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Trump’s condition deteriorated to the point where officials reportedly believed he would need to be put on a ventilator.
The 200 million doses just purchased will be available by May, rather than June as originally predicted.
Democrats long complained the rules were illegal and aimed at shrinking health coverage for poor adults.
Donald Trump knew Mike Pence was in danger when he attacked the vice president on Twitter during the Capitol riot.
Stoya and Rich Juzwiak on the book that has changed a lot of readers’ lives—their sex lives, in particular.
A young Denise Maso stands on the balcony of an apartment in Le Pont-de-Claix, France, where she spent most of her adult life. (Courtesy of Marion Renault)On her first night home from the hospital, between bouts of writhing in pain, my grandmother stopped to ask me, over and over, “Qu’est-ce que j’ai fait?”: “What did I do?”My grandmother, Denise, is 82 and in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease, which means she can no longer form new memories.
Updated at 5:45 p.m. on February 11, 2021.The social-media celebrity JoJo Siwa has built an empire by dressing in sparkly rainbow outfits while chattering about individuality and self-acceptance. But when she wanted the world to know that she was queer, she let Lady Gaga do the talking. In a TikTok last month, the 17-year-old Siwa filmed herself grinning and lip-synching to Gaga’s 2011 hit “Born This Way.
Indian farmworkers are continuing to take to the streets to demand Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeal three highly contested agricultural laws. Farmworkers say the laws, which seek to deregulate markets and allow large corporations to set prices, threaten their livelihoods. Dozens have died since the start of the protests, with many deaths caused by the harsh winter as tens of thousands of farmers have camped out in the cold on the outskirts of New Delhi and other parts of the country.
Anne Feeney, the legendary Pittsburgh folk singer-songwriter and self-described rabble-rouser, has died of COVID at age 69. Her death comes a decade after she joined in the Wisconsin uprising against a draconian anti-union bill and “sang its solidarity song,” remembers The Nation’s John Nichols, who covered the protests and is based in Madison.
Democratic House impeachment managers laid out their case against former President Donald Trump on the second day of the Senate trial, releasing shocking video from inside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection. The footage shows violent Trump supporters were just 58 steps away from lawmakers’ offices.
On the second day of former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, House impeachment managers presented detailed documentation of the events leading up to the January 6 insurrection and shared dramatic new footage of the violence as it unfolded.
I don’t want to out her, but I can’t keep this from my dad.
I want to make this transition back to school as easy as possible.
Downtowns won’t recover from the pandemic anytime soon. Public transportation must look elsewhere.
We still have several months of socializing outside. Get yourself some sexy mittens.
Investors are pumping up bubbles across markets, with excitement growing about more stimulus and widespread vaccinations.
The Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the proposed wage hike looks bad—because it was designed to be.
What happens if a pandemic-era trend sticks around?
A century before GameStop, a stock market outsider took on short sellers. It was a spectacle and a disaster.
He doesn’t fully spell out why he thinks Congress shouldn’t spend too much, because that would undermine his weird point.
The program’s launch comes as White House officials are trying to address inequities in the nation’s vaccination push.
The group notes that the FDA suspended in-person requirements for many other drugs during the pandemic, including opioids.
As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.
The decision breaks with the Trump administration’s opposition to Okonjo-Iweala and brings the U.S. in line with much of the rest of the world.
Employment levels, however, will not fully recover until 2024.
Without help from Congress, he has few options to turn the U.S. economy around.
“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.
A statement from Sen. Tommy Tuberville shows Trump turned his mob against Pence minutes after hearing his vice president had to be hustled from the Senate.
