Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped bring the chamber under Democratic control, used his first speech on the floor of the Senate this week to assail Republican efforts to restrict voting rights.
Parenting advice on racialized bullying, phone families, and nagging dads.
In Italy, one year after this all started, it happened.
Former NBA player Shawn Bradley was paralyzed after he was struck by a car.
A metaphor if you were looking for one.
Going back to in-person learning—with a twist.
In the 1990s, the company went bankrupt, and the entire comic book industry was in a tailspin.
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
A new Futuro Media podcast, “Suave,” tells the story of one person’s journey to freedom after receiving a life sentence without parole at the age of 17. David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez met journalist Maria Hinojosa in 1993 during a talk at the prison in Pennsylvania where he was serving a sentence for first-degree homicide. For years, Gonzalez and Hinojosa stayed in touch through letters, visits and phone calls that Hinojosa recorded.
Stunt riding in Iraq, downhill skiing in Switzerland, a giant stuffed penguin in New York, drones over Dublin, a huge sand portrait in England, an unfinished border wall in Texas, green slime in California, a green river in Chicago, and much more.
Good news: You’ve made it through another day. Here’s some of what you might have missed.
• Declassified report shows that Republican claims about election interference by China were lies
• Texas man arrested on weapons charge near vice president’s mansion in Washington, D.C.
The DKonversation: Something to talk about
Today’s questions:
Have you been vaccinated?
If not, what’s your plan?
Last weekend the U.S. crossed an important threshold: 100 million doses of vaccine administered. As a sign of hope, media captions and chyrons were switched from showing the death rate to the vaccination rate.
If you’re like me, you were continually frustrated by Donald Trump’s baffling ability to avoid real consequences for his serial perfidy over the past four (erm, 74) years, and you responded to this outrage by curling up into the fetal position, crawling into a giant bag of Kirkland Signature Rice Crackers, and treating it like some sort of artificial space placenta. If you’re not like me, you still probably hated all that unpunished lawbreaking.
Confession time.
I … [[deep breath]] am a hoarder.
I hoard web browser tabs.
I open something I mean to read or use for research, and four times out of five it just … sits. Unused. Unread.
In the Chrome window I’m using to write this week’s missive, I have 38 tabs open.
I’m not proud.
It’s time to admit that I have a problem.
So I’ve decided: Out with them.
The House Republican went on a rant against Chinese communism during a hearing about surging violence against Asian Americans.
The number of people hospitalized with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States has been plummeting since early January. Until about three weeks ago, hospitalizations in Michigan were following the same pattern: More people with COVID-19 were leaving the hospital than were being admitted. But in the past few weeks, data from the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services have shown that hospitalizations have risen by 45 percent from the state’s recent low on February 25.
Is it sinking in for Republicans yet just how much they’ve fucked up? In the eyes of millions of Americans, they’re now the party of COVID-19, election theft, voter suppression, sedition, and smaller checks for fewer people.
“Masks are protective,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said before informing the senator that COVID-19 can still pose threats to those already infected or vaccinated.
The announcement comes after the Supreme Court agreed to review the legality of the Trump policy change.
“I didn’t have any hesitation signing up to get it, but I had extreme hesitation telling anybody about it.
Twitter users were quick to correct Rep. Chip Roy, who uttered the disturbing line during a hearing about violence against Asian Americans.
“I don’t think that would make sense for Floridians,” the Florida governor says.
This week marks one year since Murphy ordered the shuttering of all school buildings in New Jersey due to the spread of the coronavirus.
The Democratic governor has two things going for him: A decline in the infection rate and an increase in vaccinations.
“Dear Sarah,” read the note left on the makeshift memorial, “we are so sorry. You did nothing wrong.” It was just after 5 p.m., an hour from sunset, on March 13 and women were already beginning to gather at the park in Clapham, South London, to remember Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old woman kidnapped from the capital’s streets on March 3. Her body was found a week later in a woodland 50 miles away, in a builder’s bag, and had to be identified from dental records.
If certain corners of the French internet are anything to go by, COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe, those who refuse them risk becoming “second-class citizens,” and the country has turned into a “health dictatorship.” That such claims have gained currency in France—home to Louis Pasteur, a robust welfare state, and a universal-health-care system—would have been far-fetched 25 years ago.