In the news today: The Keystone XL pipeline project is dead, for now. As the Senate releases a report on the Jan. 6 insurrection so focused on avoiding Republican ire as to be useless, a Trump-appointed inspector general announces that a violent push to clear Lafayette Park in the very moments before Trump announced he’d be taking a walk there was actually just a huuuuuuuuge coincidence.
Reagan National University in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is no longer an accredited university. To anyone with half an education, this is no surprise. The only reason the school had received accreditation in the first place was because under previous Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the dubious Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools (ACICS) was resurrected to give it the distinction.
It’s easy for Democrats to become frustrated at the “look at me” antics of Joe Manchin, prima donna senator from West Virginia, as he forces the Biden administration to indulge in a pointless exercise of jumping through hoops for Senate Republicans in hopes of achieving some imaginary bipartisan agreement on the president’s infrastructure bill.
On the streets of American cities, Jews are being attacked simply for being Jewish. In my hometown of New York City—home to over 1 million Jews—a man named Joseph Borgen was set upon by a group who “punched, kicked and pepper-sprayed him while shouting antisemitic slurs.” One man was arrested and faces charges for having committed second-degree assault as a hate crime, along with first-degree gang assault.
A late-breaking campaign controversy, explained.
A leading immigrant rights advocacy group has filed a complaint on behalf of two women alleging unsafe, dangerous conditions while in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an Indiana facility. They cite crowded conditions amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, guards who won’t wear masks, and insufficient soap to keep themselves safe. One of the women was tested for the virus while detained, but said that officials wouldn’t give her the result.
Jeff Bezos founded his spaceflight company two decades ago, at the turn of the millennium. You may not have known that, because Blue Origin spent years developing its rocket technology in secret. But by now you’ve probably heard, because Bezos wants everyone to know: Blue Origin is sending passengers to space, and he’s going on the inaugural trip himself.
The Interior Department’s inspector general said protesters in the square were pushed out of the area to allow a contractor to install fencing.
In an ad, Lucas Kunce called out Republican Mark McCloskey, who notoriously pointed a gun at racial justice protesters walking by his mansion last year.
Democrats did not like the Fifteenth Amendment.In the late 1860s, as Congress debated the proposal to bar disenfranchisement on the basis of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” Democratic senators and representatives charged Republicans with imposing a vile despotism on the southern states by enfranchising Black men.
This is the second time lawmakers have asked the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to approve the name changes. Its previous request, in 1991, failed.
President Joe Biden will announce the plan tomorrow ahead of the G-7 meeting in the United Kingdom.
I want us to travel and have more free time. She’s worried about looking like a gold digger.
They’re exploring whether his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud amounted to professional misconduct.
Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink are confused. As neuroscientists, they know that the brain must be flexible but not too flexible. It must rewire itself in the face of new experiences, but must also consistently represent the features of the external world. How? The relatively simple explanation found in neuroscience textbooks is that specific groups of neurons reliably fire when their owner smells a rose, sees a sunset, or hears a bell.
This article contains mild spoilers for the first two episodes of Loki.For 13 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe built up the Infinity Stones as objects of grand power, capable of manipulating all existence when united. In Avengers: Infinity War, they turned half of the cosmos to dust; in Avengers: Endgame, the surviving heroes chased them down across time. In Loki, the Disney+ series released today, they’re nothing more than colorful paperweights.
A woman claiming to be Maria Fernanda from Univision and said she voted for Harris has prompted a White House investigation.
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.
The Biden administration has vowed to take a compassionate approach to migrants and asylum seekers who are fleeing violence, poverty and persecution, but a damning new investigation reveals the mistreatment of children upon their arrival to the border. The report found more than 80 children in government-funded shelters were turned over to local law enforcement when they engaged in behavior common for kids, especially those who have been through trauma.
A major exposé by ProPublica has revealed how U.S. billionaires pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth, or sometimes even nothing. Private tax records of some of the country’s top billionaires show that between 2014 and 2018 the wealthiest 25 Americans saw their collective wealth jump by more than $400 billion, but they paid just over $13 billion in federal income taxes — amounting to a tax rate of just 3.4%.
Parenting advice on sudden SAHMs, accidental daycares, and coerced guardians.
I found a resolution many choose but few acknowledge.
The company’s last publicity stunt—the “Voltswagen” name change fiasco—went so badly it sparked an SEC investigation.
He says he just can’t afford to help more.
She’s delusional, but it’s straining my relationship with my son.
A growing movement wants to scrap bus and subway fares. That’s not what riders need most.
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.
“I’m here to tell you that the United States will not let you stand alone,” Tammy Duckworth said.
