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Mark Courtney and Shanta Trivedi at The Appeal write—The Case for Providing Guaranteed Income to Kids Aging out of Foster Care:
More and more in America, young adults rely on their parents and other relatives for housing and financial support well into their 20s.
President Biden knows exactly what happened to President Obama, and he’s not going to let it happen again.
President Barack Obama is now universally credited, even by Republicans, for pulling this country back from the precipice of an economic catastrophe that would have been nothing short of a second Great Depression.
Back in December of 2018, after a series of cancellations on Second Amendment platform NRATV, the axe came for right-wing Trump apologist Dan Bongino. The first reporting on the matter came from news outlet The Daily Beast and was accompanied by the headline: “Dan Bongino out at NRATV – BONGI-NO-MORE.
In another first for Muslim Americans nationwide, the Harvard Law Review, a prestigious law school journal, has named a Muslim as president for the first time in its 134-year history. According to Reuters, Hassaan Shahawy, an Egyptian American from Los Angeles, will join others who held the noteworthy position—including former president Barack Obama, who was the first Black president for both the review journal and the nation.
In 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives under Democratic leadership passed landmark LGBTQ rights legislation that would go on to become one of the hundreds (yes, hundreds, here’s a full list courtesy of Daily Kos’ Meteor Blades) of bills blocked by Senate Republicans.
The House impeachment managers made a clear and emotional case for why the Senate must hold an impeachment trial. Trump’s lawyers? Not so much.
Trump’s defense attorney David Schoen, an Orthodox Jew, was engaging in a Jewish ritual.
The Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the proposed wage hike looks bad—because it was designed to be.
“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like.”That’s what Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell had to say on January 21. McConnell did not rise to the leadership of the Senate Republicans by speaking idly.
The former president in 1993 promised the town he would not live at Mar-a-Lago if they gave him permission to convert the estate into a for-profit social club.
“You try to present your best face to the district judge, instead of an image of a cat.
“I have no idea what he’s doing,” Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, said of Bruce Castor’s defense.
The emotional high point of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial probably came in its first hours.Closing out the opening presentation from the Democratic House managers, Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland offered a powerful speech in which he choked back tears as he recalled the attempted coup of January 6.
“Inheritance” is The Atlantic’s new project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory. In a live virtual event, The Atlantic will gather leading writers to discuss how Black history has been buried—and what unearthing it will look like.The event will feature the Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, staff writer Adam Harris, senior editor Vann R.
David Schoen said the trial of Donald Trump “will tear this country apart, perhaps like we’ve only seen once before in our history.
The program’s launch comes as White House officials are trying to address inequities in the nation’s vaccination push.
Every Tuesday, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas, expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a changing planet. that it would no longer insure hundreds of midwestern car dealerships because of “catastrophic” hail damage.Second, I’m intrigued by who the study’s authors are. Kubicek and his colleagues have scientific credentials, but they’re not academics.
Most of the traditional Mardi Gras activities in New Orleans have been canceled this year because of the ongoing pandemic. But locals have spent their time and effort working on safe alternative celebrations to keep the spirit of Carnival alive—including the decoration of hundreds of houses in the style of Mardi Gras floats. The Krewe of House Floats has worked with people across the city and is listing participants on a map.
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The group notes that the FDA suspended in-person requirements for many other drugs during the pandemic, including opioids.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported at least 72 people to Haiti, including a 2-month-old baby and 21 other children. The deportations appear to be a contradiction of the Biden administration’s order to deport only people with serious charges against them. Haiti faces an increase in political violence and ongoing protests against President Jovenel Moïse’s U.S.
As the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus tops 465,000, we speak with two disability rights activists about growing calls to prioritize giving COVID vaccines to people with physical and mental disabilities. Some states, including California, are failing to prioritize vaccines for people with serious physical or developmental disabilities, even though studies show they are up to three times more likely to die from COVID-19.
The historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump marks the first time a president will face impeachment after leaving office, and many Republicans claim the trial of a former president is unconstitutional. But most legal experts disagree. “Of course the Senate can conduct this trial,” says Alan Hirsch, author and chair of the Justice and Law Studies program at Williams College.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has collected extensive virus samples, leading to allegations that it may have caused the outbreak by leaking the virus into the community.
She was already making us feel uncomfortable, but this act was the final straw.
Parenting advice on bullying, fatherhood, and abuse.
He doesn’t fully spell out why he thinks Congress shouldn’t spend too much, because that would undermine his weird point.
But if you’re still not convinced, look at these charts.
“The AstraZeneca vaccine appeared effective against the original strain, but not against the variant,” an official said.
The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says the current supply shortage will be overcome.