2024年12月21日 · Another common type of anti-trans legislation that is common is sports bans.Many bills aim to expand existing restrictions to even broader contexts. In Texas, one proposed bill seeks to deny private sporting events access to the state’s Events Trust Fund — a source of professional funding for major sporting events — if they allow trans athletes to compete.

2024年11月19日 · Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP (sometimes referred to as food stamps) equaling the amount necessary to cover that budget shortfall would affect around 70 million Americans with lower incomes, according to the report by the Post, which cited anonymous sources with knowledge of the discussions.. Nothing has been finalized, the Post emphasized, but the discussions indicate a willingness by many in the ...

2025年1月6日 · “The COVID pandemic is still ongoing. It’s still dangerous. … As this new administration comes about, everyone in public health and in public health communication has to be just exceedingly clear” that COVID is still a threat, said Yale School of Public Health biostatistician Jeffrey Townsend, speaking to The Guardian about the rising rates. ...

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2021年10月20日 · The attacks waged against everything deemed “critical race theory” constitute a new form of McCarthyism that spreads fear of a future in which Black professors may again be labeled by the state as political dissidents and left to the whims of a new, updated House Un-American Activities Committee.

2024年11月20日 · Chief among the president-elect’s controversial picks is former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was nominated for attorney general despite being investigated by the Justice Department and the House Ethics Committee over allegations that he paid to have sex with a 17-year-old girl, which he denies. Trump also chose former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of ...

2024年11月22日 · Grab a book instead of my phone had been my mantra since November 5 as I sought to protect myself from the despair of political doomscrolling. Since then, I finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I’m now halfway through East of Eden by John Steinbeck and have almost finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird to my 11-year-old daughter. I hadn’t been ready to accept the reality of another ...

2024年11月7日 · “Sensible, inevitable and unfortunate,” Rosenberg said. Smith’s office charged Trump in two separate cases. In one, Smith accused Trump of illegally removing thousands of government documents, including hundreds of classified materials, from the White House when he left office in 2021, hoarding dozens of boxes of documents at unsecured locations in his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach ...

2021年11月30日 · “Donald, in fact, asked through his lawyers if he could file financial disclosures without signing under penalty of perjury. He was told, no, you have to sign under penalty of perjury,” Johnston said during the interview. A significant amount of the $1.7 billion that the Trump Organization made in those four years came from American taxpayers.

2024年12月10日 · The proportion of Americans who say that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure health care coverage for all has reached a nearly two-decade high, new polling finds.