GOP Senators Representing a Minority of Americans Are Preventing a Fair Impeachment Trial
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined from left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 10, 2019. J. Scott Applewhite/AP On Tuesday, senators representing 153 million Americans outvoted senators representing 168 million Americans. A majority of the US public supports President…
Fox News Really Doesn’t Want You to Tune Into Trump’s Impeachment Trial
At around 2 a.m. ET, after voting down all 11 Democratic amendments that would have permitted new documents and witness testimony into the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell finally adjourned the chamber for the evening. It had been an excruciating, marathon day, one that appeared to fit into…
Immigrant Kids Were Restrained to Chairs With Bags Over Their Heads at a Juvenile Hall in Virginia
An 18-year-old Honduran who said he suffered abuse inside a Virginia immigration detention facility stands in front of a window in San Francisco. Eric Risberg, File/AP Antonio was tired of people calling him names. Staff members at the Virginia juvenile hall where he was held would call him pendejo and “onion head,” he said. After…
The Price of America’s Inability to Track Child Deaths from Abuse and Neglect? Sometimes, More Lives.
Imgorthand/Getty This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Experts have long suspected that the United States badly undercounts the number of children who die from abuse and neglect. The voluntary…
Saved at Sea, a Family of Nurses Reunite 4 Decades Later With Their Rescuers
Thao Nguyen and Chip Reichert reunite almost 40 years after a rescue in the South China Sea.WGN-TV Welcome to Recharge, a weekly newsletter full of stories that will energize your inner hellraiser. See more editions and sign up here. In 1981, the USS John Young spotted a motorless fishing boat filled with people in the…
On the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, States Are Scrambling to Preserve It
Activists protest abortion bans in the Utah State Capitol Rotunda on May 21, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Rick Bowmer/AP On this day in 1973, the Supreme Court issued a decision that enshrined the constitutional right to an abortion in the landmark case Roe v. Wade. But with mounting attacks on abortion rights and the most…