Lawmakers are lining up to decide what Medicare will pay for after the pandemic is over, with sponsors of a leading Senate plan confident they have the votes to include it in a must-pass piece of legislation this year.
The nation is still short hundreds of millions — or more — surgical masks, gloves and gowns.
She says I stole it from her stillborn daughter.
Teacher advice on moving, math advancement, and IEPs.
I don’t know what to do now.
“Dom” performers like Girl Flexxx and Kaution are collecting big tips and even bigger fans, even among straight women.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
It is Friday! What a week it has been. The anti-democratically unbalanced Supreme Court has been writing some truly tragic decisions. Americans everywhere are under attack from the least democratically elected agents in our government. But there is hope.
On Thursday, July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s GOP voter suppression law—a crushing blow to our freedom to vote. This will have dire effects on the whole country, but especially in Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s home state of Arizona.
In order to restore and protect our democracy, we must pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Act. But both bills are blocked in the Senate due to the filibuster—an archaic rule that Sinema still defends.
Detained immigrants and their advocates have said since the beginning of the novel coronavirus pandemic that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn’t taking this virus seriously (or just doesn’t really care to). For example, ICE’s refusal to release immigrants to shelter at home and in their communities added hundreds of thousands of cases to the national caseload.
Ignorance has halted the chance for a product geared toward inclusion from making an appearance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the products being swimming caps designed for natural Black hair. According to CBS News, Fédération Internationale De Natation (FINA), the federation for international competitions in water sports, rejected an application for the caps to be officially recognized—meaning the caps cannot be worn at upcoming games.
The U.S. economy is up 850,000 jobs, according to the June jobs report, and the past two months’ jobs reports were adjusted upward by 15,000. June’s jobs report is the strongest result in 10 months.
The unemployment rate rose slightly, to 5.9%, while the number of people who have been jobless for six months or more rose to 4 million, and “Black unemployment remains in deeply recessionary territory at 9.
“I think you need to work on your insults,” one Twitter user told the Texas Republican.
A new court filing baselessly claims Clinton orchestrated Sandy Hook defamation cases against the Infowars host in a “vendetta to silence Alex Jones.
His timing has serious implications for the Supreme Court’s ideological balance, but it doesn’t seem like the pressure is getting to him.
There was an awkward mishap with his lectern — not to mention his tweets.
Parenting advice on parenting groups, pit bull boundaries, and parents who don’t think you have anxiety.
After having been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, the quadrennial European soccer championship began in June, hosted by 11 different cities across the continent. Euro 2020 (as it has continued to be called despite now taking place in 2021) follows a season unlike any we had seen before in world football, during which many teams across the globe played the majority of their matches without any fans in the stands.It was a strange and often disorienting experience.
June was the biggest month for hiring since August 2020.
If the facts alleged in yesterday’s indictment are true, the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have engaged in blatant tax evasion for more than a decade.Early reports characterized the crime in question as involving “fringe benefits.” This gives entirely the wrong impression. The Trump Organization and Weisselberg aren’t being charged with tripping over some hyper-technical provision on the margins of the tax system.
In dozens of novels written over a decades-long career, the romance writer Jackie Collins sharply observed the role of sex and power in Hollywood. She wrote incisively about abuse in the industry and empowered female characters who found liberation in a male-dominated world. She was brilliant and prescient—and overlooked in literary circles by those who wrote off her work as trashy airport smut.
The company earned a massive fine the same week it filed to go public. That’s not a coincidence.
Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has announced she is deploying 50 members of the South Dakota National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border at the request of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. In an extraordinary twist, the deployment is being paid for by billionaire Republican megadonor Willis Johnson, who lives in Tennessee.
Trump’s brag about taxes to Hillary Clinton may not age well, suggested former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance.
Resistance to construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline continues in northern Minnesota, where more than a dozen water protectors this week locked themselves to construction vehicles at two worksites, and to the pipeline itself. Just last month, 179 people were arrested when thousands shut down an Enbridge pumping station for two days as part of the Treaty People Gathering.
