Biden Expands Vaccine Push With Mandates For Private Sector
Large companies will have to require workers to either get vaccinated or show a negative COVID-19 test result at least weekly.
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What It Was Like to Grow Up Muslim in America After 9/11
“You had 11-, 12-year-olds being like, ‘Aymann, what is jihad? And why does your family want to kill my family?
Justice Department Announces Legal Action Against Texas Abortion Ban
Attorney General Merrick Garland said he will pursue legal action against one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the U.S.
A Diamond Necklace Is Tearing My Family Apart
My granddaughters are no longer speaking to each other.
Biden expands vaccine requirements in bid to rein in Covid
The six-part plan includes an order that all executive branch federal workers get vaccinated.
Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations
The plan — developed by DHHS — largely backs Democrats’ ongoing efforts to lower drug prices.
The California Recall Could Be a Road Map for Democrats
California Governor Gavin Newsom is confronting the toughest challenge Democrats may face in next year’s midterm election—and guiding his party toward a possible solution as the Republican-driven recall against him enters its final days.One key reason the president’s party historically fares so poorly in midterm elections is that its supporters turn out at lower rates than voters of the party not in the White House.
“Humane”: Yale Historian Samuel Moyn on “How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War”
In his new book, Yale historian Samuel Moyn explores whether the push to make U.S. wars more “humane” by banning torture and limiting civilian casualties has helped fuel more military interventions around the world. He looks in detail at the role of President Obama in expanding the use of drones even as he received the Nobel Peace Prize. “What happened after 2001 is that, in the midst of an extremely brutal war on terror, a new kind of war emerged.
“Turning Point”: Legacy of the U.S. Response to 9/11 Is Terror, Domestic Surveillance & Drones
As this week marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., we look at a new five-part documentary series on Netflix about the attacks and the response from the United States, both at home and abroad. “Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror” features a wide range of interviews with survivors of the attacks, U.S.
Are Democrats About to Repeat One of Obamacare’s Big Mistakes?
Doing a solid for voters who won’t notice you helped them for years.
Help! I Saw My Son and His Boyfriend Hitting Each Other. Should I Intervene?
My husband thinks it’s just boys being boys. I’m not so sure.
Ask a Teacher: My Daughter Has No Friends in Her Class—Again
Teacher advice on class assignments, food insecurity, and boredom at school.
My Uncle Has Commandeered One of My Family’s Beach Houses
We could use the one next door, but his family ruins the experience.
The Screens in Cars Are Becoming a Problem
“Infotainment” systems are increasingly flashy and distracting—and the auto industry is just getting started.
Why the Left Is Trying to Take Down the Most Progressive Fed Chair in 40 Years
The lefty case against Jerome Powell almost makes sense. Almost.
FDA nears day of reckoning on e-cigarettes
The agency is reviewing millions of applications from e-cigarette makers, and must decide by Sept. 9 whether their products are “appropriate for the protection of public health.
Calls grow for FDA to speed authorization of kid Covid-19 vaccines
Politicians have joined anxious parents and some public health groups in calling on federal regulators to accelerate their process for authorizing shots for the youngest Americans.
I’ve Had Lots of Sex Through My 20s. I Just Hit My First Big Consequence—and I’m Weirdly Devastated.
This caught me by surprise.
Help! My Ex-Stepdaughter Has an Outrageous Demand After Leaving Me Out of Her Wedding.
I don’t know who this woman is now.
Biden hails ‘strong’ economic recovery despite disappointing jobs numbers
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Powell walks high wire as Fed plans to ease support for Biden’s economy
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
U.S. jobless claims near pandemic low as economy strengthens
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
House Dem campaign chief warns the majority at risk without message reboot
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Biden’s economic gains come with newer worries about the future
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
Biden Ousts 18 Trump Military Academy Board Appointees
Among those asked to resign or face termination include Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and H.R. McMaster.
News Roundup: Idaho hospitals ration care; Republicans prepare a new election hoax
In the news today: In scenes reminiscent of the pandemic’s first, once-worst months, overflowing Idaho hospitals are now triggering the rationing of emergency care. The extent of U.S. tax-dodging by the rich continues to be astonishing—and that tax dodging is directly damaging our schools, our health care, and other national priorities.
In landmark ruling, Mexican Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion
If the five rabid ideologues on the U.S. Supreme Court who last week sanctioned the Texas law prohibiting women from terminating an unwanted pregnancy after six weeks were capable of shame, this might embarrass them.
Lawsuit alleges high-profile GOP operative is child sex trafficking ‘ringmaster’
Early in August, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Minnesota announced the arrest of 30-year-old Anton “Tony” Lazzaro. Lazzaro is charged with multiple counts of sex trafficking with at least six minor victims. A couple of days later, a 19-year-old Minnesota woman, Gisela Castro Medina, was arrested in Florida and named Lazzaro’s co-defendant in the case.
Florida councilman who called pandemic ‘lie’ hospitalized with COVID-19
Anotha one (cue the DJ Khaled clip). Yet another COVID-19 denier has been hospitalized with the novel coronavirus. According to The Daytona Beach News-Journal, a Florida council member who promoted conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and mocked disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is hospitalized after contracting the virus.
The last Volusia County meeting attended by Fred Lowry, the COVID-infected council member in question, was August 17.