Project 2025 Aims to Kill Federal Subsidies for Carbon Removal Projects
A Chevron drilling rig designed to assist in carbon capture.Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over the past few years, the United States has become the go-to location for companies seeking to suck carbon dioxide out of the sky. There are a handful of demonstration-scale…
Harris pins blame for deaths of two pregnant women on Georgia’s strict abortion law, Trump
Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris condemned “Trump abortion bans” in Atlanta days after ProPublica linked two maternal deaths in 2022 to Georgia’s six-week abortion ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder Vice President Kamala Harris blasted the strict abortion laws that have passed…
Stories of pregnant women’s deaths after Georgia’s strict abortion ban reignite debate over law
Packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The deaths of two Georgia women have reignited the debate over the state’s abortion restrictions that took effect two years ago and put a new focus on an exception in the law that purports…
Federal Investigation: Disabled People Are Five Times More Likely to Experience Domestic Violence
Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Disabled people are five times more likely to experience domestic violence than non-disabled people, and make up a third of its victims, according to a new report published today by the federal Government Accountability Office. People…
Uncommitted Won’t Endorse Harris But Urges Voters to “Block Donald Trump”
Mother Jones illustration; Yuri Gripas/Pool/Cnp/CNP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Uncommitted movement announced on Thursday that it will not be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. The decision comes in response to Harris declining to break with the Biden administration over its response…
How Republicans Could Block a Democratic Victory in Georgia
An election worker examines a ballot during vote counting in the 2020 election at State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is no stranger to voter suppression in Georgia and she sees…