Fresh protests have hit Venezuela, triggered by a shortage of goods and the continuing rise in prices for basic food and medical supplies. Other protests on Monday were triggered by the arrest of around two dozen National Guardsman who reportedly tried to overthrow the president, according to the Associated Press. Fires were still smoldering around the capital […]
CBS has declined to air an ad about medical marijuana’s therapeutic properties during Super Bowl LIII next month. The network won’t miss the money, as someone else will surely pay the reported $5 million to occupy the same 30 seconds during the broadcast. And the medical marijuana venture capital firmwon’t really lose much publicity, since getting […]
President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans are rallying behind a bill to reopen the federal government that would provide temporary protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States by their parents as children in exchange for $5 billion to build a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who previously […]
Australia is in the midst of an unrelenting, record-smashing heat wave that has left temperature maps so red the country looks like it’s on fire. The country has hit highs exceeding 120°F (49°C) during the day. And New South Wales set a new record for all of Australia last week when nighttime temperatures never fell […]
The number of murders in Mexico rose by 33 percent in 2018, the second consecutive year in which the country has broken the record for its homicide rate as it continues its grim battle with cartel-related violence. According to figures released by the Interior Ministry on Sunday, Mexico recorded over 33,000 murders last year, surpassing […]
One of the Christian right’s top policy priorities is to effectively create two different codes of law in the United States. The first code, which applies to people who do not hold conservative religious views, is rigid and unmoving. The second code, which would apply primarily to Christian-identified conservatives, contains broad exceptions for people who […]
The Oscars are more fun this way, aren’t they? When there’s no obvious frontrunner for best picture, when a comic book blockbuster and a fourth-over remake of a musical — this time performed unironically, with no artifice — and a foreign-language Netflix film share a shot at the biggest prize of the night? The nominees for the 91st […]
President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani accidentally told a reporter there are “tapes” that prove the president did not tell Michael Cohen to lie under oath about the Trump Tower deal in Moscow. Giuliani immediately walked back the comments in his interview with the New Yorker, saying he didn’t mean to say there are […]
A Colorado lawmaker with a history of racially offensive behavior commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by claiming that white and black people were lynched “in nearly equal numbers” in the United States. State Rep. Lori Saine (R) delivered a speech on the Colorado House floor on Monday complaining that she was “barred from introducing a […]
The Supreme Court handed down a pair of orders on Tuesday that effectively reinstate the Trump administration’s ban on trans military service. The cases are Trump v. Karnoski and Trump v. Stockman. In both cases, a lower court halted the ban. Tuesday’s orders temporarily stay those lower court decisions while the cases make their way through the federal […]
In an ominous sign for potential victims of gun violence, the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, a challenge to New York City’s gun licensing regime. It’s the first Second Amendment case the Supreme Court will hear since 2010, and […]
Nurse Practitioner Mary Stark has performed countless vacuum aspiration procedures for Idaho patients who have miscarriages. Vacuum aspiration is basically, by another name, a suction abortion. Because of Idaho’s physician-only abortion law, Stark cannot perform a vacuum aspiration for patients who choose to end their pregnancies. “I could complete a procedure to empty out the […]