Texas judge strikes down free HIV drugs, cancer screenings under Obamacare
The nationwide ruling holds that the health panel that decided what services insurers must cover is unconstitutional.
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Sex ed, birth control, Medicaid: Republicans’ ‘new pro-life agenda’
The fall of Roe has upended the traditional political battle lines.
West Virginia governor signs ban on gender-affirming care
At least 11 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
FDA approves first over-the-counter Narcan
Narcan can now be sold in gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores.
Dem AGs clash with Biden admin over abortion pill restrictions
The Democratic officials’ case raises the likelihood that rules around pills will go before the Supreme Court.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.
U.S. inflation eases but stays high, putting Fed in tough spot
The government said prices increased 0.4% last month, just below January’s 0.5% rise.
Biden on economy: ‘It’s understandable why people are just down’
“I can’t think of a time when there’s been greater uncertainty,” the president said.
Biden’s 2022 State of the Union report card: Where he delivered — and fell flat
The president promised a lot last year. Here’s how we graded him on some of those pledges.
Biden on robust jobs numbers: The ‘critics and cynics are wrong’
Noting the 3.4 percent jobless rate, the lowest since May 1969, the president said “the Biden economic play is working.
“Stop the Absurd Debate”: Parkland Father Calls for Nationwide Education Strike to Demand Gun Reform
In the wake of the mass shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday Republicans “want to see all the facts” before proposing any new gun legislation.
Meet the Nashville ER Doctor Who Joined 1,000+ Protesters at Tennessee Capitol Demanding Gun Control
More than a thousand students rallied at the Tennessee state Capitol Thursday to demand gun control, just days after a mass shooting at a Nashville Christian elementary school where three adults and three 9-year-olds were killed. Republicans hold a supermajority in Tennessee’s Legislature and have loosened gun restrictions. We speak with Dr. Katrina Green, an emergency physician in Nashville who has lost patients to gun violence and joined in Thursday’s protest.
Indicted: Trump Faces Criminal Charges in NY; Three Other Investigations into Ex-President Continue
In an unprecedented move, a Manhattan grand jury voted Thursday to indict former President Donald Trump for hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign to hide an alleged affair, making Trump the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges.
“The Tale” Filmmaker Jennifer Fox on Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse & Finally Naming Her Abuser
We speak with writer and filmmaker Jennifer Fox, whose 2018 movie The Tale dealt with childhood sexual abuse. She has now come forward to name her abuser. The film is a narrative memoir based in part on Fox’s own life experience about being abused by a coach as a young girl. While the main character is named Fox, the name of the abusive coach was fictionalized. Now Fox has revealed the man who abused her as Ted Nash, the legendary Olympic rower and coach who died in 2021.
Donald Trump Indictment Ends Decades Of Perceived Invincibility
The former president’s courtroom appearance will represent a reckoning for “Teflon Don,” who until now has skirted serious legal jeopardy despite decades of scrutiny.
This Under-The-Radar Wisconsin Race Has Big Implications For The State’s Future
Jodi Habush Sinykin, a Democratic state Senate candidate, warns that Wisconsin is at a “tipping point.
How Republicans Are Using The Nashville Shooting To Further Their Anti-Trans Agenda
Trans people aren’t just facing violent rhetoric but also legislation that would strip them of basic rights.
The Power of Low-Stakes Humor
This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.The internet was not exactly built to accommodate April Fools’ Day. As my colleague Megan Garber put it in 2015, our digital platforms don’t tend “to distinguish between stories and facts, between the earnest and the satirical.
Yachts Won’t Slow Down to Save a Nearly Extinct Whale
This article was originally published by Undark.Along the eastern coast of North America, North Atlantic right whales and boats navigate the same waters, which can get dicey for both. Fully grown, the whales can top out at more than 50 feet and weigh 140,000 pounds. A midsize, 58-foot-long pleasure yacht weighs about 80,000 pounds and can cost more than $1 million. “No mariner wants to collide with a whale,” says the retired Coast Guard officer Greg Reilly.
Prominent Republican Donor Convicted In Sex Trafficking Trial
Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, who gave more than $270,000 to GOP campaigns, was found guilty of enticing teenage girls with gifts and money in exchange for sex.
The Twitter I Love Doesn’t Exist Anymore
This is a sentimental story about Twitter, a little Twitterbilly elegy. I spilled tears, heavy Patsy Cline tears, for the platform for the first time a few weeks ago, during a walk with Amanda Guinzburg, a writer and photographer I’d long followed on Twitter for her excellent tweets about American politics and photos of libidinous flowers.
Trump’s Republican Rivals Are Missing an Obvious Opportunity
After his historic indictment was announced Thursday night, former President Donald Trump reacted with his characteristic cool and precision: “These Thugs and Radical Left Monsters have just INDICATED the 45th President of the United States of America.” Presumably this was a typo, and he meant INDICTED. But the immediate joining of arms around the martyr was indeed a perfect indication of precisely who the Republicans are right now.
The Throwback Hero That Video Games Needed
The “next-gen remake” is the latest and safest cash cow in video gaming. Take a hit title that came out a decade or more ago on a prior console, spiff it up with updated graphics, controls, and maybe even some new content, and sell it at full price to a nostalgic audience. Since its 2005 debut on the Nintendo GameCube, Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 has been lightly reconfigured for a dozen different devices.
Judy Blume Annihilates Book Ban Efforts With Scathing Takedown
“Protecting your children means educating them and arming them with knowledge,” said Blume.
Texas judge strikes down free HIV drugs, cancer screenings under Obamacare
The nationwide ruling holds that the health panel that decided what services insurers must cover is unconstitutional.
Sex ed, birth control, Medicaid: Republicans’ ‘new pro-life agenda’
The fall of Roe has upended the traditional political battle lines.
West Virginia governor signs ban on gender-affirming care
At least 11 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors.
FDA approves first over-the-counter Narcan
Narcan can now be sold in gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores.
Dem AGs clash with Biden admin over abortion pill restrictions
The Democratic officials’ case raises the likelihood that rules around pills will go before the Supreme Court.
Elizabeth Warren: Fed chair has failed at both his jobs
Jerome Powell “stepped up and took a flamethrower to the regulations,” the senator said.