On a Thursday two years ago today, at exactly 10:10 in the morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs, the landmark case overruling Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise —almost two months earlier, a leaked draft of …
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Nine Louisiana families of different faithssued the state’s education department and local school boards on Monday over a new state law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom. “Indeed, for nearly half a century, it has been well settled that the First Amendment forbids public schools …
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Sen. Lindsay Graham went on a fear-mongering rant about President Joe Biden’s actions to forgive student debt, calling the relief “beyond lawless and beyond dangerous.” The Biden-Harris administration has approved $167 billion in student debt as of the end of May, helping 4.75 million borrowers across the country. But Graham …
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A former Trump Organization vice president recalled a story of a time when Donald Trump once joked about Nazi “ovens” to Jewish executives in the room. Barbara Res served as lead engineer on the Trump Tower project and is author of Tower of Lies, a memoir about her 18 years …
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Donald Trump continued his stump on the campaign trail on Saturday ahead of his rematch with President Joe Biden in the first presidential debate of 2024 scheduled for Thursday. Trump hit his usual marks, from attacking migrants and border complaints to touting his role in erasing women’s reproductive rights by …
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Brooklyn’s Eastville Comedy Club is abuzz with banter ahead of a comedy show fundraiser for Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.). Ten minutes before the opening routine, the room is nearly full. The ethnically diverse, mixed-aged mass reflects the constituency that carried Bowman to a surprise 2020 win for the 16th district’s …
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Rep. Ronny Jackson, who served as Donald Trump‘s White House physician, recklessly speculated that President Joe Biden is using drugs to stay ‘alert’ and to help him ‘perform’ in the upcoming presidential debate. “I’m going to be demanding on behalf of many millions of concerned Americans right now that [Biden] …
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In response to a lawsuit by Rolling Stone and National Security Counselors, the Department of Justice has turned over two tranches of FBI documents related to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Rolling Stone’s Freedom of Information Act request, filed hours after the announcement of his death in November 2023, …
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This week at a resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, delegates at the Republican Oarty convention quietly approved a platform with a retooled “Right to Life” plank. Journalists were barred from the proceedings, but reporter Logan Finney of Idaho Reports obtained the language ahead of the event and, reading it, it’s …
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The conservative billionaire Timothy Mellon donated $50 million to a super PAC supporting Donald Trump on May 31, the day after the former president was convicted in his New York hush money trial. Mellon has now given a total of $75 million to support the pro-Trump super PAC this election …
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