Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) said Friday that “women will die” if the controversial 1864 law on abortion in the state isn’t repealed. “[They] need to repeal this law,” Hobbs said in an interview on ABC’s “The View,” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “It is the right thing to do for Arizonans. I know...
or a ban on the manufacture and sale of engineered stone. If California is not willing or instantly able to require employers to provide adequate protection, it should consider making it illegal to produce countertops that expose workers to dangerous levels of silica dust.
The Biden administration on Friday finalized lightbulb efficiency rules first proposed in late 2022. The final rule will more than double the required efficiency level for the most common lightbulbs, from 45 lumens (the unit of measurement for light intensity) per watt to over 120 lumens per watt The rule won praise from energy efficiency...
Policymakers should make it easier for students and their families to understand college costs and make more informed decisions.
A new study shows that employers are less likely to call back applicants with Black-sounding names than those with white-sounding ones. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago recently filed 83,000 fake job applications for 11,000 entry-level positions at multiple Fortune 500 companies with names like Brad, Greg, Darnell, Lamar,...
President Biden on Friday warned about the “extreme voices” in the country he said are targeting Black Americans. During virtual remarks at the National Action Network Convention, the president said there are threats to turn back the clock on civil rights. “There are real threats we face. The more extreme voices out there who simply...
Hard-line conservatives are turning up the heat on their GOP colleagues who voted Friday to kill a proposed warrant requirement for domestic communications caught up in foreign surveillance operations. That provision — offered as an amendment to a larger bill renewing a key section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — went down on the...
President Biden warned Friday that the expected attack Iran is planning on Israel could happen soon. When asked about how imminent the attack on Israel may be, Biden said he didn’t want to get into classified information and added his “expectation is sooner than later.” He also replied “don’t” when asked for his message to...
Serious injuries have been reported after a vehicle crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) office. A “commercial vehicle” ran into the department’s office in Brenham, according to a Friday post by the Texas DPS’s Southeast Region on the social platform X. The post also said there were “are reports of multiple serious...
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West described the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel as a "counter-terrorist" response during a Thursday interview. West and Melina Abdullah, his recently-announced running mate, did not criticize the Palestinian militant group for its actions in the ongoing war and declined to condemn the Oct. 7 attack. "There's no doubt...
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Independent presidential candidate Cornel West’s running mate, Melina Abdullah, is defending a statement in which she said police were the same as the KKK. Abdullah, named this week as West's vice presidential candidate, posted on X, then Twitter, in 2015 that “the KKK, the police, and government officials are one in the same.” She also...
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) unveiled a resolution Friday demanding “equal educational opportunity, basic civil rights protections, and freedom from erasure” for LGBTQ students. The resolution, which has 17 Democratic co-sponsors, supports the objectives of the Rise Up for LGBTQI+ Youth in Schools Initiative, which advocates for LGBTQ-inclusive education policies and curriculum. “As...
Former President Trump on Friday urged Arizona lawmakers to act "as fast as possible" to adjust the state's abortion policy after a state Supreme Court ruling upheld an 1864 law and made performing the procedure a felony. The comments marked the latest fallout of the decision, which has left Republicans scrambling to respond as Democrats relentlessly...
Vice President Harris is making a campaign appearance Friday afternoon in Tucson, Ariz., to address recent actions in the state that would ban most abortions. Harris has taken the lead in White House advocacy of women’s health issues, and the Biden administration has made restoring nationwide access to abortion a priority in its campaign for...
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) paid for President Biden’s legal fees surrounding the investigation into his handling of classified documents even as his own campaign railed against former President Trump for using campaign donations to pay for similar services. Axios first reported that Biden used campaign donations for the fees, citing two people familiar with...
Small structural changes can improve the Congress’s understanding of cost estimates and lower the barriers to enacting legislation that will improve the health of all who live in the United States.
A Boeing whistleblower and a panel of aviation experts will testify at Senate committee hearings next week to discuss safety and quality concerns regarding the U.S. aviation company's jets. The Senate Commerce Committee will bring in three experts, some of whom were involved in a February report that criticized Boeing’s safety culture as “inadequate and...
Robert MacNeil, the longtime broadcast journalist and co-anchor of "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report," died Friday. He was 93. MacNeil was an NBC News reporter in Dallas on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. He also worked for the BBC before joining PBS for the bulk of his career. MacNeil's reporting on the Watergate scandal of the...
Nearly a quarter of adults who said they were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage in the past year since states started resuming eligibility checks remain uninsured, according to a survey released Friday by KFF. The survey is the first to look at health coverage among adults who had Medicaid coverage in early 2023, just before states...
The system used to determine who will be on the ballot has spoken, no matter how flawed such a system may be.
Vice President Harris is going live on late-night — and sitting down with one of former President Trump's favorite TV host targets — with an appearance next week on Jimmy Kimmel's ABC show. The VP is booked as a guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Tuesday, ITK has confirmed. The interview with Kimmel will mark...
This case began as a result of what can only be described as extortion.
The Treasury Department announced Friday it had issued sanctions against a Hamas spokesperson and leaders of the group’s drone unit. The department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it was taking action to target Hamas leaders based in Gaza and Lebanon who oversee the cyber and unmanned aerial vehicle operations. The European Union is...
First lady Jill Biden on Friday decried former President Trump as a "bully" and a threat to gains for the LGBTQ community if he is reelected in November. The first lady spoke at the Human Rights Campaign’s “Equality in Action” gathering in Virginia, where she highlighted progress for the LGBTQ community during the Biden administration...
