The Biden administration has announced a new policy that is set to provide government-funded legal help to vulnerable asylum-seeking children in a number of U.S. cities, BuzzFeed News reports. This is a significant initiative: Unlike in criminal court, people in immigration court aren’t guaranteed an attorney. This includes most unaccompanied children, who have had to appear in court alone.
Two mothers with children at the same Chicago Public Schools site have died of COVID-19 after 11 of 17 of the classrooms at Jensen Elementary School were in quarantine due to reported cases of the virus, according to the Chicago Teachers Union.
“Both mothers had children sent home from quarantined Jensen classrooms,” the union wrote on its website Tuesday. “One mother complained bitterly on social media that she was never contacted by a contact tracer.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here. Despite the whirlwind in Washington this week, Marco Rubio isn’t worried—at least for his own party. As of now, Democrats have reached a deal to stave off a government shutdown until December, but they still need to prevent another crisis: a first-ever default on the national debt.
Editor’s Note: This article is part of our coverage of The Atlantic Festival. Learn more and watch festival sessions here.Hillary Clinton can draw a straight line from her duels with conservative media and Republican politicians in the 1990s to the January 6 insurrection—and she fears worse is coming. “There’s always been a kind of paranoid streak in American politics,” the former secretary of state told Atlantic staff writer Jennifer Senior.
A GOP donor said Corey Lewandowski harassed her at a recent charity event in Las Vegas.
A judge issued default judgments — a rarity in the legal world — against Jones and Infowars after the conspiracy theorist failed to produce discovery records.
The process is central to the billing fix that Congress passed last year and that the administration has since been charged with implementing.
“Once again we’re in a room of legislators who are attempting to legislate reproductive systems that they know nothing about,” the congresswoman said.
Wall-to-wall coverage of the case of Gabby Petito — a 22-year-old white woman and blogger who went missing while traveling with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and whose remains were found in a national park in Wyoming — has renewed attention on what some call “missing white woman syndrome,” the media’s inordinate focus on white female victims and the disparity in coverage for women of color.
Activists continue to call on Democratic leaders to pass the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act, which expands the social safety net and includes measures to address the climate crisis. Progressives remain resolute in their opposition to passing a bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure bill unless it is paired with the larger package.
Their disagreement centers on whether the U.S. should eventually offer an additional shot to every vaccinated adult.
It’s a sign the drug industry is bending a potential compromise in manufacturers’ favor after spending more than $171 million lobbying in the first half of this year.
Either the senator from Massachusetts is playing some four-dimensional chess, or she really loathes him.
Beijing concluded it was an energy sucking money laundering tool, among other things.
Business owners and conservatives insisted on yanking away benefits. If it wasn’t productive, then it was just cruel.
He’s too sick to live independently and too toxic to let him move in.
The GOP is risking the full faith and credit of the United States to score points. Democrats don’t have to play the game.
Officials said the number of unvaccinated workers in the city is small enough that it shouldn’t cause big disruptions.
The sheer breadth of qualifying medical conditions and occupations, plus the lack of any proof requirements, means just about anyone who got the Pfizer vaccine can now seek out a booster.
The switch comes amid a growing sense of burnout and fatigue within the CDC after almost two years of fighting Covid-19.
The Biden administration last week announced that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine will be available to parts of the population.
Staff described a summer marked by demands to digest complex data in record time as the government raced to update policies in the face of Delta.
How do I even respond?
Bill has no remorse or compassion.
Parenting advice on abortion, race, and being an auntie.
Whether to eat the plant-based pig substitute is a real quandary for Muslims like me. (It looks delicious.
Key aspects of the economy are doing better than before the pandemic, which supporters say shows how government spending can help.
With the deadline looming, the White House is starting to ramp up pressure on Republicans.
The central bank said it’s making progress toward its goals of averaging 2 percent inflation over time and reaching maximum employment.
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.