More than one in five U.S. adults who do not have a car and have limited access to public transit said in a recent poll they have forgone needed health care in the past year. The poll from the Urban Institute found that 21 percent of those without access to a car or reliable public...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the court’s majority opinion in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade last year, said he has a “pretty good idea” of the identity of the person who leaked the draft ruling. Alito said in an interview with two Wall Street Journal opinion writers that the leak of...
Republican legislators in Kansas on Thursday enacted what LGBTQ rights groups have characterized as one of the most sweeping and restrictive transgender bathroom bills in U.S. history, overriding Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the measure. The Kansas House voted 84-40 Thursday to override Kelly’s veto of Senate Bill 180, which defines sex in state law...
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) has dropped the bachelor’s degree requirements for staff members in her office, following similar steps from several governors who have lifted the requirements for state government employees. “No career trajectory should be defined by a piece of paper — it should be determined by work ethic, life experience and ability to...
A Democratic Arizona state representative apologized on Wednesday after she was caught hiding Bibles in the state Capitol. “The intent was never to be destructive, to never desecrate or to offend,” state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton (D-Tucson) said from the Arizona House floor. Security camera footage from the lawmakers’ lounge shows Stahl Hamilton hiding Bibles...
The parents of a man killed by U.S. Park Police in Northern Virginia in 2017 will donate their $5 million civil settlement to causes opposing qualified immunity for police, they said Friday. Bijan Ghaisar was shot and killed by two U.S. Park Police officers in Fairfax County, Va., after he began driving away from the...
Abortion access has been a patchwork of policies across the U.S. since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. New restrictions are taking effect in some states, while others are increasingly taking actions to strengthen access. Here's some of what's happened this week. North Dakota bans almost all abortions Republican Gov. Doug Burgum...
ExxonMobil recorded its highest-ever earnings in the first three months of 2023. The company announced on Friday that it made $11.4 billion between January and March, more than double its $5.5 billion profits from January through March of 2022. Still, it's lower than the profits the company reported last quarter, when it made about $12.8...
Blanket anti-China measures and messaging are harming American communities.
A woman who served time in prison for her involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection embraced former President Trump at a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Thursday before later saying that former Vice President Mike Pence and "every single" member of Congress who certified the 2020 election should be executed. After QAnon supporter Micki...
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney broke her weeks-long silence on social media on Thursday, following the right-wing backlash over her recent partnership with Bud Light. “I’ve been offline for a few weeks, and a lot has been said about me,” Mulvaney said in a video posted to Instagram and TikTok. “It was so loud that I...
The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday overruled its previous decision that struck down the state’s GOP-drawn voting maps, finding that claims of partisan gerrymandering are political questions that cannot be resolved by the state’s courts. The 5-2 party-line vote dismisses the underlying lawsuit that led to a sweeping election law clash at the U.S....
Romance novelist Nora Roberts has been caught up in the conservative effort to ban books from Florida schools, an action she describes as "shocking." Eight of her books were removed from school library shelves in Martin County, Fla., following a complaint. “All of it is shocking,” Roberts told The Washington Post. “If you don’t want...
The White House announced Friday that President Biden will commute the sentences of 31 nonviolent drug offenders, alongside the launch of a new administration strategy aimed to improve rehabilitation in jails and prisons. The 31 Americans serving sentences for nonviolent drug offenses are all on home confinement, a White House official said, adding they have...
Times — and babies — they are a-changin’: The Congressional Dads Caucus is urging the Capitol to install more diaper changing tables in bathrooms across House office buildings. The issue, the caucus said in a Friday letter to the House Administration Committee, was first brought to the group’s attention by constituents and visitors to the...
A second firm hired by the Trump campaign to investigate fraud in the 2020 election said all of Trump’s fraud claims were false, the firm’s founder told The Washington Post The Trump campaign hired Simpatico Software Systems and its founder, Ken Block, to investigate fraud claims all over the country after the 2020 election. “No...
Journalists, politicians and technology leaders kicked off White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner weekend with "Bytes & Bylines" Thursday evening in Washington. The event — co-hosted by Allen Gannett, Eric Kuhn, Susanna Quinn, Sarah Kate Ellis, Shua Goodwin and Adam Rathe — returned to the Irish ambassador's residence on Embassy Row this year. Ambassador Geraldine...
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which provides public transportation services for millions of riders in the NYC metro area each day, has ended its real-time service alerts on Twitter, an agency official said in a statement Thursday night.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is on Friday giving a weekly press conference. For the past week, the majority Republican caucus has drawn most of the attention on the House floor, as the Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) successfully wrangled the votes needed for a budget proposal with the needed self-imposed spending limits to...
The American people have shown time and time again that they are capable of extraordinary generosity, compassion, and leadership. In few places is this more evident than in our efforts to combat HIV/AIDS through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. President George W. Bush launched PEPFAR in his State of the...
The largest payday ever awarded during a regular-season game of “Jeopardy!” is $131,127. But that's nowhere near the maximum a contestant could theoretically win.
ABC News says it edited an interview with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to exclude false claims he had made about coronavirus vaccines. “We should note that during our conversation, Kennedy made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines,” ABC News Live anchor Linsey Davis said during a report on Kennedy Jr.'s recent presidential bid announcement. "We've used...
A six-figure salary used to mean you’d made it. And yet, the latest data shows that more than eight million American workers who earn $100,000 a year are now living paycheck to paycheck, as rising inflation and hefty taxation take their toll on take-home. In March, US inflation sat at 4.98 percent, a palpable rise...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Congress may intervene if a federal district court in Texas does not implement reforms to prevent judge shopping. In a Thursday letter to David Godbey, chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Schumer took aim at how plaintiffs can leverage the district’s...
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hit Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over his ongoing feud with Disney on Thursday, suggesting that the governor “sit down and negotiate” with the company. “I’d give him the same advice I gave President Biden,” McCarthy told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Thursday. “Why wouldn’t you sit down and negotiate and talk....
