This Map Depicts Abortion Access Across America and It’s Really Bleak
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It’s not just rural women who must travel long distances to get an abortion. Researchers mapped out 780 abortion facilities across America in a new study out Monday and found that 27 major cities are 100 miles or more from their nearest abortion provider. The…
A Searing Memoir Recalls How Syria’s Civil War Tore Apart Three Friends
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brothers of the Gun opens in 2011 at the eruption of Syria’s Arab Spring. Marwan Hisham and his close friends Nael and Tareq are chanting at their first protest against the dictator Bashar al-Assad in the streets of their hometown, Raqqa. Their faces are wrapped…
Gina Haspel, Trump’s Nominee to Head the CIA, Won’t Say If Torture Is Immoral
CIA nominee Gina Haspel is sworn in during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gina Haspel, the acting head of the CIA and President Donald Trump’s nominee to become its next director, repeatedly…
Kirsten Gillibrand Takes Aim at ICE After an Arrest at a New York Dairy Farm
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Things have gone sour for New York’s dairy industry, the third-largest of any US state. Years of low milk prices have led to steady stream of farm closings and farmer suicides. The industry’s workforce, which includes large numbers of immigrants, faces low wages, long hours, and high…
An Appeals Court Just Thwarted Trump’s Efforts to Punish Sanctuary Cities
An immigration protest outside the U.S. Capitol last month.Ting Shen/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to issue a national injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to deny federal funding to sanctuary cities. The three-judge panel sided with…
Trump’s War on Data Could Quietly Erase LGBT Crime Victims
Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Justice is looking to stop asking 16- and 17-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey. Critics say the move is a way for legislators to leave LGBT teens out of policy decisions. The twice-a-year national…