As western states battle record-breaking heat waves, climate activists are calling on the Biden administration and congressional Democrats to pass an infrastructure bill that includes major investments in green energy, including a fully funded Civilian Climate Corps.
I don’t want to lose my day job.
Parenting advice on twins, coming out, and learning a new language.
Forget the inflation scolds. Ignore the small-business Scrooges. There’s a very different story in the data.
Waiting to trace the exact lines of causation misses the point.
It’s probably legal, but it shouldn’t be.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson said incentives to get people vaccinated aren’t working.
Hispanic communities are among those most eager to get Covid shots, but officials have struggled to address longstanding barriers to care.
Only about 46 percent of the U.S. population is vaccinated, and the number of doses administered has fallen by almost 300,000 per day since June 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The emergency allowed Gov. Andrew Cuomo to impose hundreds of executive orders with the force of law.
The red states’ moves potentially set up court fights over who has the power to police campus health just as schools prepare to reopen for in-person instruction.
It’s actually caused me to pass out from anxiety.
I’m not sure how to live with it in my home.
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.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
In the news today: The Trump Organization has a final chance to avoid having charges filed against it for the company’s shady financial dealings. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell attempts to take infrastructure hostage. And speaking of McConnell, we also learn—confirm—that he put keeping control of the Senate over any concern about the country. Toyota says it isn’t going to stop giving money to insurrectionist Republican lawmakers.
Former attorney general gets caught trying to rewrite his own history when it comes to Trump’s election lies.
Having difficulty talking to your children about the rising anti-Asian violence across the country? Well, Sesame Street has got you covered. Amid the bullying many Asian American children are facing, Sesame Street has created content to help parents and children talk about why it’s wrong to make comments on one’s appearance. Additionally, the video featuring a child who experiences bullying also reminds children that they should be proud of what they look like.
Sandra Weyer of Pennsylvania reportedly went to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 on a bus organized by GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano’s campaign.
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed into law a sweeping bill expanding the rights of Colorado’s farmworkers, including minimum wage and overtime benefits. For nearly a century now, many farmworkers have been intentionally excluded from basic protections. This legislation now begins to correct this injustice for farmworkers in the state.
Trump and the Joint Chiefs of Staff leader went at each other in a tense meeting amid Black Lives Matter marches, according to excerpts from a WSJ writer’s book.
This story was originally published at Prism.
by Ahmed Al Tamimi
Over the past four years, President Donald Trump and his administration have worked tirelessly to dismantle the Refugee Act, a 40-year-old federal program that provided systematic and comprehensive resettlement provisions.
BuzzFeed News has obtained an as-of-yet unpublished inspector general report finding that an immigrant who had been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody for more than a year died of a heart attack when the privately operated facility he had been held at failed to get him to a hospital for proper medical attention. Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi, is operated by private prison profiteer CoreCivic.
The House speaker is considering tapping a Republican to join her appointees to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The former president also falsely claimed that the Senate Republican leader has not been able to stop Democrats from passing legislation.
