Politics

DONBAS, Ukraine — Just outside the city limits of Slovyansk, an Eastern Ukrainian city not far from the frontlines, the driver in the lead van switches on the hazard lights and pulls over. “They’re going to put on their [bulletproof] vests,” says Ihor Koval, pulling in behind them. Ihor is …

Five Republican senators have urged the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board to update its ratings for certain children’s shows to include warnings about what they describe as “disturbing” LGBTQ content, namely “irreversible and harmful experimental treatments for mental disorders like gender dysphoria.” Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Kevin …

Karine Jean-Pierre will replace Jen Psaki as White House press secretary when Psaki leaves the post next week, President Biden announced on Thursday. Jean-Pierre will be the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve in the role — one of the most prominent positions at the White …

Once-loyal deputies continue to turn on Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. A third Oath Keepers militiaman entered a guilty plea on Wednesday for participating in a “seditious conspiracy” to keep Donald Trump in office by use of force — a plot allegedly masterminded by Rhodes. William Todd Wilson, 45, is …

The Jan. 6 committee has a subpoena for the former head of the pro-MAGA social network Parler who claims he was fired from the company in 2021 in part because of his push to remove extremists from the platform, according to two sources familiar with the matter. John Matze, the …

Conservative Supreme Court justices have a plan to overturn Roe v. Wade, and Republican lawmakers are ready for it. In thirteen states, there are so-called “trigger laws” that would immediately ban all, or almost all, abortions if the 1973 ruling is overturned. And a total of 23 states have anti-abortion …

Republicans — the party that decided it was pretty much fine that a violent mob stormed the Capitol to try to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss — are clutching all of their pearls over the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that overturns Roe v. Wade. Indeed, in …

Sen. Susan Collins is shocked, stunned, and astounded that two conservative, Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices may have deceived her regarding their position on abortion rights. According to a reported draft majority opinion leaked to Politico, both Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh have voted to overturn established precedent protecting …

Today, abortion is still legal everywhere in the country. However, it appears that won’t be true for long. Last night, Politico published an explosive leak of the draft opinion of Dobbs v. Jackson Woman’s Health, the abortion case before the Supreme Court this term. This virtually unprecedented publication of a …

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had just returned home late last night when she saw the report of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court that, if unchanged, would fully overturn federal abortion protections. She began reading the news around the time her phone started flooding with texts. “I’m vacillating between depression …