broadway musical, and a theme park.
The thing is, though, Shrek's success was rather unlikely. For the 20th anniversary of the movie, I wrote about how Shrek changed animation forever, and how it somehow hit the sweet spot for the young children it was made for, the critics who loved it, and, in my case, the snarky preteens who were growing dissatisfied with what children's movies had to offer.  WELL, THIS IS AWKWARD Scarlett Johansson's husband covered her in slime while she was making a speech at the MTV Movie Awards and it was so awkward
On Sunday, Scarlett Johansson accepted the 2021 MTV Generation Award. She was in the middle of thanking the fans who made it all possible when she was met by, uh, an unwelcome interruption.
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