The Best of the Week’s News

• Two New York rabbis stand accused of kidnapping and torturing recalcitrant husbands to force them to grant their wives religious divorces.

• Pharmaceutical companies paid tens of thousands of dollars to attend meetings to shape FDA policy on painkillers.

• New York City parents who have lost custody of their children for alleged neglect are supporting each other in their bids to earn their kids back.

• Iowa regulators are moving ahead on a plan to ban abortion-by-telemedicine, despite a pending court case.