Turning Point Action’s Student Activists Were Torn Between Trump, DeSantis Last Year. Not Now.
Attendees at this year’s meeting booed at even the suggestion of a contested GOP primary. Trump, they overwhelmingly said, is their pick.
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Texas Trooper Emailed Boss To Warn Of ‘Inhumane’ Razor Wire ‘Traps’ At Border: Report
Border officers have been ordered to deny water to migrants and push them back into the Rio Grande at times, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
Iowa judge blocks state’s new abortion law
That means abortion is once again legal in Iowa up to 20 weeks of pregnancy while the courts assess the new law’s constitutionality.
Joe Manchin On 2024 Campaign: ‘If I Get In The Race, It’ll Be To Win’
The West Virginia Democrat wouldn’t rule out a third-party presidential bid, saying in New Hampshire on Monday that his goal is to “save the nation.
Georgia Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Request To Shut Down Election Probe
The court dismissed the petition and ruled that the former president’s team had failed to present “extraordinary circumstances” to warrant its intervention.
Why the Remote-Work Debate Stays So Heated
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.The physical space in which a person works, or hopes to work, intersects with their most personal choices. Today we’re checking in on the remote-work debate and why it remains so heated.First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
The businessmen broke Hollywood.
FDA approves first treatment to grant infants protection against RSV
Beyfortus, an antibody from Sanofi and AstraZeneca, is given to babies ahead of their first RSV season.
The Businessmen Broke Hollywood
The Hollywood machine—from script writing, to shooting and production, to late-night talk-show PR—has officially ground to a halt.On Thursday, the actors went on strike. The 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, led by Fran Drescher, the fearless sitcom nanny, stopped working after talks with the studios collapsed. They join the ranks of the Writers Guild of America, whose members (myself included) have been on strike since May.Our two unions have not been on strike together since 1960.
A Voicebot Just Left Me Speechless
It’s not that hard to say my name, Saahil Desai. Saahil: rhymes with sawmill, or at least that gets you 90 percent there. Desai: like decide with the last bit chopped off. That’s really it.More often than not, however, my name gets butchered into a menagerie of gaffes and blunders. The most common one, Sa-heel, is at least an honest attempt—unlike its mutant twin, a monosyllabic mess that comes out sounding like seal. Others defy all possible logic.
Alabama Wants to Kill Jimi Barber
Last year, the state of Alabama made history by botching three consecutive executions in its death chamber. Two of the condemned men survived their own executions: Alan Miller and Kenneth Smith. Both were pierced repeatedly with needles in an attempt to set IV lines until the midnight expiry of their death warrants forced their executioners to halt further attempts to kill them.
Top U.N. Human Rights Official & Fmr. Swedish FM on Palestine, Sudan & U.S. Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
On Friday, July 14, Amy Goodman moderated a wide-ranging panel on human rights in Venice, Italy, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The panel’s speakers included United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström and Eamon Gilmore, the European Union special representative for human rights. They discussed the U.S.
“The Heat Will Kill You First”: Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
The world is in the grips of a dangerous heat wave that has sent temperatures skyrocketing to deadly levels throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Unless urgent action is taken to reduce carbon emissions, the United Nations says, Earth could pass a temperature threshold in the next decade when climate disasters are too extreme to adapt to.
I Have Cancer. I Can’t Put My Kids First Anymore.
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.In February, two months before my 40th birthday, my left breast became swollen and painful. I chalked it up to the catchall pile of indignities known as perimenopause. But March and April came and went, and my breast seemed worse. May arrived, and I scrambled to schedule a mammogram.
Birth control pills could soon be over the counter. What’s next?
The FDA on Thursday approved Opill, the first over-the-counter daily birth control pill.
FDA approves first over-the-counter birth control pill
Opill is a daily pill made by the company Perrigo.
A red state boosted public health funding by 1,500 percent. This is how they did it.
How careful messaging, a healthy budget and smart leadership boosted local public health funding in Indiana by 1,500 percent.
Iowa lawmakers approve ban on most abortions after about 6 weeks
Gov. Kim Reynolds immediately said she will sign the legislation.
Study shows methane leaks at drill sites can make natural gas operations ‘as bad as coal’
A new peer-reviewed paper to be published in Environmental Research Letters next week adds to the accumulation of studies demonstrating why our love affair with natural gas needs to be ended posthaste. (The study’s abstract can be read below.
GOP senator’s tantrum endangers military readiness and risks U.S. national security
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abortions became less accessible for millions of Americans in several states, the Pentagon enacted new policies to allow troops to access reproductive health care—including covering travel expenses for servicemembers who have to go out of state to obtain an abortion.
In response, Republican Sen.
Biden puts all his chips on the table with a push on ‘Bidenomics’
The push to own the economy, by literally branding it with the president’s name, is not without risk.
U.N. Warns Pandemic, Climate & Ukraine War Have Dramatically Increased World Hunger
The United Nations this week released its annual report on nutrition, finding that the pandemic, extreme weather shocks and the war in Ukraine have all contributed to food insecurity around the world — now higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials estimate that the world saw an increase of more than 100 million people facing hunger in 2022 compared to 2019.
What Is the Point of NATO? Historian Grey Anderson on How U.S. Has Used Alliance to Strengthen Power
This week’s NATO summit in Lithuania ended with the military alliance agreeing to extend membership to Ukraine at some point in the future but declining to give a firm timeline. Meanwhile, Sweden is set to become the newest member, bringing the alliance to 32 countries, after it started in 1949 with just 12 founding members.
“We Demand Respect”: Actors Join Writers on Strike, Grinding Film & TV Production to a Halt
Television and film actors are going on strike after a breakdown in negotiations between the SAG-AFTRA union and Hollywood studios. More than 160,000 members of the union are taking part in the first major actors’ strike since 1980. This also marks the first time since 1960 that actors and screenwriters have been on strike at the same time, with members of the Writers Guild of America on the picket lines since early May.
“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces nearly three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, an essential component in rechargeable batteries powering laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles. But those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.
Trump Cooks Up Defense For Hiring People He Later Deemed ‘Weak’ And ‘Incompetent’
Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo declared that Trump “didn’t drain the swamp” after he offered his reasoning for hiring people he “didn’t like” in his administration.
GOP Candidate Asa Hutchinson’s Call For ‘Respect’ At Pro-Trump Event Is Drowned In Boos
The audience chanted Trump’s name as the former Arkansas governor, who has been critical of the former president, made his case for 2024.
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Torches Sen. Ted Cruz’s ‘Barbie’ Problem
The former Biden White House press secretary called out the Texas Republican’s priorities.
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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Lauren Boebert filed articles of impeachment against Biden. That doesn’t mean he was impeached
CLAIM: President Joe Biden was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors in June 2023.
THE FACTS: Biden has not been impeached.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Steps Down As Leader Of Civil Rights Group
The activist and political leader said he’s resigning as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the Chicago-based civil rights group he founded in 1971.