Joe Biden Hits Another Year-High Approval Rating In New Poll, Thanks To Women
Since July, women voters’ approval of Biden in the Emerson College survey has jumped 10 percentage points, from 39% to 49%.
Since July, women voters’ approval of Biden in the Emerson College survey has jumped 10 percentage points, from 39% to 49%.
No Air Force documents indicate that J.R. Majewski — a Trump-boosting Republican running in a swing district — actually deployed to Afghanistan.
A treaty from the Andrew Jackson era allows the tribe to send a representative to Congress, but questions on seating remain.
A new series examines how protests that erupted over a police killing three decades ago offer important lessons for the Black Lives Matter movement today. We speak to the family of Phillip Pannell, a 16-year-old Black boy who was fatally shot in the back in 1990 by a white police officer later acquitted for the killing. Pannell is the subject of “Model America,” a new four-part series by MSNBC that looks at the racial divide in the U.S.
Climate activists, led by Fridays for Future, are holding a global climate strike today to pressure world leaders to do more to address the crisis. We speak to Mikaela Loach, who has helped lead the fight against developing the Cambo oil field off the coast of Scotland and who describes the importance of seeing antiracism and climate activism as linked.
Antiwar protests are flaring up in Russia after President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a partial military mobilization to add 300,000 troops into its armed forces. Over 1,300 protesters have been arrested at antiwar demonstrations, with one prominent rights group saying some protesters are being forced to enlist or face heavy jail time.
The “Donda” rapper, who changed his legal name to Ye last year, said one Florida Republican has a chance to become president in 2024.
Meghan McCain called the Georgia gubernatorial candidate “sick” for saying “there is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks” of pregnancy.
“Voters are rejecting the cynical reality that is the MAGA Republican movement,” House Democrats’ campaign chief said.
Raymond Dearie tells the legal team to detail what Trump claims was “planted” at his Florida resort, even though the ex-president watched the search on video.
J.R. Majewski represented himself as an Air Force combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan. That wasn’t the case.
We speak to Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío about U.S.-Cuba relations, sanctions and more. He is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, where countries are expected to vote again in favor of lifting the 60-year economic blockade imposed by the U.S. on Cuba.
An attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia left more than 200 people dead before a ceasefire was called last Wednesday. It was the latest round of fighting between the two neighbors in the South Caucasus, which have fought a series of wars over territory. For more, we speak with Armenia-based reporter Roubina Margossian, who has reported from the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh that is at the center of the conflict.
Protests in Iran continue after the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in custody of the so-called morality police. Mahsa Amini died last week after being detained for allegedly leaving some of her hair visible in violation of an Iranian law requiring women to cover their heads. Witnesses said Amini was severely beaten by police, but authorities claim she died of natural causes.
Former President Donald Trump is facing his greatest legal peril yet, as New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday against Trump, three of his children and his family business for widespread financial fraud. The suit alleges they overvalued assets by billions of dollars in order to secure more favorable financial arrangements, then deflated those values to pay less in taxes.
As human rights advocates denounce efforts by Republicans to send dozens of buses full of asylum seekers to sanctuary cities across the United States, we look at the related history of the Reverse Freedom Rides of 1962, when Southern segregationists bused Black families to the North to antagonize Northern liberals and civil rights activists.
A former state prosecutor said there “really isn’t a whole lot of room” for Trump to wiggle his way out of the New York civil suit against him.
The former president makes a wild new claim about the extent of his powers while in office.
New York Attorney General Letitia James noted the investigation started only after Trump’s former personal attorney shed light on the financial misconduct.
The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly lobbied lawmakers in Wisconsin and Arizona to overturn the 2020 election results.
A federal appeals court has lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use classified records seized from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
Half of full-time workers in the United States cannot make ends meet. Thousands of them work for the Walt Disney Company. One of them reached out to the dissident heiress Abigail Disney, whose grandfather Roy Disney built what is often called the “happiest place on Earth.” Now she’s made a documentary about how the family business exploits its workers: “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.
Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial,” was released Monday after a Maryland judge vacated his murder conviction due to evidence withheld during the trial that might have helped exonerate him. Syed spent 23 years in prison after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee as a teenager in 1999. He has not been declared legally innocent, and prosecutors could decide to retry the case, but that appears unlikely.
An open letter signed by over 200 humanitarian groups calls on world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to urgently take action on world hunger, citing that one person dies of hunger every four seconds. We speak with Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America, one of the letter’s signatories, who just returned from Somaliland, where a famine may be declared as early as next month.
As Monday’s state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of a national period of mourning in Britain, we speak with the U.K.’s first professor of Black studies, Kehinde Andrews, about the generational difference in perceptions of the queen within his Jamaican family, which he lays out in his recent essay, “I Don’t Mourn the Queen.
The former first lady is acting like she does give a f**k about Christmas after all, as she hawks a new line of festive ornaments.
The advisory group said the new guidance can help identify these conditions early so people can be connected to care.
Judge Raymond Dearie said the ex-president had to show proof the documents found at Mar-a-Lago had been declassified: “You can’t have your cake and eat it.
“These immigrants … experienced cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country,” the lawsuit targeting the Florida governor and other officials states.
The former president loves to brag about his “win-loss” record. He does not discuss how many of his “winners” are liable to lose this November.