The award-winning documentary “Fly So Far” looks at the criminalization of abortion in El Salvador through the incredible story of Teodora Vásquez, a woman who in 2008 was sentenced to 30 years in prison after she had a stillbirth at nine months pregnant. Vásquez was released in 2018 after more than a decade behind bars.
The Supreme Court is set to review a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that intends to challenge Roe v. Wade, raising concern for advocates about how reproductive rights can be preserved without the landmark ruling.
We speak with one of the Texas Democrats who has fled the state to block the Republican-dominated Legislature from passing new voter restrictions in the battleground state, which already has some of the toughest voting rules in the country. Without the Democratic lawmakers, the Texas House won’t have enough members present to reach a quorum.
Parenting advice on family size, race, and miscarriage.
I’m making half of my previous salary, and I’m depressed and embarrassed.
They don’t have to act like Republicans to do it.
Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami—who hasn’t been promised a tunnel?
She’s always broke a few days into the month.
Critics say the company drives out grocery stores and exacerbates the problem of food deserts.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that these vaccines are going to get full approval because of the extraordinary amount of positive data,” he said.
Richard Branson was hungover on the day the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon in 1969. He had turned 19 two days earlier and had celebrated accordingly. But he was “gripped” as he watched Neil Armstrong on his family’s little black-and-white television, he later wrote in a memoir. He knew then—he was “instantly convinced”—that someday he would go to space himself.
He basically treats her like a second girlfriend.
Parenting advice on breastfeeding, fat phobia, and child development.
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
In the news today: Texas Democrats left the state today to deny Republicans a legislative quorum after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called another special session to push through new restrictions on voting. Climate change is here, and the Pacific Northwest is instituting emergency provisions to protect farm workers from record heat.
You might remember how back in 2019, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) infamously shut down a free hotline for detained people seeking legal help after it was featured in an episode of the Emmy-winning Netflix series, Orange Is the New Black? The hotline had been in service for years and fielded thousands of calls monthly, but within two weeks of the season’s premiere, ICE shut it down.
The running joke of the Trump presidency—okay, one of the running jokes—was the constant pronouncements of an upcoming “infrastructure week” or that some kind of infrastructure deal was in the offing. Nothing. Ever. Happened.
“I think that what people saw with their own eyes reflects a different reality,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said.
Massive food bank lines became some of the most iconic and disturbing images of the COVID-19 economy. Now, unemployment is dropping and the Biden administration has increased food aid—but advocates are warning that hunger remains a problem.
“Hunger is fading back as an unseen issue,” a spokesperson for the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank told the San Francisco Chronicle. “We’ve seen a drop-off in volunteer numbers.
Allen Weisselberg has been indicted in what prosecutors called a 15-year scheme to defraud tax authorities.
He’s no longer in office but that doesn’t stop former President Donald Trump from inciting violence on people of color and Democrats. In an interview Sunday with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo Trump attempted to shift responsibility of the Jan. 6 insurrection on Democrats, completely changing the narrative of the deadly Capitol riots.
Montana GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte isn’t interested in helping combat climate change, but wants federal assistance to deal with its worsening impacts.
Without a quorum, the state’s GOP can’t move forward with any of its proposals during the special legislative session.
The internal deliberations have stretched on for months as health officials watch for signs of waning immunity among high-risk groups.
I feel she will lose out on lots of opportunities in life if she won’t be near men behaving badly.
About 100 suspected cases of GBS — among 12.8 million people who have gotten the J&J shot — have been identified in the federal government’s database.
“For Trump, the goal is almost entirely the media attention,” Wolff told a reporter. “Good, bad, indifferent, doesn’t matter.
