Pentagon Rejects DC’s Call For National Guard Help Amid Migrant Influx
D.C. Mayor Bowser said she might still be able to come to an agreement as two Southern states keep busing migrants to the capital.
D.C. Mayor Bowser said she might still be able to come to an agreement as two Southern states keep busing migrants to the capital.
Democrats will need to stay united in order to pass the Inflation Reduction Act with a simple majority.
Democrats say the Senate parliamentarian has narrowed the party’s plan for curbing drug prices but left it largely unscathed.
Some Medicare recipients spend more than $10,000 a year on lifesaving medication. That could change.
There’s a long history of book-banning in the U.S. But conservative groups are emboldened like never before, and they’re taking their mission to a new level.
We speak with international affairs scholar Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy and how Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has gained popularity among the American right ahead of his speech today at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Orbán presents, especially for the American right, a kind of irresistible combination of culture war issues,” says Scheppele.
The state made national news recently when a 10-year-old Ohio girl who had been raped traveled to Indiana to get an abortion.
“There are more people working than at any point in American history,” Biden said of the new report, adding it signals recovery from pandemic job losses.
“Instead of dancing, you stand around and watch this guy cry,” said one journalist describing the bizarre scene.
There are different ways of evaluating whether the economy is good or bad without making up new definitions of recession.
A series of ads from industry-backed groups falsely suggests cuts to Medicare are on the way.
Albert Woodfox, who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history, has died at the age of 75 due to complications tied to COVID-19. The former Black Panther and political prisoner won his freedom six years ago after surviving nearly 44 years in solitary over a wrongful murder conviction of a prison guard. Fellow imprisoned Panthers Herman Wallace and Robert King were also falsely accused of prison murders, and they collectively became known as the Angola 3.
The Department of Justice has announced federal criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers over their roles in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. The charges come after the state of Kentucky failed to prosecute any police officers for Taylor’s death, despite nationwide Black Lives Matter demands to investigate.
Nearly 60% of Kansas voters struck down a ballot measure Tuesday night that would have removed the state’s right to abortion and cleared the way for Republican state lawmakers to ban the procedure. It was the first vote on abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
As the Republican nominee, Lake will face Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in November.
The Arizona Democrat’s support for the bill paves the way for its passage as soon as next week.
Officials said four people suffered life-threatening injuries after they were found in Lafayette Square near a statue of Andrew Jackson.
Thomas Patrick Connally, Jr. sent emails saying that Biden’s chief medical adviser would be “hunted, captured, tortured and killed,” according to court records.
At least half a dozen RNC members could face prison time for their roles in the “fake elector” scheme that Trump pushed to illegally remain in office.
We speak with international affairs scholar Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy and how Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has gained popularity among the American right ahead of his speech today at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Orbán presents, especially for the American right, a kind of irresistible combination of culture war issues,” says Scheppele.
The U.N. warned this week that humanity is “one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation” as tensions escalate globally. We speak with Ira Helfand, former president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, who says the U.N. Security Council permanent members, comprising Russia, China, the U.S., the U.K. and France, are pursuing nuclear policies that are “going to lead to the end of the world that we know.
Safety conditions at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant are “completely out of control,” according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. This comes as the Russian military has deployed heavy artillery batteries and laid anti-personnel landmines at the site in recent weeks.
As New York City declares monkeypox a public health emergency, and California and Illinois have also declared states of emergency over the rapid spread of monkeypox, we speak with LGBTQ+ scholar Steven Thrasher, author of the new book, “The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide,” which explores how social determinants impact the health outcomes of different communities.
Millions of vaccines on order likely won’t be delivered until 2023.
Shri Thanedar’s victory over eight Black candidates in a Democratic primary all but precludes the possibility of Black representation for the Motor City.
They insist that voters will care more about the state of the economy in November.
Reports say the Arizona senator is protecting the carried interest loophole.
Pro-choice organizers accomplished what many believed was impossible: A win on abortion rights in a red state after the fall of Roe.
Nearly 60% of Kansas voters struck down a ballot measure Tuesday night that would have removed the state’s right to abortion and cleared the way for Republican state lawmakers to ban the procedure. It was the first vote on abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to expand healthcare and disability benefits to some 3.5 million former U.S. service members poisoned by toxic substances from waste burning pits on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.