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Republicans are working on a mass rebranding following a devastating ruling from the Alabama Supreme Court that effectively stalled in vitro fertilization across the state. The instant backlash to the decision has led to droves of GOP lawmakers to issue statements in which they claim to be champions of the procedure—despite the fact that many of them had supported a bill to ban the practice just three years ago.

Donald Trump Jr. managed to get even more crass over the weekend while leveling a new attack on Joe Biden’s age.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel announced Monday that she will step down on March 8, ending a months-long standoff with Donald Trump over his demands for total loyalty.

Self-identified Nazis were at CPAC—and for all of the event leadership’s political waffling, NBC News had the receipts to prove it.

Charleston on Saturday was a very different place from Rock Hill, where Donald Trump had held his election rally the day before. It was genteel and chic, palm trees swaying over the boutique stores and cocktail bars of the historic downtown, the gowned and suited guests at The Charleston Place Hotel seemingly unconcerned with mundane matters like elections. On the second floor of the hotel, staffers for Nikki Haley, former governor of the state, Trump’s appointee as ambassador to the United Nations in 2017... Читать дальше...

The Michigan primary is Tuesday, and there won’t be much drama as far as who the winners, on either side, will be—Joe Biden and Donald Trump are locks. But there is something brewing on the Democratic side that could prove to be consequential. It’s not who’s on the ballot: Biden is, of course, sharing it along with Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips. Marianne Williamson will be on it as well because  she qualified for a ballot line before she dropped out of the race.

Rodrigo has spent the last three days lying to his family about his absence. Nights spent on buses heading north, bribes paid to slide through checkpoints, his few belongings left behind or discarded—it was all to reach this moment. The teenager in ripped jeans and tennis shoes mounts the dirt plateau that marks the edge of Ciudad Juárez, nearly 2,000 miles away from his home in San Marcos, Guatemala. A current of wind catches the corner of his jacket, blowing dust down to the riverbank and clouding the thin chain of migrants below. Читать дальше...

Hardly any plastics can be recycled. You’d be forgiven for not knowing that, given how much messaging Americans receive about the convenience of recycling old bottles and food containers—from the weekly curbside collections to the “chasing arrows” markings on food and beverage packaging. But here’s the reality: Between 1990 and 2015, some 90 percent of plastics either ended up in a landfill, were burned, or leaked into the environment. Another recent study estimates that just 5 to 6 percent are successfully recycled. Читать дальше...

I have never watched a stand-up comedy set without crying. Sometimes, it’s organic. The rhythm, the pace, the precision of a good stand-up can make me lose control of my face. My cheeks are sore, and tears stream from my eyes. This, I imagine, is a great compliment to a comedian, to see an audience member convulsively weeping with pleasure and enjoyment. The truth of it is that I will do this whether the jokes are funny or not.

For the first time in months, a pair of new polls has found that election-denier Kari Lake is trailing in the Arizona Senate race to the Democratic candidate, Representative Ruben Gallego. But she remains a MAGA celebrity phenomenon who cannot be counted out, making this race highly unpredictable with independent Kyrsten Sinema also in the mix. So we chatted with Gallego about how he hopes to defeat Lake and Sinema, why Democrats should level with voters about the border, and what’s really driving... Читать дальше...