Politics

In September 2020, a powerful tech executive named Pat Gelsinger says he was slapped in the face by reality. Sheltering at home in California with his family, Gelsinger watched a nearby wildfire spew smoke and ash and turn the sky orange. Never before had society experienced crises at this scale, …

A Portland cop who chased down and beat a protest medic, in one of the most harrowing incidents of police violence from the city’s Black Lives Matter protests last year, will not face criminal charges. The decision — announced in a news dump last Friday, prior to the three-day Labor …

There were still 27 patients left in the waiting room at Whole Woman’s Health, an independent abortion provider in Fort Worth, at 10 p.m. on Augut 31 — two hours before most abortions would effectively be banned in the state of Texas. Marva Sadler, director of clinical services for the …

When thousands of Florida seniors were waiting in long lines for a Covid-19 vaccine this past January, Fox News and Gov. Ron DeSantis were plotting to broadcast a public vaccination event exclusively on the network in order to boost the governor’s image. And according to an exposé by the Tampa …

Conservative radio host Phil Valentine spent months preaching vaccine skepticism to his followers in Nashville. It seems like many of them listened. Tennessee has experienced a dramatic spike in the Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant has swept the nation, with the case rate ballooning over 220 percent over the …

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said he is “deeply concerned” about unvaccinated people, including children, as some communities are seeing rising Covid-19 rates. During a Sunday appearance on ABC’s This Week,Murthy first praised the progress the country has made in vaccinating millions of Americans. He also warned that we will see …

WASHINGTON — About a month ago, a group of Democratic politicians from Texas fled their state in a last-ditch move to stop a voter-suppression bill. They came to Washington, D.C., to plead for help from Congress to protect the right to the vote. On one of their final days in …

On the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass gun reform and announced that he will designate the club as a national memorial. “Five years ago today in Orlando in the middle of pride month, our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting …

The Biden administration will act to strengthen U.S. supply chains on critical goods, remedying disruptions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and making supply chains more secure. In February, Biden issued an executive order for a 100-day review, directing cabinet members to have their departments identify vulnerabilities in key sectors: semiconductor …

CNN has fired former Republican Senator Rick Santorum over racist and false remarks he made weeks ago about Native Americans. The Huffington Post broke the news Saturday, citing a senior executive at the network. CNN has since confirmed the report. While speaking at an event organized by Young America’s Foundation …