Forget the ides of March. Beware the first week of March.At a hearing this morning in Washington, D.C., Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that former President Donald Trump’s federal trial for attempting to subvert the 2020 election will begin on March 4, 2024, with jury selection. The following day, March 5, is Super Tuesday, the day when the greatest number of delegates in the Republican primary is up for grabs.
Rachel Simmons was raised Catholic and later joined a Presbyterian church, but she told me the closest thing she’s ever had to true religion came from a childhood friendship. When she was in middle school, she and two other kids, Margo Darragh and Sam Lodge, formed “RMS”—a name combining each of their first initials—that elevated their friend group to a sacred entity.
The astronauts arrived at the Mars base one by one, dressed in faded orange spacesuits. After they walked through a pressurized chamber and removed their helmets, they were blasted in the face with some sort of decontaminating mist. When the cyclist Lance Armstrong walked in, one of his comrades was in awe. “The fact that we have an astronaut is so crazy,” Ariel Winter, an actor who appeared on Modern Family, told another contestant, who was visibly confused.
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here.For years, the American approach to protein has been a never-ending quest for more. On average, each person in the United States puts away roughly 300 pounds of meat a year; we are responsible for more than a third of the multibillion-dollar protein-supplement market.
The city of White Plains, New York, has settled a lawsuit by the family of a man who was shot in his home by police after accidentally pressing his medical alert badge in 2011. Kenneth Chamberlain repeatedly told police he was fine and asked them to leave, but they refused, called him racial slurs and broke into his home before killing him.
After thousands gathered Saturday in Washington, D.C., to mark the 60th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the 1963 March on Washington, we speak with Gary Younge, author of The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream.
On Saturday, a white supremacist gunman killed three Black people at a store in Jacksonville, Florida, in a racially motivated attack. Authorities say the 21-year-old white gunman initially tried to enter the historically Black college Edward Waters University, but he was turned away by a security guard before driving to a nearby Dollar General and opening fire with a legally purchased attack-style rifle.
The administration is expected to unveil the first 10 drugs selected for price negotiations Tuesday, in a milestone for the president’s health agenda.
The timing gap prompted concerns from public health experts, who fear that it would further complicate the fall vaccination campaign.
The settlements resolve a long-running criminal probe of the generic pharmaceutical industry dating to 2014.
Bipartisan legislation aims to get more Americans into high-deductible insurance, but perils would remain.
The administration doesn’t expect to finalize contracts with pharmacies distributing the vaccine to the uninsured until mid-October, weeks after the shot is made widely available.
“Our economy is the lowest it’s been.
The Biden administration has hit hard the president’s economic policy, known as “Bidenomics,” amid falling inflation, steady job growth and diminished talk of a forthcoming recession.
The president made a big bet on owning the economy. His team says give it time.
The Florida governor has made a name for himself with the fights he’s picked.
Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state Legislature is still facing public outcry over the state’s permissive gun laws in the wake of Nashville’s Covenant School shooting, which killed three 9-year-old children and three adult staff members in March. Since then, the state House, under the control of Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton, has censured its own representatives and deployed state troopers to crack down on public participation.
While being booked for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump made history as the first former president to have his mugshot taken and released to the public. Shortly after the image of Trump scowling at a police camera started to circulate, the embattled real estate mogul and politician began using it to raise money for his 2024 presidential campaign.
Former President Donald Trump was booked Thursday at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on 13 felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. He paid $20,000, or 10% of his $200,000 bond, through a local bail bondsman, allowing him to be released after about 20 minutes at the jail. He is expected to face trial as early as October.
The first Republican presidential primary debate highlighted “deep divisions within the Republican Party about foreign policy,” says The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols. He says the nationalist “America First” ideology championed by former President Donald Trump is now being pushed even further by Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis, who are critical of U.S.
“This wasn’t just some throwaway line for applause on the debate stage,” the MSNBC host said of the claim that GOP candidates are making “repeatedly on the trail.
The MSNBC host spots a “huge irony” in some of the legal actions involving the former president.
Todd read excerpts of Ramaswamy’s book after he claimed that former Vice President Mike Pence missed a “historic opportunity” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Alina Habba unwittingly “destroyed” the explanation, mocked critics.
The Florida governor did not get a warm welcome from those mourning the three people killed in Saturday’s racist attack.
Much is already known about the gunman who killed three Black customers at a Dollar General shop in Jacksonville, Florida, yesterday. He was in possession of an AR-15-style weapon and a handgun; he left manifestos about his hatred toward African Americans; he was wearing a tactical-style uniform as if going to war. There are still questions about how he acquired the guns, his mental state, and whether he had accomplices. But the basic storyline is written. He made it easy. He wanted us to know.
It’s not that he scared me, exactly,
just that he didn’t see me, back then.
There were ghosts in the marriage
and I learned to keep my distance.
When he went, I left the windows open for weeks.
I left the windows open
and I was alone, keeping
my own counsel, and company,
the child, yes, but all grew
toward a kind of freedom,
there were the gardens, yes,
and the animals, there was enough,
and time, I grew rich with days,
and, you see, I didn’t miss him
at first, or then.
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This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine.The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary is a busy place. Roughly 21 miles offshore from Boston’s harbor, the waters are a rich fishing ground, a whale migration route, a shipping channel, and a diving locale. Overseeing the sanctuary, which sits at the mouth of Massachusetts Bay, falls to Deputy Superintendent Ben Haskell, along with Superintendent Pete DeCola, 14 support staff, and two boats. Access to MarineTraffic.
