Failure ‘not an option’: Fed vows all-out fight on inflation
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
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Biden launches plan to protect transgender youths’ health care
An executive order will call on HHS to clarify that federally funded programs cannot offer conversion therapy.
Biden to Visit Saudi Arabia After Vowing to Treat Kingdom as a “Pariah” for Human Rights Violations
President Biden’s formally announced plan to visit Saudi Arabia next month is a dramatic reversal of earlier promises to treat the Arab nation as a “pariah” in light of its repeated human rights violations. Calls are growing for Biden to hold the Saudi government accountable for the brutal murder and dismemberment of American resident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
AFL-CIO Elects 1st Woman Pres. & African American Sec.-Treasurer. Will It Organize Amazon, Starbucks?
President Biden addressed the economy and labor rights in an address Tuesday to the AFL-CIO convention as delegates elected Liz Shuler to become the AFL-CIO’s first female president and Fred Redmond to be its first African American secretary-treasurer.
“Conspiratorial Mindset”: From Nixon to Trump, Lessons for Jan. 6 Hearing 50 Years After Watergate
The 50th anniversary of the Watergate burglary in 1972 this Friday comes as public hearings are underway by the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection. We speak with Garrett Graff, author of “Watergate: A New History,” about critical lessons and historical parallels between the defining controversies of the Nixon and Trump presidencies. Rather than isolated crimes, Watergate and January 6 should be seen as culminating events of U.S.
Abortions jumped in 2020, up 8 percent over 3-year period
The new data comes as the Supreme Court is expected to allow up to half of states to ban the procedure.
Global abortion-rights advocates worry their countries are next if Roe falls
Activists said they spoke to officials not only about their fears of the international impact if Roe were to fall but also proposed changes to U.S. policy that has long restricted funding for abortions abroad.
FDA: Pfizer, Moderna vaccines for kids under 6 are safe, effective
The FDA analyzed the vaccines’ ability to induce neutralizing antibody responses in kids that were comparable to young adults, a concept known as immunobridging. Both met the agency’s success criteria.
State supreme courts: Bottom of the ballot but top concern if Roe falls
The possible end to federal abortion protections is spotlighting down-ballot races in the upcoming midterm elections.
Michigan’s abortion providers brace for a ban — or a surge
The swing state could soon lose all abortion access if Roe is overturned. It could also become a destination for patients across the midwest.
U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6 percent
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
Trump-Backed Election Denier Wins GOP Secretary Of State Primary In Nevada
Jim Marchant, who spread lies about 2020 and helped organize a national slate of election-denying candidates, nears goal to oversee elections in the key state.
Prominent Election Denier Adam Laxalt Wins Nevada GOP Senate Primary
Laxalt will take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in one of the most closely watched races this year.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace Defeats Trump-Backed Challenger
With Donald Trump’s blessing, Katie Arrington questioned Mace’s conservative credentials.
After Defying Trump, GOP Rep. Tom Rice Loses Reelection In South Carolina
The congressman was one of 10 House GOP members who voted in favor of impeaching Trump after the U.S. Capitol riot.
News Roundup: DeSantis is costing Florida a fortune; the Senate continues to Senate
Monday’s House select committee hearings on the Jan. 6. coup attempt raised new questions about just how much of Trump’s post-election fundraising was just a money-seeking grift, but his most likely Republican presidential competitor in 2024 won’t play second fiddle to anyone when it comes to making off with other people’s money: It turns out that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ various “culture war” laws are costing Florida taxpayers a fortune.
Live coverage: June 14 primaries in Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina
Four states are conducting primaries Tuesday, while Texas’ 34th Congressional District is also holding a special all-party primary for the remaining months of Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela’s term. We’ll be liveblogging the results here and also covering the returns closely on Twitter.
Ukraine update: As Russia surges toward Slovyansk, Ukraine moves on Izyum
There’s no way around it. In spite of taking heavy losses. In spite of an artillery exchange that at the moment seems to seriously favor Ukraine. In spite of bad organization, bad logistics, bad leadership, bad training, and bad maintenance … Russia is still putting enough forces into place in eastern Ukraine to slowly grind their way toward the objective of capturing critical sites in Luhansk and Donetsk.
MTG touts climate change ‘benefits’ while bizarrely claiming no one can see Jan. 6 video footage
You may not have heard of Right Side Broadcasting Network, and if that’s the case—congratulations! You live a rich, full life unadulterated by brain weevils. Obviously, you’re not part of the network’s target demographic, which appears to consist almost entirely of Scott Baio getting shambolically drunk on Boone’s Farm.
But what the network lacks in gravitas it more than makes up for in goofy-ass displays of meretricious nonsense.
Jan. 6 hearings reveal how easily millions were conned—and why they won’t stop believing in Trump
Con artists are a special breed of predator. Not only do they traffic in humanity’s most basic passions—their hopes, fears and expectations—but they rely on the singular human emotions of self-respect and self-worth in order to protect themselves from blowback if their con is discovered. The most painful thing for any person to admit is that they were snookered, led down the merry garden path by a huckster, or simply “ripped off.
This Is How Reactionary Prosecutors Thwart Criminal Justice Reform
Three strikes reform in Washington state was supposed to give Thomas Butler a chance to leave prison, but prosecutors are fighting to keep him there for life.
Recession fears grow as Fed mulls amping up fight against inflation
Things are so dire that central bank policymakers might hike rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, a move not taken in almost 30 years.
Leave Joe Biden Alone
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.Every administration has its ups and downs; today I examine why the Biden White House is taking more than its fair share of hits. But first, here are three great new stories from The Atlantic.
The right to become a parent is now at risk too.
Monkeypox vaccines are too gnarly for the masses.
FDA advisers vote to recommend Moderna Covid vaccine EUA for kids 6-17
Panel members largely agreed that the benefits of having another vaccine available to these age groups outweigh the potential risks.
The Problem of English Identity
The week I saw Jerusalem, the West End revival of Jez Butterworth’s extraordinary 2009 play, London was still cleaning up after a days-long ruckus celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, the 70th anniversary of her reign. In my neighborhood, tattered bunting clung weakly to lampposts and gathered dirt under car tires at the side of the road. I picked bits of plastic flags and ice-cream wrappers out from my window boxes.
Minority Report Tried to Warn Us About Technology
In Minority Report, when the detective John Anderton goes on the run in Washington, D.C., one of the first things he needs to do is swap out his eyes. The police of Steven Spielberg’s film, set in 2054, are not the only ones tracking people with eye-scanning machines mounted around the city. Public transit does so too, as does every business, and even all the billboards, which scream slogans such as “John Anderton! You could use a Guinness right about now!” as he walks by them.
Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future
A Google engineer named Blake Lemoine became so enthralled by an AI chatbot that he may have sacrificed his job to defend it. “I know a person when I talk to it,” he told The Washington Post for a story published last weekend. “It doesn’t matter whether they have a brain made of meat in their head. Or if they have a billion lines of code.” After discovering that he’d gone public with his claims, Google put Lemoine on administrative leave.
Is monkeypox a world health emergency? The WHO will decide next week.
Nearly 40 countries have reported more than 1,600 cases.
Our Powerful, Shiny New Space Telescope Got Its First Upsetting Ding
Lee Feinberg was on vacation, and he deserved it. It was late May, and Feinberg, a manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, had spent “an incredibly tense several months” leading the effort to carefully deploy the mirrors on the world’s newest and most powerful space telescope, making sure that each of the gold-coated tiles—18 in all, arranged in a honeycomb shape—was properly aligned.
Trump’s “Big Lie Was Also a Big Ripoff” as He Raised $250 Million from Supporters After 2020 Loss
Monday’s January 6 committee hearing ended with closing statements from January 6 committee vice chair, Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Zoe Lofgren describing how the Trump administration raised over $250 million from his supporters, off of the lie that the 2020 election results were fraudulent, for an election defense fund that didn’t exist.