Women Who Face Prosecution for Self-Inducing an Abortion Finally Have a Number to Call
Mixmike/iStock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During his campaign for president, Donald Trump told voters he believed that women who end their pregnancies should face “some form of punishment.” He soon walked back his remarks, but the statement, along with his promise (since fulfilled) to put anti-abortion justices on the…
Trump Says Bombs Are Bad, But Also So Is The Media
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hours after explosive devices were sent to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and CNN, President Trump told a crowd in Mosinee, Wisconsin that bombs are bad, but so is the media. “Any acts or threats of political violence are an attack on our democracy itself,” the…
A Bitterly Divided Senate Elevates Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Senate today voted 50 to 48 to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, replacing retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. The closeness of his confirmation vote is unprecedented. Kavanaugh won even fewer ayes than Justice Clarence…
Elizabeth Warren Says She Might Run for President in 2020
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) inched closer to a possible 2020 presidential campaign on Saturday. Speaking to a packed town hall in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Warren promised to “take a hard look” at the race after the midterm elections, according to…
The Russian Hacking of 2016 Was Just a Taste. Here’s What We Could Be In For.
Adam Vieyra; Zocha_K/Getty; MLADN61_Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Oleh Derevianko was on the road to his parents’ village in Ukraine on a bright June day in 2017 when he got a call from the CEO of a telecommunications company. Computer systems were failing at Oschadbank, one of the largest…
Here’s What Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Talk About When No One Else Is Listening
Metzel Mikhail/TASS via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What do President Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin talk about during their occasional phone calls? According to a sobering piece from the Washington Post, it’s exactly what you’d expect—fake news, the deep state, and…friendship: Some White House officials…