Restaurants are back, baby! Head over to that reopened neighborhood joint, and snag a table with some friends you haven’t seen in a year. Overpriced cocktails have never sounded so good. Sit on the patio, and take in late May for all it’s worth. Oh, the waiter’s coming over; have you decided on drinks yet? Sorry, what’s that? I can’t hear you.
He rode a roller coaster! He ate a burger for breakfast! His rival is under investigation!
He rode a roller coaster! He ate a burger for breakfast! His rival is under investigation!
Republican leaders in both the House and Senate now oppose a plan to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In North Carolina, the Pasquotank County District Attorney’s Office has found the April 21 police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., a 42-year-old Black father, in Elizabeth City was justified. Meanwhile, Andrew Brown Jr.’s family and their attorneys have said body-camera and dashcam videos of his killing show it was an “execution” and that he was not a threat. Andrew Brown Jr.
As Israel’s deadly attack on Gaza continues, we speak with Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who says Israel’s bombing campaign is purposely wiping out entire families.
The Israeli bombing campaign of Gaza has killed at least 222 Palestinians, including 63 children, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects growing international calls for a ceasefire. The Norwegian Refugee Council has revealed 11 of the children killed in Gaza were taking part in a program to help them deal with trauma from growing up in the besieged enclave. At least six residents of Gaza died in Israeli strikes overnight, including the radio journalist Yousef Abu Hussein.
Parenting advice on broodiness, boundaries, and biphobia.
I tried to warn him, but his desire to get out of debt overrode his judgment.
I tried to warn him, but his desire to get out of debt overrode his judgment.
And that’s not the only reason their push to get people back to work is premature.
She says I “owe” her, since we’re family.
Checking in on the New York City mayoral race—and the regrettable candidates leading it.
By placing the issue front and center, the high court immediately forces his administration to reconsider its measured strategy.
The changes include creating a clear reporting chain from the new director of the agency’s vaccine task force up to Rochelle Walensky.
Her decision reportedly comes after clashes with agency director Rochelle Walensky.
The White House did not announce where the doses will be shipped.
Corporate executives and lobbyists say they are confident they can kill almost all of these tax hikes by pressuring moderate Democrats in the House and Senate.
The White House’s reaction to unexpected jobs and price data has opened the administration up to GOP attacks.
Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says things should get better as people overcome fears related to the pandemic.
“There were elements of growth in the balance from what I can see and understand,” Carney said in a long response that didn’t directly answer the question.
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
“We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity,” the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James said.
In the news today: More fallout from the Trump administration, this time with revelations that Trump’s Department of Justice sought to expose the identity of a satirist who had earned the ire of Trump ally Rep. Devin Nunes. That administration’s attempts to sabotage immigrant rights also appears worse than we had guessed. Attempts to defend the current hard-right Supreme Court as nonpartisan are looking increasingly “deluded.
The Oregon fund for undocumented workers excluded from federal pandemic relief due to their legal status has distributed more than $60 million in survival checks to over 37,000 people in the state, The Oregonian reports. Advocates said money has gone to excluded workers in nearly every county, the majority of them workers in either agriculture or food processing.
Donald Trump’s Space Force idea always seemed like a grade-school concept fueled by prepubescent boys’ fantasies featuring Buzz Lightyear and coloring book ideas about both space travel and the military. No doubt that’s why it’s been the source of so much unintentional hilarity since Trump signed off on creating it, including its painfully obvious Star Trek-derived logo.
The Palestinian American congresswoman said the president must do more to protect civilians. At least 218 Palestinians have died so far in Israeli attacks.
As the pandemic continues, Republicans across the country are eager to keep distracting the public from the party’s failures over the past year and a half. As Daily Kos has covered, we know state-level Republicans have pushed anti-trans legislation that rests on hysteria and misinformation, ranging from banning trans girls from participating on girls’ sports teams to making it a felony for physicians to prescribe gender-affirming health care to transgender youth.
Anjanette Young’s home was raided by Chicago police in February 2019. Young, a 50-year-old social worker, had just gotten home from work and was changing out of her work clothes, getting ready to decompress from the day and watch television. Just then, police barged into her home, handcuffed her, and left her to stand there, naked, for 10 minutes.
