U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned Congress that the United States could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 unless lawmakers raise the debt ceiling. House Republicans last week narrowly passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling, but only in exchange for sweeping spending cuts to numerous programs, including student debt relief, food assistance, Medicaid and renewable energy.
Three conservative Supreme Court justices are now embroiled in a growing ethics scandal about their personal and financial connections.
“For a week or two, it’s kind of annoying … But after several months, it can be disastrous.
Some patients taking weight-loss and diabetes drugs end up with sulfur-smelling “eructations.
In its ideal form, a contraceptive vaccine could prevent pregnancy without the messy side effects of some hormonal birth control.
The president announces his reelection bid—a development both highly improbable and totally expected.
As we continue our in-depth conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, the famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower talks about his lifelong antiwar activism and responds to the more recent leak of Pentagon documents about the war in Ukraine. Ellsberg also reflects on the many people who inspired him and says others who look up to his example should know that the sacrifices for building a better world are worth it. “It can work,” he says.
We spend the hour with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer with only months left to live. Ellsberg, who turned 92 on April 7, may be the world’s most famous whistleblower. In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the Vietnam War.
Gasps could be heard after Florida state Rep. Jeff Holcomb’s statement.
The MSNBC host called out the former president’s oldest son.
The former president will not take the stand for a case brought forth by the advice columnist, who said Trump raped her in the ’90s.
Lawyers working under Attorney General Austin Knudsen said any intervention by the courts on Zephyr’s behalf would be a blatant violation of the separation of powers.
Conservative Brigitte Gabriel came in for a drubbing after asking, “Why are Democrats so intimidated by President Trump’s masculinity?
Sixty years ago today is known as “D-Day” in Birmingham, Alabama, when thousands of children began a 10-week-long series of protests against segregation that became known as the Children’s Crusade. Hundreds were arrested. The next day, “Double D-Day,” the local head of the police, Bull Connor, ordered his white police force to begin using high-pressure fire hoses and dogs to attack the children.
Thousands of screenwriters behind Hollywood movies and TV shows are on strike as of midnight on Tuesday. The Writers Guild of America says its members are struggling to make a living, as rates have fallen and writers have less job security — even as the streaming era has led to an explosion in TV and film production. The strike is set to bring most TV production to a halt immediately, with some films also likely to be delayed if the impasse continues.
As the country approaches a battle for its ultimate fate, democracy and Western civilization hang in the balance.
The AMC series stars Bob Odenkirk as a sympathetic dinosaur: a college professor.
Buying stuff online is stressful. Reserving a room is excruciating.
“We are terrified of making the wrong decision, of doing something that might irreversibly alter or hurt our child,” one reader, the parent of a transgender son, writes.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden pledged to deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years. Alongside South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol, Biden also pledged to involve officials from Seoul in nuclear planning operations targeting North Korea. The visit between the two leaders comes as the U.S. and South Korea mark 70 years of military alliance under 1953’s Mutual Defense Treaty, signed at the close of active conflict in the Korean War.
Tennessee’s Justin Jones and Montana’s Zooey Zephyr, two Democratic state lawmakers who were both punished by their Republican-led legislatures for peaceful protests, say the only way to fight such anti-democratic moves is through broad solidarity. “Courage is contagious,” says Zephyr, who has been barred from the floor of the Montana House of Representatives for opposing anti-trans legislation.
Zephyr, one of the state’s first transgender lawmakers, said the effort to silence her was “a disturbing and terrifying affront to democracy itself.
Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann said the cable network is “committing journalistic suicide” by giving the ex-president a outlet to spread more lies.
Their response to Clarence Thomas’ ethics scandal continues to be silence or scoffing at the idea that Congress should do anything.
Mark Lamb, a sheriff who has appeared on several TV shows, is Arizona’s first major GOP contender for a seat currently held by an independent.
Democrats are scheduled to hold a hearing into the court’s ethics woes on Tuesday morning.
As we continue our in-depth conversation with Daniel Ellsberg, the famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower talks about his lifelong antiwar activism and responds to the more recent leak of Pentagon documents about the war in Ukraine. Ellsberg also reflects on the many people who inspired him and says others who look up to his example should know that the sacrifices for building a better world are worth it. “It can work,” he says.
We spend the hour with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who recently announced that he has been diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer with only months left to live. Ellsberg, who turned 92 on April 7, may be the world’s most famous whistleblower. In 1971, The New York Times began publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 pages of top-secret documents outlining the secret history of the Vietnam War.
