First post-Roe spending bill includes no funding boost for family planning, angering groups
With Republicans taking the House majority next year, progressives had framed the bill as a critical opportunity.
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Why Democrats warmed to severing Medicaid eligibility from the Covid public health emergency
The Congressional Budget Office assumes the public health emergency for Covid will expire in July — barring another extension by the Biden administration.
‘THE central issue’: How the fall of Roe v. Wade shook the 2022 election
More than 50 Democratic and Republican elected officials, campaign aides and consultants took POLITICO inside the first campaign after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling.
White House Covid doctor: Safe to gather, but …
During the holidays, “people are gathering, as they should,” White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said.
U.S. inflation slowed sharply to 7.1 percent over past 12 months
Even with last month’s further easing of inflation, the Federal Reserve plans to keep raising interest rates.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
U.S. economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6 percent
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
Six Charged in Atlanta with Domestic Terrorism for Protesting “Cop City” Training Facility
Six people in Atlanta have been charged with domestic terrorism for taking part in protests against a massive new police training facility known as Cop City. The protesters were taking part in a months-long encampment in a forested area of Atlanta where the city wants to build a $90 million, 85-acre training center on the site of a former prison farm. Conservationists have long wanted to protect the area, the South River Forest, from future development.
U.S.-Venezuelan Relations Thaw After Years of Harsh Sanctions Helped Worsen Economic & Migrant Crisis
The Biden administration recently moved to ease some sanctions on Venezuela and gave Chevron the green light to resume oil production in Venezuela. Venezuela has faced a years-long economic crisis in part due to harsh U.S. sanctions. Miguel Tinker Salas joins us to discuss shifting U.S.-Venezuelan relations, as well as their impacts on Venezuelan migrants to the U.S.
Arizona Lawyers: Kari Lake Election Loss Lawsuit Lacks Merit
Democrat Katie Hobbs won the state’s gubernatorial race by just over 17,000 votes.
IRS Bashed For Dropping The Ball On Trump Tax Audits
The “deferential” agency was reportedly overwhelmed by an army of Trump accountants and lawyers and the complexity of his tangled businesses.
CNN Anchor Presses Jan. 6 Committee Member Zoe Lofgren In Tense On-Air Exchange
Republicans are set to take over the House majority next month, and it’s unlikely the ethics committee’s GOP members will go after fellow party members.
Ex-Federal Prosecutor Predicts ‘We’re Finally At Tick Tock’ For Trump In 2023
“Lots of reasons for him to be concerned heading into 2023,” former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance told MSNBC.
Trump Admitted It Was ‘Embarrassing’ He Lost, According To Cassidy Hutchinson Transcript
Trump unleashed a rant two days before Hutchinson’s testimony transcript was released. The ex-president claimed he was always certain he won the 2020 vote.
FINAL REPORT: The January 6 committee publishes its final report on the insurrection
The Jan. 6 Committee has published its final report. You can find it here.
The report is a sweeping 845 pages and features rich narratives neatly divided into different phases of former President Donald Trump’s push to overturn the results of the 2020 election before finally inciting an insurrection at the U.S Capitol.
Each section will be updated.
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Far right’s armed thugs unable to intimidate LGBTQ community, thanks to large crowds of defenders
The antidemocratic far right has been building momentum for its campaign of intimidation against the LGBTQ community this year by organizing gangs of armed neofascist thugs to turn out at their events—ranging from Pride gatherings to drag-queen story hours—and has largely done so without resistance. That’s beginning to change—and it seems to be making a difference.
Ukraine update: 100,000 Russian soldiers have died. Bakhmut stands
UPDATE: Thursday, Dec 22, 2022 · 11:09:38 PM +00:00
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Mark Sumner
💬 Russian MFA Spokesperson Maria Zakharova: Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations @SergiyKyslytsya tweeted a new flag of Ukraine 👇 This is exactly what we’ve been talking about all these years – though no one believed. Well, congrats! https://t.
T’was the night before Christmas, and Rand Paul is being Rand Paul again
What … what am I looking at here?
🎄 I wrote and performed my own scary version of ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas 🎄 Enjoy! pic.twitter.
Senate passes government funding bill. House ready to move quickly
UPDATE: Thursday, Dec 22, 2022 · 9:34:47 PM +00:00
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Laura Clawson
The House will vote Friday.
Ukraine’s Fate and America’s Destiny
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.The Ukrainian president came to Washington not only to seek aid in the fight against Russia but to remind Americans that there is still a “free world,” and only the United States can unite it.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
How Glass Frogs Weave the World’s Best Invisibility Cloak
Glass frogs do not live a life of modesty. With their semitransparent skin—green on the back, clear on the belly—the tree-dwelling, gummy-bear-size amphibians, which are native to the tropics of Central and South America, have little choice but to put their organs on display. Gaze up at certain species from below, and you’ll be treated to an aquarium of innards: a beating heart, a matrix of bones, the shimmering silhouette of the gut.
How the Lessons of Game of Thrones Were Lost
Were the meaning of life to be divined from any artifact produced in the year 2022, that artifact would be a Negroni Sbagliato. Or rather, it would be the sight of the actors Emma D’Arcy and Olivia Cooke, in a now-famous promotional video for HBO’s House of the Dragon, discussing their favorite cocktails. In the dishy tone of someone describing a sex dream, D’Arcy endorses the Negroni Sbagliato, which is like a negroni but, D’Arcy purrs, “with prosecco in it.
Why I Left Venezuela
Migration, I like to tell myself, is the opposite of inertia. I left Venezuela on August 28, 2014. President Hugo Chávez had died the year before, bequeathing power over his dictatorship to his hand-picked successor, Nicolás Maduro. Around this time, supermarket shelves were emptying and resourceful Venezuelans were creating WhatsApp groups to tell one another where to find medicine, toilet paper, flour.
“We Are at a Precipice as a Nation”: Cornel West & Christina Greer on Jan. 6 Insurrection & More
We speak with Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer and theologian Cornel West about the January 6 committee’s recommendation that former President Donald Trump and his allies be criminally charged for their role in the insurrection and attempts to overturn the 2020 election. “Just because it’s unprecedented doesn’t mean that we can’t have prosecutions,” says Greer.
U.S. Faith Leaders Call for Xmas Truce in Ukraine as Zelensky Visits D.C. Seeking More Arms & Money
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has wrapped up a one-day visit to Washington, D.C., where he called on the Biden administration and lawmakers to provide more military and financial aid to Ukraine in its fight against Russia. This was Zelensky’s first overseas trip in nearly a year, since the war began. Ahead of the trip, over 1,000 faith leaders in the United States called for a Christmas truce in Ukraine.
First post-Roe spending bill includes no funding boost for family planning, angering groups
With Republicans taking the House majority next year, progressives had framed the bill as a critical opportunity.
Why Democrats warmed to severing Medicaid eligibility from the Covid public health emergency
The Congressional Budget Office assumes the public health emergency for Covid will expire in July — barring another extension by the Biden administration.
‘THE central issue’: How the fall of Roe v. Wade shook the 2022 election
More than 50 Democratic and Republican elected officials, campaign aides and consultants took POLITICO inside the first campaign after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling.
White House Covid doctor: Safe to gather, but …
During the holidays, “people are gathering, as they should,” White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said.