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When the psychologist Michael Reichert became a father to sons, he aimed to avoid putting his boys into narrow masculine boxes, an effort that he details in his book, How to Raise a Boy. Still, he sometimes slipped. For example, in a 2019 Atlantic interview, Reichert recalled forcing his young son to face off against bullies rather than offering him a refuge.
The agency also cleared 10 million doses for use.
Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German colonizers killed tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas officially described the massacre as genocide and outlined an offer of more than $1.34 billion in development aid to the Namibian government.
The U.S. State Department is pushing to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Britain, where Biden is now meeting with leaders during the G7 summit. A U.K. judge blocked Assange’s extradition in January, citing serious mental health concerns. Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if brought to the U.S., where he was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act related to the publication of classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes.
As world leaders gather for the first in-person G7 summit in two years, talks are set to focus heavily on ending the pandemic and the climate crisis, and climate activists are calling on them for more immediate action. “It’s not just one crisis,” says Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want and spokesperson for the COP26 Climate Coalition.
The scandal was absurd, but the problems are broader than that.
Janet Woodcock did not release a statement with the approval — noteworthy considering it was the first new Alzheimer’s drug in nearly two decades.
A late-breaking campaign controversy, explained.
I want us to travel and have more free time. She’s worried about looking like a gold digger.
President Joe Biden will announce the plan tomorrow ahead of the G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom.
The FDA’s decision to approve the drug, siding with industry and patient advocates, raises new questions about whether it is lowering its burden of proof for drugmakers.
Less than a quarter of Black Americans have received their first Covid-19 shot. That’s less than other racial and ethnic groups tracked by the CDC.
Parenting advice on sudden SAHMs, accidental daycares, and coerced guardians.
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.
Some analysts suggested that the administration is essentially admitting that its proposed surge in federal spending won’t actually boost the economy much at all.
A new film called “Takeover” follows the 12 historic hours on July 14, 1970, when members of the Young Lords Party took over the rundown Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx in New York City. The Young Lords were a radical group founded by Puerto Ricans modeled on the Black Panther Party. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, a co-founder of the Young Lords, helped organize the action.
As Boris Johnson prepares to host Joe Biden and the leaders of the world’s other G7 democracies this weekend, Britain appears to have recovered something of its old self. After years of stasis, slump, and division culminating in last year’s catastrophic COVID-19 response, the country can legitimately count itself in a vanguard of powers leading the globe out of the pandemic.
In the news today: A Trump-appointed inspector general’s claims that the gassing of peaceful protesters had nothing to do with a planned Trump publicity stunt is at odds with known facts. Investigations into the Jan. 6 insurrection continue, despite Republican attempts at stonewalling. The Arizona “audit” gets challenged by real experts who say they can produce a more accurate count without ever leaving their homes.
Former Rep. Jim Renacci, who was the 2018 Republican nominee for Senate, announced Wednesday that he would challenge Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for renomination.
Renacci has been a loud DeWine critic for well over a year, but he intensified his attacks in 2020 over the governor’s measures to combat the pandemic.
Alan Hostetter, a police chief turned yogi, was indicted along with Three Percenter extremists in a conspiracy to attack the Capitol.
Prosecutors sought records on a dozen people connected to two lawmakers, including Rep. Adam Schiff, to hunt those who leaked classified information.
In many parts of the country, warmer weather tends to bring rain and/or storms—something you may be enjoying from a dry, safe place even as you read this.
But as ever, GOP lawmakers in legislatures across the country continue to cast ominous clouds over things like equality, voting rights, and basic decency.
That’s right—you’ve been caught in a Statehouse Action squall.
So now that we have a president who doesn’t pose an existential threat to NATO, respects climate change accords, takes worldwide pandemics seriously and won’t flatter dictators, threaten to nuke hurricanes, or otherwise make the world’s foremost democracy look like King Kong on a four-year Jägermeister-and-bath-salts bender, the rest of the world likes us better.
Go figure.
The nonprofit group tasked by a federal court with connecting asylum-seeking parents and children ripped apart at the southern border by the previous administration with free mental health services said it has reached over 1,000 families and counting, NBC News reports.
Due to the pandemic, Seneca Family of Agencies has had to do many searches virtually.
“It wasn’t like driving a Ferrari. For someone who’s not great at parking, I wouldn’t recommend it.
One Twitter user said: “Good to be reminded about how much this guy sucks.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
The FDA’s independent vaccine advisory committee grappled with how to ensure the safety of Covid shots in children as disease caseloads continue to dwindle in the U.S.