How One Company Is Making Millions Off Trump’s War on the Poor
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Renaud VigourtOne night last March, Sue Fredericks ran into trouble. She had been watching snow accumulate for hours from her post at a 24-hour gas station. Busy stretches on her overnight shift were rare, on account of the size of the town in which she…
A Republican Federal Judge Just Sided With Trump and Ruled That Obamacare Is Unconstitutional
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA) gestures during a news conference held by House Democrats condemning the Trump Administration’s targeting of the Affordable Care Act’s pre-existing conditions. Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in Texas issued a late Friday ruling finding that the entire Affordable…
Could the Trade War Truce With China Help Stem the Opioid Crisis?
President Donald Trump with China’s President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting at the G-20 Summit on SaturdayAP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Meeting with President Donald Trump at the G-20 summit on Saturday in Buenos Aires, President Xi Jinping of China agreed to classify the powerful opioid…
Scientists Are “Mortified” Over Claims That the First Gene-Edited Babies Are Here
Stockbyte/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Sunday, Chinese researcher He Jiankui posted a YouTube video in which he made a historic claim: The first-ever gene-edited babies were born a few weeks ago in China, “as healthy as any other babies,” he said. The babies, twin girls named Lulu and Nana,…
The Trump Official Who Failed to Reunify Dozens of Separated Children Is Getting a New Role
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chris BuzelliEvery Sunday, Scott Lloyd attends St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church in Front Royal, Virginia. Founded in honor of a fallen Confederate soldier, the red-brick building sits on Main Street in this picturesque town of 15,000 at the base of the Blue Ridge…
Donald Trump Has a Sneaky New Way To Help Religious Employers Deny Women Birth Control
areeya_ann/iStock/Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two years, the Trump administration has been trying to gut access to birth control coverage for women: It proposed rules that would allow almost any employer to claim moral or religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s mandate of…