With Omicron in US, GOP Hard-Liners Are Still Trying to Thwart Vaccine Mandates
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The current federal spending agreement that funds many operations of government is set to expire at midnight on Friday. Many federal government agencies will be shut down again if there isn’t a new deal, at least a vote that moves the needle a bit. M*A*S*H didn’t get […]
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Ocasio-Cortez Says Assault Accusations Should Bar Kavanaugh From Abortion Ruling
On Wednesday, as Supreme Court We are getting closer toOverturning Roe v. WadeRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), criticized the court for allowing Justice Brett Kavanaugh the right to rule on the matter, noting that he was previously accused of multiple counts sexual assualt. “Reminder that Brett Kavanaugh *still* remains credibly accused of sexual assault on […]
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Redistricting Threatens Decades of Black Voters’ Hard-Fought Victories
While building back the nation’s infrastructure remains the focus inside the Capital Beltway, congressional inaction on voting rights has the biggest potential to tear down years of progress for Black people in this country. Despite the fact that communities of color in cities across the United States are organizing themselves to fulfill the Voting Rights […]
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Welfare Is So Hard to Get in Utah, Some Feel They Must Join LDS Church for Aid
This story was originally published in ProPublica. ProPublicaPulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Register for The Big Story newsletterGet stories like this in your inbox Near the start of the pandemic, in a gentrifying neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, visitors from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints arrived at Danielle Bellamy’s doorstep. They wanted […]
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Celebrities Urge Hollywood to End Support for Big Pharma’s Vaccine Monopoly
More than 275 artists and celebrities have been featured. signed on to an open letter endorsing a patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines and slamming the “flimsy” arguments made by industry lobbyists defending the global intellectual property regime, which has fueled massive inequities in vaccine access. The letter was signed by Naomi Klein, actor Mark Ruffalo […]
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If SCOTUS Restricts Abortion Access, Marginalized People Will Be Hurt Most
We speak to Alexis McGill Johnson (President and CEO). CEOThe Planned Parenthood Federation of America has information about Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing. In which the conservative majority seemed to indicate they support upholding the restrictive Mississippi law banning abortion beginning at 15 weeks of pregnancy and potentially overturning it, the Supreme Court hearing was discussed […]
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Biden to Announce New COVID Approach, Including Reimbursements for At-Home Tests
On Thursday, the Biden administration will unveil a listing of measures to resume the combat towards COVID-19 because the U.S. heads into its second winter of the pandemic. The announcement, which might be made by President Joe Biden on the Nationwide Institutes of Well being at midday, was preceded by a media call on Wednesday […]
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Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Indicate They’ll Upend Roe v. Wade
The United States Supreme Court appears prepared to dramatically weaken decades worth of precedent protecting abortion rights. The High Court heard arguments Wednesday regarding a restrictive Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. Lynn Fitch, Mississippi Attorney-General, was the first to file its briefs earlier this year. It was a direct challenge Roe v. WadeA […]
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People Will Have to Travel 250 Miles on Average for Abortions If “Roe” Is Axed
If the Supreme Courtroom overturns Roe v. Wade, because it might very properly do subsequent 12 months, the common American must journey about 125 miles or extra — or about 250 miles round-trip — to entry the closest abortion supplier, in accordance with knowledge from the Myers Abortion Facility database that was first reported by […]
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Vaccine Mandates Are Working. Democrats Should Act Boldly on Other Issues Too.
Even though the exact threat it poses is not known, the Omicron strain of COVID-19 has emerged. This development should serve as a reminder of what’s been clear from the beginning of the pandemic — that the only way to suppress the virus’s spread is to have a truly global vaccination effort. The most obvious […]
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