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Help! I Caught My Son in a Compromising Position With a Vacuum Cleaner.
I don’t know what to say to him.
Tax the rich? Executives predict Biden’s big plans will flop
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.
Biden pressed to send clear message on economy as warning signs flash
The White House’s reaction to unexpected jobs and price data has opened the administration up to GOP attacks.
Lockdown mentality still holding the economy back, banking official says
Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says things should get better as people overcome fears related to the pandemic.
Mark Carney on Canada’s economic growth: ‘It’s going to take more than one budget’
“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.
How the Trudeau government plans to meet its climate goals
Chrystia Freeland uses Budget 2021 to reveal Canada’s new emissions target.
Republicans Oppose Kristen Clarke for Top Civil Rights Job at DOJ in Latest Attack on Voting Rights
Republican senators in Washington are attempting to block Kristen Clarke, a prominent voting rights advocate, from a top Justice Department position. The Senate Judiciary Committee has deadlocked on an 11-11 vote on whether to move Clarke’s nomination for assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to the Senate floor for a full vote.
News Roundup: Supreme Court again threatens abortion rights; new program for parents begins in July
In the news today: The Supreme Court takes up a case that it may use to sharply curtail abortion rights. The Biden administration announces monthly relief checks to American parents will begin in July. After losing the November election, Trump lashed out by demanding large-scale withdrawals of U.S. troops abroad.
Here’s some of what you may have missed:
• Supreme Court takes up Mississippi abortion law, setting the stage to overturn Roe v. Wade
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LGBTQ students harassed in their own home in ‘horrific’ incident at Bucknell University
A university in Pennsylvania announced an investigation into a “horrific” incident in which LGBTQ students were harassed after at least 15 to 20 male students tried to storm into the Tower House, a Fran’s House affinity house for the LGBTQ community at Bucknell University, university officials said. Students were left traumatized with their “sense of place and security” threatened and little to no support from public safety officials.
Supreme Court pulls Biden into an abortion fight he didn’t want
By placing the issue front and center, the high court immediately forces his administration to reconsider its measured strategy.
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who joined GOP just ahead of loss in infamous 1991 race, dies
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, a conservative Democrat who joined the Republican Party months before he lost re-election in the infamous 1991 “Race from Hell,” died Monday at the age of 77. Roemer’s third-place showing in that year’s all-party primary led to a general election duel between the ultimately victorious Democrat Edwin Edwards, whom Roemer had unseated in 1987, and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Activists: ‘Did it really require eight police officers to subdue this barefoot homeless man?’
A San Diego resident caught police on camera pummeling a man she identified as homeless after police said he urinated in public. Nicole Bansal told the San Diego Union-Tribune she was driving when she saw police vehicles racing past her, and she started recording on her cell phone when she recognized the man officers were targeting Wednesday morning in La Jolla. “There was no movement made to de-escalate,” Bansal said.
What You Need To Know About The Supreme Court’s New Abortion Rights Case
The court, which now has a solid majority of conservative justices, could decide to wipe out abortion access in nearly half of U.S. states.
Biden admin pledges probe after report of unaccompanied kids being left stranded in buses overnight
Following a shocking NBC News report last week that a number of unaccompanied migrant children were stranded in vans overnight—one child reportedly for several days—while waiting to be transferred to sponsors, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra has pledged an investigation into the allegations, The Washington Post reports.
“This is completely unacceptable,” Becerra said in the report.
Mask controversy spurs CDC to rethink its pandemic response
The changes include creating a clear reporting chain from the new director of the agency’s vaccine task force up to Rochelle Walensky.
Joe Biden Expresses Support For Cease-Fire In Call With Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
A majority of Democrats in the Senate recently urged the president to call for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
Joe Biden Releases 2020 Tax Returns
Although it has long been tradition for presidents to make their tax returns public, former President Donald Trump refused to do so.
American Muslim Groups Boycott White House Event As Biden Refuses To Call For Cease-Fire
The president has refused to echo the international community’s push for a cease-fire in Gaza, where hundreds of people, mostly Palestinians, have been killed.
Help! My Daughter Is Determined to Move Out Even if She Ends Up Homeless.
She emphasized that we should not provide financial support or allow her to move back in, even if she later asks.
CDC’s second-in-command Anne Schuchat to step down
Her decision reportedly comes after clashes with agency director Rochelle Walensky.
The GOP Governors Kicking People Off Unemployment Are Doing a Crap Job Vaccinating Their States
And that’s not the only reason their push to get people back to work is premature.
U.S. will send 20M more vaccine doses overseas
The White House did not announce where the doses will be shipped.
Fox News’ Juan Williams: GOP’s Loyalty To Trump Defies Political Reality
A dissenting voice of the right-wing network warned Republicans of their “losing bet” on the disgraced former president.
I’ve Been Having Hot Lockdown Sex With My Boyfriend and His Brother. Now I Don’t Want to Stop.
Now I don’t want it to end.
Supreme Court will hear direct challenge to Roe v. Wade
The court’s new conservative majority will have an opportunity to reconsider the landmark decision legalizing abortion nationwide.
Gaza Journalist: Israel Is Deliberately Targeting the Media by Bombing AP & Al Jazeera Offices
We speak with Palestinian reporter Youmna al-Sayed, who was among the journalists who had to flee for their lives when Israel bombed and leveled a 12-story Gaza building that housed the offices of media organizations including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Israel has claimed, without evidence, that the building was being used by Hamas operatives, but al-Sayed says it’s part of a pattern of Israeli attacks on media. “This is no coincidence,” she says.
“Terror from the Skies”: UNRWA Condemns Israeli Bombing of Gaza Refugee Camp, Killing Family of 10
Matthias Schmale, director of UNRWA operations in Gaza, says civilians in the besieged territory are facing “terror from the skies” amid Israel’s bombardment, which has already killed nearly 200 people. “The price the civilian population is paying for this is unacceptable. This has to stop. This is terror on a civilian population.
Israel Is Trying to Destroy Us: Gaza Father & Writer Speaks Out as Palestinian Death Toll Nears 200
Israel’s assault on Gaza has entered its second week, as Israel killed at least 42 Palestinians in Gaza Sunday in the deadliest day so far when it bombarded the besieged area with airstrikes, artillery fire and gunboat shelling. Israel has killed nearly 200 Palestinians, including 58 children and 34 women, and destroyed over 500 homes in Gaza, leaving 40,000 Palestinians homeless. Israel also leveled a 12-story building housing the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.