Legislators say they’re taking what they see as a politically and legally safer approach, even if it means the vast majority of abortions in their states could still take place.
In interview with POLITICO, the billionaire philanthropist lays out a battle plan that goes beyond responding to the coronavirus.
More hospital patients contracted Covid-19 last month than at any point of the pandemic, a POLITICO analysis of federal health data shows.
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
The government reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, the most widely watched gauge of inflation, hit a four-decade high in December compared to the previous year.
On the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, we speak with the civil rights leader’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz about her family’s call for a federal probe into his murder, following the exoneration of two men who were wrongfully convicted. “We want to know who killed our father, and we want to make sure that it is properly recorded in history,” says Shabazz.
Former Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for fatally shooting Black driver Daunte Wright after mistaking her gun for a Taser. We speak to Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Wright family, about Judge Regina Chu’s sympathy expressed for Potter during closing statements and how white criminals tend to receive lighter sentences. “Police officers, when it comes to Black people, they always do the most,” says Crump.
The average person who carries a fetus does not even realize they’re pregnant at that point.
The White House press secretary said the letter was “very long” and the script “lovely.
Carrolll, who is suing the former president for defamation, said Tuesday that deposing Trump would cause unnecessary delays — but still seeks a DNA sample.
Russian forces have begun invading Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he regarded sections of the neighboring nation to be “independent.
It’s time for a Black Supreme Court justice who has fought “on behalf of people who cannot afford a lawyer,” say more than two dozen groups.
Several years ago, Paul Farmer and I both spoke at a conference at Harvard on the history and future of global health. As our program finished, Paul was immediately inundated with a throng of students eager to speak with the guru of the field, the man who inspired us all and asked more of each of us. I shuffled off to speak with the few avoiding the crowd.After Paul finished with the students, he came over to give me a hug, and we made small talk.
The request marks a shift in the challenges Africa faces — from not having enough doses to not being able to quickly get those doses into arms.
As The Atlantic continues its editorial focus on exposing the crisis facing democracy and the rise of global authoritarianism, today the editors announced that the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa is joining the magazine as a contributing writer. Read more in a note to staff from editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, executive editor Adrienne LaFrance, and editorial director Denise Wills.
Updated at 5:00 p.m. ET on February 22, 2022In the space of a month, Vladimir Putin has effectively managed to transform a former Soviet state into an extension of Russian territory, in full view of the United States and Europe, without firing a single shot in the country.
The weatherman’s striped tie is still snug on his neck as he starts an evening bath for his three kids, one of whom bolts naked from the bathroom and does a lap around the kitchen before running back, feet slapping on the hardwood floor. “Okay,” Shel Winkley says, walking into the kitchen where his wife is loading the dishwasher. “I love you,” he tells her, and then he walks outside to his gray Prius, gets in, and drives to the TV station. Dinner’s over.
The actor Julia Fox met Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, on New Year’s Eve in Miami, and by the following week she was on the phone with Interview, providing behind-the-scenes commentary on all of the photos of them wearing dramatic outfits, going on expensive outings, and kissing on the floor.The first flashy celebrity romance of 2022 was glamorous to some and unsettling to others.
We remember the life and legacy of Dr. Paul Farmer, a public health icon who spent decades building community health networks helping millions of poor people in Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and beyond. He died unexpectedly Monday at the age of 62. We feature Farmer’s past interviews with Democracy Now! and speak with his longtime colleague, Dr. Joia Mukherjee.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops into two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, drawing sharp rebukes from the U.S. and other Western countries that have warned for weeks of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration issued new sanctions, and Germany has stopped the certification of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in an attempt to quash the country’s dependence on Russian natural gas.
Nearly two dozen hospital officials and association leaders told POLITICO they’ve lost just a fraction of their staff to the federal immunization requirement.
Emerging resistance to Biden’s idea of a multibillion-dollar agency to tackle some of health care’s biggest challenges reflects a widening gap over funding medical research.
In interview with POLITICO, the billionaire philanthropist lays out a battle plan that goes beyond responding to the coronavirus.
More hospital patients contracted Covid-19 last month than at any point of the pandemic, a POLITICO analysis of federal health data shows.
USAID told lawmakers earlier this month, however, that they needed several times that amount.
Even Democrats who support the additional public health funds worry the effort could derail the fragile negotiations on the core bill to fund the government.
The president’s team is putting the world vaccination effort at the center of its Covid-19 strategy. But it lacks the money to pay for it.