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‘This should not be dismissed’: Kennedy scares both sides of abortion debate
Anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups fear the Kennedy scion will peel off voters disillusioned with Trump and Biden.
Arizona just repealed its 1864 abortion ban. Democrats don’t want voter outrage to disappear with it.
The legislation, which is expected to be soon signed into law by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, will preserve access to the procedure for millions of women.
Biden hoped for a big economic story to tell. Now, he’s going small.
The president is getting more micro in his economic sales pitch as the landscape loses its luster.
US job market slows in April
Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the blockbuster increase of 315,000 in March.
Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
US employers added a surprisingly robust 303,000 jobs in March in a sign of economic strength
By any measure, it amounted to a strong month of hiring.
‘The last mile is harder’: Stubborn inflation stalls Fed rate cuts
The concern is that higher rates are putting pressure on households and businesses looking to borrow, weighing on hiring, investment and the housing market.
The Cat Who Saved Me
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I have had cats since I was a boy, and all of them were wonderful, but one of them left a mark on my life forever.
First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:
“What happened to Stormy Daniels is not salacious,” Quinta Jurecic writes.
The Weird World of AI Voice Replicas
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It’s a good bet that the generative-AI era will be stranger than anyone expects. In a new feature for The Atlantic, my colleague Charlie Warzel profiles ElevenLabs, an AI company that specializes in replicating voices.
The ‘Lurid Metaphors’ of Illness
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Sickness, like love and grief, is a universal part of the human condition—but it also feels completely subjective, so much so that conveying the accompanying sensations and emotions can be hard. Doctors sometimes ask patients to rate their pain on a scale of 1 to 10: Are you at a 5 or an 8? My mind always freezes in such moments.
What Happened to Stormy Daniels Is Not Salacious
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One evening in March 2018, I joined some friends at a bar in Washington, D.C., to watch a live broadcast of Anderson Cooper’s interview with the adult-film actor Stormy Daniels on 60 Minutes.
Prom Dresses Are Just Dresses Now
For high schoolers across America, prom season means heady nights of corsages, limousines, broken curfews, and gaudy, bedazzled gowns—except, maybe not that last part anymore. The words prom dress once conjured images of shimmering taffeta and poofy princess skirts and other cringeworthy fashion choices only teens would make.
“Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors”: Play Tells Story of 2017 London Apartment Fire That Killed 72
The play Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors, which is being staged this week in Brooklyn, tells the story of the 2017 apartment fire at Grenfell Tower in London that killed 72 people. It was the worst fire in Britain since World War II, and survivors blamed the government for mismanaging the public housing block and neglecting maintenance.
Playwright Gillian Slovo: I Grew Up in Apartheid South Africa. I Saw the Same Thing in Palestine
Gaza solidarity encampments, which started on U.S. college campuses, have now spread worldwide as students call on their educational institutions to divest from companies profiting from Israeli apartheid and occupation. The uprising echoes the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s, when many in civil society called for divestment from companies that profited from South Africa’s system of racial domination.
Senate Candidate Larry Hamm on ’70s Anti-Apartheid Protests at Princeton and Voting “Uncommitted” in NJ
Larry Hamm is chair of the People’s Organization for Progress and a Princeton alumnus who took part in protests at the school in the 1970s to call for divestment from apartheid South Africa. He visited the Princeton student encampment earlier this week and says he is “really proud of the students” for their protest against the war in Gaza. Hamm, who is running in the Democratic primary for the U.S.
“We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met
Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands. The hunger strikers are also calling for all charges to be dropped against a number of students arrested on campus in late April as part of the encampment.
12 Arrested Outside NYC’s New School as First Faculty-Led Gaza Solidarity Encampment Continues
The first faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment in the United States was launched Wednesday at The New School in New York City, where nearly two dozen professors and lecturers pitched tents inside the lobby of the university’s main building on Fifth Avenue. The encampment is named after the Palestinian writer, poet and professor Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza in December.
Biden finalizes rule opening up Obamacare to DACA recipients
Federal health officials estimate that roughly 100,000 people enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will sign up for subsidized plans through the health insurance marketplace over the next year under the rule.
Covid lessons remain unlearned as avian flu infects cattle, hospitals say
Dairy cows in nine states are infected and hospitals are looking to the government for guidance.
‘This should not be dismissed’: Kennedy scares both sides of abortion debate
Anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups fear the Kennedy scion will peel off voters disillusioned with Trump and Biden.
Arizona just repealed its 1864 abortion ban. Democrats don’t want voter outrage to disappear with it.
The legislation, which is expected to be soon signed into law by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, will preserve access to the procedure for millions of women.
Biden hoped for a big economic story to tell. Now, he’s going small.
The president is getting more micro in his economic sales pitch as the landscape loses its luster.
US job market slows in April
Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the blockbuster increase of 315,000 in March.
Trump Is Misleading You With Covid-Era Statistics. So Is Biden.
Biden and Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.
US employers added a surprisingly robust 303,000 jobs in March in a sign of economic strength
By any measure, it amounted to a strong month of hiring.
‘The last mile is harder’: Stubborn inflation stalls Fed rate cuts
The concern is that higher rates are putting pressure on households and businesses looking to borrow, weighing on hiring, investment and the housing market.
Mistrial: Abu Ghraib Survivors Detail Torture in Case Against U.S. Military Contractor
A historic case against U.S. military contractor CACI brought by three Iraqi survivors of torture at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq ended in mistrial in Virginia last week after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The lawsuit against CACI — which was hired to provide interrogation services at Abu Ghraib — was first filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2008. Since then, CACI repeatedly attempted to have the case dismissed.
The Book You’re Reading Might Be Wrong
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If Kristi Noem never actually met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, then how did that anecdote make it into her memoir? The answer, after these three stories from The Atlantic:
It’s not a rap beef. It’s a cultural reckoning.
Trump flaunts his corruption.
Did Something Happen to Our Necks?
It used to be that whenever someone on TV or in a movie fell off the roof or had a skiing mishap or got into any sort of auto accident, the odds were pretty good that they’d end up in a neck brace. You know what I mean: a circlet of beige foam, or else a rigid ring of plastic, spanning from an actor’s chin down to their sternum. Jack Lemmon wore a neck brace for a part. So did Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Roberts, and Bill Murray.