The UAW Is Going After One of the Big Three’s Key Money Makers
A United Auto Workers members picket near a Stellantis parts-distribution center.Mike Stewart/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The United Auto Workers Union is ramping up its unprecedented strike against the nation’s three major automakers and hitting one company where it hurts: pickup trucks. On…
Sugarcane Burning Is a Plague on These Black Floridians
A sugar cane field burning near Canal Point, Florida. Friends of the Everglades This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Christine Louis-Jeune knew she was home when she saw ash falling from the sky and onto her windshield. She hadn’t been back to her central Florida hometown…
Nine Republicans are running for U.S. House speaker. Here’s your guide to the field.
U.S. House Republicans were meeting Monday night to hear from their latest candidates for speaker. Shown is the U.S. Capitol at night. Bill Dickinson/Getty Images WASHINGTON –– The nine Republican candidates to be speaker of the U.S. House were set to make their cases to their colleagues Monday evening, as the House Republican Conference restarted…
Georgia Supreme Court to issue ruling on state’s six-week abortion ban
Georgia Supreme Court justices listen to arguments in a case over whether the state’s six-week abortion ban should be considered void from the start since it was passed before Roe v. Wade was overturned. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder (file photo) Will the Georgia Supreme Court agree with a lower court’s ruling that said the state’s six-week…
In Coffee County, a push to move on from a 2020 election scandal
Coffee County’s election office has seen new voting equipment, new staff and even new office space since allies of former President Trump organized and carried out a plot to illegally copy the county’s voting data. Stephen Fowler/GPB It’s the middle of the afternoon on a Wednesday, and Coffee County elections supervisor Christy Nipper is calm…
Twenty-Three Journalists Have Been Killed Covering the Israel-Gaza War
Palestinians work to help victims amid debris following and apparent Israeli airstrike on a building in in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on October 22, 2023.Naaman Omar/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Roshdi Sarraj, a reporter who co-founded a Palestinian media company, was killed Sunday in…