Missouri House votes to make it easier for women to access birth control

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-controlled House has voted to increase women’s access to birth control by allowing pharmacists to prescribe oral contraceptives. Tuesday’s 97-50 vote in the House sends the measure to the Senate. Under Republican Rep. Sheila Solon’s bill, those under 18 would have to show pharmacists a doctor’s previous prescription. The…

FBI still studying vulnerability on iPhone

WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI Director James Comey says the FBI is still studying the software vulnerability that allowed the agency, with third party help, to access a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California attackers. He told an audience at a Georgetown University conference Tuesday that “we’re really close to sorting that…