Updated at 5:57 p.m. on March 31, 2020.One year ago, around the end of March, Carly Taylor received a positive result for two tests in two consecutive weeks. The first was a test for the new coronavirus. The second was a pregnancy test.Her daughter, Ophelia, arrived on December 22, within days of the public debut of the first COVID-19 vaccines in the United States.
He assures me he still loves me and doesn’t want to leave me.
The watchdog recommended the steps as part of its call for a sweeping overhaul of federal data on Covid-19.
The documents also detail how senior White House officials tried to warn then-President Donald Trump of the danger of Covid-19 last March.
We get an update on political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Sundiata Acoli, who contracted COVID-19 but have yet to be released. Acoli is a former member of the Black Panther Party who is now 84 years old and has been in prison in New Jersey for nearly half a century, even though he has been eligible for parole for almost three decades. He was denied parole again in February. His crime involved the killing of a state trooper.
A New York judge has ordered the state to provide COVID-19 vaccines to all incarcerated people, saying that officials “irrationally distinguished between incarcerated people and people living in every other type of adult congregate facility, at great risk to incarcerated people’s lives during this pandemic.
On Trans Day of Visibility, we look at the wave of anti-trans laws being enacted across the U.S., with dozens more anti-trans bills making their way through state legislatures. The Arkansas Senate has approved one of the most harmful bans on access to healthcare for transgender youth by prohibiting the use of gender-affirming care, including hormones and puberty blockers.
More than 500 people have been killed in Burma during protests against the February 1 military coup that toppled Burma’s democratically elected civilian government. At least 141 people were killed over the weekend alone, when soldiers opened fire on civilians demonstrating against military rule in dozens of cities and towns across the country. Children were among the dead, including a 5-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, according to Amnesty International.
Parenting advice on spring break, decluttering, and foster family discord.
The company has come a long way from that cringeworthy “Peloton wife” ad.
The former president released a fact-challenged statement criticizing the former advisers after they criticized his administration’s pandemic response.
The president also said that roughly 90 percent of Americans will have access to vaccines in a matter of three weeks.
The troubling signs come despite more than one-third of American adults now having received at least one Covid-19 shot.
“The interior—well, he’s done some updates, as you can see.
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.
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.
As opening statements begin in Minneapolis for the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, we speak with UCLA historian and author Robin D.G. Kelley, who says a guilty verdict alone would not represent justice for George Floyd. “The real victory would be to end policing as we know it, to end qualified immunity, to end the conditions that enabled Derek Chauvin to take George Floyd’s life and his colleagues to kind of stand there and watch,” says Kelley.
The Florida congressman is reportedly under investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenager, which he denies.
In today’s news, The New York Times revealed that Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has for months been under federal investigation for possible sex trafficking involving a 17-year-old.
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It’s bombshell after bombshell in the Trump Republican era, but this one is a stunner. The New York Times reports that Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, a vitriolic Trump loyalist, is “being investigated by the Justice Department” over a possible sexual relationship with a 17-year-old that may have included paying “for her to travel with him.
Democratic strategist Chris Hahn raged at Mercedes Schlapp and Tucker Carlson for spreading conspiracy theories about vaccine passports.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that former The Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos can proceed with her defamation lawsuit against our pustulant ex-POTUS.
An asylum-seeker who was in sanctuary at an Ohio church for more than three years and was finally able to return to her home and community last month is calling on President Joe Biden to rescind the outrageous fines levied on her by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in what advocates have said is an intimidation tactic against undocumented immigrants who have gone into sanctuary.
When Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert decided it would be a good political move to issue a histrionic email—declaring “I told Beto ‘HELL NO’ to taking our guns. Now we need to tell Joe Biden”—only hours after the news broke about the latest horrific mass shooting in a Boulder grocery store, many people took her to task for the callousness she demonstrated in self-promoting and fundraising off a tragedy.
