Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, whose service from 1979 to 2015 made him the Wolverine State’s longest-serving senator, died Thursday at the age of 87. Levin, who twice led the Armed Services Committee, was an influential figure during his time on Capitol Hill, and he played an integral role in passing the 2010 bill that ended the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Young adults and Gen Z close to Republicans are taking to TikTok to expose them. First former White House aide Kellyanne Conway’s daughter went viral for sharing suspicions that her mom and others contracted COVID-19; now 20-year-old Roxanne Luckey, sister to Florida Congressman’s Matt Gaetz’s fiance Ginger Luckey, has taken to the platform to share her thoughts.
The former White House chief of staff is working on strategy at Bedminister with the man he calls “the president.
The Fight for $15 kicked off in November 2012, with a relatively small—yet also historically large—group of New York City fast food workers making what seemed an audacious demand: $15 an hour minimum pay and a union. The latter goal hasn’t advanced much since then, but $15? That has become solidly mainstream, and has brought big wins. A new report from the National Employment Law Project quantifies just how big.
The federal minimum wage remains just $7.
The turmoil casts even more doubt on the conclusions of what backers describe as a “forensic audit” but what experts and critics say is a deeply flawed, partisan process.
The GOP congressman said he mistakenly put the unloaded handgun in his carry-on rather than his checked bag.
The California rules could be a case of consumers clearly paying a price for their beliefs.
The smell is so bad my child can’t play outside.
Why mental health needs to be prioritized for athletes.
Health experts and local leaders in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee and Washington state told POLITICO they expect the latest recommendations will be brushed off by a crisis-weary public.
In the final episode of The Pursuit of Love, Linda Radlett (played by Lily James), the dazzlingly romantic and impractical heroine of Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel, is taken shopping by a formidable French aristocrat. Linda parades a series of outfits, blowing kisses and laughing, then feigns abashed surprise when Fabrice (Assaad Bouab), her new lover, declares that they’ll take it all.
For years, Sandra Emry, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, has been studying the potential impact of future heat waves on rockweed, a species of brown alga that provides a habitat for marine life on both coasts of North America.
Does my name belong to me? Does my face? What about my life? My story? Why is my name used to refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions again and again because others continue to profit off my identity, and my trauma, without my consent. Most recently, there is the film Stillwater, directed by Tom McCarthy and starring Matt Damon and Abigail Breslin, which was, in McCarthy’s words, “directly inspired by the Amanda Knox saga.
The author standing with a tank by Havana’s Malecon in 1988 (Courtesy of Jorge Felipe-Gonzalez)
Every Thursday at 5 p.m., my grandmother would go into her bedroom in Havana, lock the door, and tune her Soviet-made radio to Radio Martí, a Miami-based station run by Cuban exiles who had fled Fidel Castro’s revolution. She always set the volume barely above a whisper. “Walls have ears,” she would say.
The boring-Congress theory of getting things done.
He could use the money. But so could I.
The GOP governor is urging people to get vaccinated as Florida’s Covid infections spike. But some in DeSantis’ base are openly questioning him.
California, as well as much of the rest of the country, is on the brink of a fourth surge driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.
President Joe Biden is due to issue a directive Thursday requiring some 2 million federal employees to attest they’ve received the shot or submit to weekly testing.
I’m not sure of protocol here.
I get that I need to contribute to the finances, but this feels unfair.
Teacher advice on past abuse, summer enrichment, and kindergarten teachers.
I have some questions.
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
The growth is another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.
A new wave of cases followed by the looming expiration of enhanced jobless benefits, a ban on evictions and other rescue programs is sparking concern among lawmakers and economists.
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
Senate Democrats have announced that they have joined with 17 Republicans to vote in favor of taking up a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal. The plan includes new spending on climate and environment measures, but critics say it falls far short of what is needed. Democrats say they hope to include additional climate measures in a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that could advance without being blocked by a Republican filibuster if it is backed by all 50 Democrats.
