Christine Blasey Ford Honors the First Gymnast to Speak Out Against Larry Nassar
Christine Blasey Ford testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018.Saul Loeb/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Christine Blasey Ford made one of her first public appearances since she testified against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearings to present the…
The Trump Administration’s Climate Report Left Out Reproductive Rights. Here’s What It Missed.
Angel Valentin/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The big question of climate change is no longer why it’s happening (humans have a wild fossil-fuel-burning habit) nor when it’s going to happen (it is happening). These…
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 Administration Just Made It Easier to Deport Survivors of Human Trafficking and Domestic Abuse
John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past two years, the Trump administration has made illegal immigration a top priority, but, much more quietly, it has also been making it increasingly difficult for immigrants to be in the US legally. Now, a small rule change is set to…
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…
Betsy DeVos Just Proposed Rules That Would Make Life Harder for Campus Sexual Assault Survivors
Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ever since Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with a men’s rights group last year to discuss campus sexual assault policies, advocates for student victims of sexual violence have feared she would change federal regulations to put the interests of accused abusers over those of survivors.…