In the Middle of an HIV Crisis, West Virginia Advances New Limits to Clean Needle Access
A needle disposal box in Huntington, West Virginia.Ricky Carioti/Washington Post via Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.West Virginia, long an epicenter of the national opioid epidemic, is currently in the middle of an HIV outbreak.…
Don’t Look Now, But Over a Third of People in the US Have Gotten a Coronavirus Shot
Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.At this point, it’s kind of hard to absorb good news about the pandemic. But here is some to brighten your weekend: More than one-third of all…
GOP Donors Flock to Mar-a-Lago to Hear Trump Lie About the 2020 Election
Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinel via Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Over the weekend, some of the Republican party’s biggest financial supporters gathered at a Florida Four Seasons resort for a donor retreat, hobnobbing with…
Maryland Legislators Override a Veto to Usher in Sweeping Police Reform
Baltimore police face protestors after Freddie Gray’s 2015 death.Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun/Tribune via Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In Minnesota, Derek Chauvin’s trial in the killing of George Floyd is on the verge of its third…
“Someone Decided It Was Okay to Poison Us”
A well and pump jack in Los Angeles County.(Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the…
Video: Cops Draw Guns on a Black Army Officer, Pepper Spray Him, Force Him to the Ground
Caron Nazario, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, after he was pepper-sprayed by police during a traffic stop in Windsor, Virginia, on Dec. 20, 2020, from newly released body cam video. Windsor Police via AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter…