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Biden highlights efforts to fight inflation, attacks ‘ultra-MAGA’ GOP
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday continued his sharpened attack on what he’s now calling the GOP’s “ultra-MAGA” agenda as he pitched his plan to tackle inflation. His remarks [Read More…]
Security tightened for Supreme Court justices as protests extend to Alito’s home
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Abortion rights activists gathered outside of Justice Samuel Alito’s Virginia home on Monday night to protest the draft opinion he authored that leaked last week from [Read More…]
Nebraska, West Virginia primaries highlight GOP divisions over Trump and the ‘big lie’
adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Of the numerous primary races being held Tuesday, two resonate beyond state politics: The Republican gubernatorial primary in Nebraska and the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary in West Virginia. After [Read More…]
White House responds to abortion-related protests at homes of Supreme Court justices
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The homes of Supreme Court justices are the newest site for protests over abortion access in the United States. Activists gathered Saturday in the rain outside the Maryland residences of [Read More…]
Democrats ready vote to legalize abortion after McConnell says national ban ‘possible’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A critical week in the battle over abortion rights — what activists are calling the “fight of a generation” — kicks off in the U.S. Senate on Monday, with Democrats [Read More…]
Biden signs bill to expedite shipments of weapons, supplies to Ukraine
Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States is bringing back a World War II-era program to bolster Ukraine’s war supplies. Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office on Monday, President Joe [Read More…]
Biden to tout expansion of discount internet program for low-income households
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As he seeks to close the nation’s digital divide, President Joe Biden will announce on Monday new commitments from 20 internet service providers to expand discounted, high-speed internet [Read More…]
Two more major law enforcement groups endorse Biden pick for ATF
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has received the endorsement of two more major law enforcement groups, according to two [Read More…]
Colorado voting officials adopt safety measures as state becomes target for election conspiracists
Mesa County, Colo., clerk and recorder Tina Peters – Photo by Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images (DENVER) — When Josh Zygielbaum left the Marine Corps more than ten years ago, he thought [Read More…]
Arkansas governor says he opposes national abortion ban
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that he opposes a national ban on abortion because it would take away the authority of a state like his that is poised [Read More…]
They traveled across state lines to get abortions. Now they fear a post-Roe world
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A leaked draft opinion showing the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade sparked nationwide outrage and panic among abortion rights advocates. And for women who already experienced [Read More…]
Abortion bans ‘will be swift’ if Roe v. Wade is overturned: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The move to add new abortion bans “will be swift” if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday, adding that the Senate will do everything [Read More…]
Kamala Harris warns women may lose right to ‘make decisions about their own bodies’ in commencement speech
Alan Poizner/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — Vice President Kamala Harris gave a sobering look at the “unsettled” world students are heading into as she delivered the commencement speech at Tennessee State University on [Read More…]
Women’s Health Protection Act explained as Roe v. Wade comes under likely threat
Tom Brenner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As a leaked draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling shows a conservative majority of justices appear poised to overturn federal protections of abortion rights, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer [Read More…]
Some Republicans use false ‘pedophilia’ claims to attack Democrats, LGBTQ people
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It was an eyebrow-raising moment in the confirmation hearings for the first Black female Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson — a grilling about her stance on child porn offenders. [Read More…]
Supreme Court leak probe likely to focus on justices, clerks, and staff
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The extraordinary leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade has triggered an equally extraordinary whodunnit focused on a small universe of court employees who have regular [Read More…]
Judge rules GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can stay on ballot
John Bazemore-Pool/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — An administrative law judge in Georgia on Friday ruled that GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene can stay on the ballot for the state’s 14th Congressional District following a challenge to her [Read More…]
Elizabeth Warren talks to ‘The View’ about the repercussions of ending Roe v. Wade
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., joined “The View” Friday to reiterate what she says will be the devastating effects on women’s health if Roe v. Wade is overturned. Since the leak of [Read More…]
What does the Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion mean for other rights?
Joseph Sohm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With a leaked draft opinion revealing this week that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to overturn nearly 50 years of abortion rights precedent, Democrats and activists are sounding alarms [Read More…]
‘We’re not going back’: Hillary Clinton speaks out on abortion rights
Paul Morigi/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Reproductive rights were top of mind for Hillary Clinton and others at the grand opening of the new Global Embassy for Women in Washington, D.C., on Thursday — just [Read More…]