Rep. Ted Lieu Silently Schools GOP On Jesus Christ’s Comments About Homosexuality
“I just thought I would now recite what Jesus Christ said about homosexuality,” the Democratic congressman told his fellow House members.
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House Approves Gun Control Bills, Including Higher Age For Assault Rifles
The bills don’t stand a chance of passing the Senate, however, which is working on more modest legislation.
U.S. Proposes New Marine Sanctuary Off New York, Home To Sperm Whales And Sea Turtles
The Interior Department also announced an effort to bar single-use plastics from public lands, including national parks.
Savannah Guthrie Reveals Husband Consulted For Johnny Depp’s Legal Team
The “Today” show host is married to Michael Feldman, who founded a PR consultancy firm with other Democratic campaign alumni.
The Dinosaurs Deserved Better
In Jurassic World: Dominion, a fate worse than extinction has cruelly visited the cloned dinosaurs that have been roaming on silver screens since 1993: They’ve become mundane. A nuisance. The kind of pests you might call your local wildlife department about, as you peek out your window onto the backyard and say with a sigh, “Honey, there’s another pack of Compsognathus trampling the daffodils.
Do Voters See a Difference Between Crime and Homelessness?
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Biden’s Climate Goals Rest on a 71-Year-Old Defense Law
Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer’s newsletter about living through climate change, here.A legal relic dating back to the Korean War has become one of the White House’s most important tools to pursue its climate goals.On Monday, the White House announced that it was invoking the Defense Production Act to boost manufacturing of certain technologies that will be essential for decarbonization, such as solar panels, heat pumps, and transformers for the electrical grid.
POLITICO-Harvard poll: Majority of Americans support more Covid aid for the uninsured
At the same time, more than six in 10 respondents believe that more congressional spending on Covid aid will contribute to inflation.
Is This the End of the George Floyd Moment?
Since the massive nationwide protests that erupted in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, the debate over crime and public safety in the Democratic Party has been dominated by urgent calls for reforming police departments and confronting entrenched racial inequities in the criminal-justice system. History might record yesterday’s elections in San Francisco and Los Angeles as the end of that moment.
“Intensify the Search”: Journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous Expert Bruno Pereira Missing in Brazil
British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have still not been found, after being reported missing Sunday in one of Brazil’s most remote areas of the Amazon. The pair were traveling across the region to interview Indigenous leaders patrolling the area for illegal miners and fishers for Phillips’s upcoming book. “We know that they had been receiving threats.
Indigenous Amazon Leader, Excluded from Summit of Americas, Urges Leaders to Protect Rainforest
The Biden administration has denied members of an Indigenous delegation from the Amazon rainforest entry at this week’s U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas. Meanwhile, President Biden agreed to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who told Biden he would only attend the conference if he was guaranteed immunity from criticism on his systematic destruction of the Amazon rainforest, among other policies.
“Global Embarrassment”: Mexico & More Skip Biden’s Summit of Americas for Excluding Cuba, Venezuela
Top leaders from Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are all absent from the ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced he would boycott the conference after the U.S. said it would not invite Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Billionaire Democracy? San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Ousted in Recall & L.A. Mayor Race Heads to Runoff
Progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted by voters Tuesday in a special recall election, after facing well-funded tough-on-crime attacks by the real estate industry. “He made enemies with very, very deep pockets,” says Lara Bazelon, professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law and chair of Boudin’s Innocence Commission, who describes the primary challenge as a “perfect storm” to take down Boudin.
How many Covid deaths are acceptable? Some Biden officials tried to guess.
Conversations about what Americans would tolerate didn’t go too far, underscoring the difficulty of explaining when the pandemic will end.
More cases of monkeypox expected as CDC warns of community spread
Since May, there have been more than 700 global cases of monkeypox identified in countries outside West and Central Africa where the virus is endemic.
Can long Covid lead to death? A new analysis suggests it could
The CDC is beginning to look at death certificates that indicate more than 100 people who died had long Covid.
China’s fragility feeds the doom-mongers in Davos
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.
RIP Davos Man, long live globalization
Open markets aren’t what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.
U.S. economy is in a ‘period of transition,’ White House economic adviser says
Despite high inflation, the U.S. is “moving from the strongest economic recovery in modern history to what can be a period of more stable and resilient growth,” Brian Deese said.
U.S. inflation hit 8.3% last month but slows from 40-year high
On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3% from March to April, a still-elevated rate but the smallest increase in eight months.
Karen Bass And Rick Caruso Advance In Los Angeles Mayoral Race
The congresswoman and the billionaire real estate developer, both Democrats, will compete this November to replace outgoing Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Former Child Star Ricky Schroder Has Insane ‘Demon’ Theory About Pride Month
Twitter users slammed the onetime heartthrob over the bizarre post.
San Francisco’s Progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin Recalled By Voters
The projected result marks a major setback for progressives who supported the DA’s mission of criminal justice reform.
Jesse Watters ‘Self-Owns’ With Jab At White House For Hosting Matthew McConaughey
The Fox News host, who in April chatted to DJ Pauly D about inflation, mocked the White House for hosting the actor to discuss gun control.
Iowa Democrat Franken Wins Primary To Face Grassley In Senate Race
Mike Franken beat former congresswoman Abby Finkenauer, who was widely expected to win the Democratic nomination.
News Roundup: Proud Boys indicted for seditious conspiracy; Jan. 6 committee prepares for hearings
Five top members of the far-right group Proud Boys have now been indicted for seditious conspiracy as a result of their actions in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection; the charges indicate that prosecutors believe they can prove that at least some members of the violent crowd planned their actions as means of overthrowing the United States government.
This week will also see the first public hearings of the House select committee investigating the Jan.
Hawaii—surrounded by water, big water—has lowest gun death rate in U.S., and stricter gun control
Whenever we experience one of those mass shootings that, for some reason, only ever seem to happen in this country, the gun fetishists trot out the fact that large American municipalities with strict gun control laws often have high rates of gun fatalities.
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Ukraine update: Russia attempting to take remaining villages north of Siverskyi Donets River
On Tuesday, the situation in Severodonetsk continues to be volatile, but the latest reports have the city more or less split down the center. Ukrainian forces control the industrial area on the west, as well as outlying villages and the southern edge of the city near the bridge to Lysychansk. Russia is positioned in the northern area and fighting with Ukrainian forces in the east.
Democrats land a high-profile recruit to take on a freshman Republican in south Florida
Democratic state Sen. Annette Taddeo announced on Monday that she’d drop her bid for governor and would instead seek to run against freshman GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in south Florida’s 27th Congressional District. Republicans made this seat several points redder in redistricting, shifting it from a 51-48 win for Joe Biden to a 50-49 margin for Donald Trump, but it remains one that Democrats are eager to target.
After attacking trans people on first day of Pride Month, Fox News shamelessly airs pro-LGBTQ promo
There’s shameless, and then there’s Fox News. Both Media Matters and LGBTQ blog Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters note that the propaganda outlet has aired a Pride Month promo purporting to celebrate the “incredible contributions” of LGBTQ people.