State of the Union Liveblogging – 2018 Edition
Congresswomen prepare for the 2018 SOTU by wearing black. Just kidding. They’re really doing it to honor Recy Taylor, a black woman who was gang-raped in 1944 by six white men who admitted what they had done. They were never even charged with a crime.Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe…
Trump’s First State of the Union
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Death During Childbirth Has More Than Doubled in the Past 30 Years
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This chart shows the rate of women who die in childbirth or, more generally, of pregnancy-related complications: Here is the same chart for the United States. Due to differences in methodology, you can’t directly compare the raw numbers for Europe and the US. But you…
The Trump Administration Let a Russian Spy Chief Visit the US— Even Though He Was Legally Barred
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Chief Sergey Naryshkin attends a meeting of the Russian Security Council at the Kremlin on September 15, 2017.Alexei Druzhinin/TASS via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration allowed the head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, Sergey Naryshkin, to visit the United State last week,…
Scott Pruitt Went to the Senate and Was Reminded of the Time He Said Trump Would Be Worse Than Obama
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt testified for more than two hours before the Senate Environment and Public Works committee about his first year on the job. While Senate Republicans such as Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) gave him credit for helping create jobs by…
A Dictionary of the Immigration Codewords Trump Will Use in His State of the Union
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has boiled his immigration agenda down to four words: lottery, chain, merit, and wall. In his first State of the Union address, Trump is likely to argue that each of those four pillars should be part of any deal…