This Single Ballot Measure Could Ban Both Fossil Fuels and Vaping
Bernd Thissen/picture alliance via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Sunshine State is no stranger to high drama come election season. This year, Florida is the place to watch if you’re curious how toxic algae has…
This Texas Republican Would Really Prefer You Don’t Ask Him About the Violence Against Women Act
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, speaks with reporters as he leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol.Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Violence Against Women Act, a landmark law passed by Congress in 1994 aimed at protecting women who are victims of domestic abuse and…
50 Republicans + 1 Democrat Are Voting for Brett Kavanaugh
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We’ve Got Another Essential Song for Your Feminist Rage Playlist
Dan Anderson Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Long week? For us too. The sheer misery of the ongoing Kavanaugh drama has just amplified the horrors of the Trump administration, and we needed a song that could channel that national feminist rage into something soulful, hopeful, and even constructively combative. We have all that for you and…
Joe Manchin’s Argument for Voting for Brett Kavanaugh Makes No Sense
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just seconds after Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced she would, in the end, support Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court—effectively assuring he will prevail in the final vote on Saturday—the last Democrat still on the fence, West…
Susan Collins Will Vote to Confirm Brett Kavanaugh
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Friday announced that she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, effectively sealing the deal for Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. In a speech on the Senate floor, Collins said that she believed that…