Argentina’s Senate Votes to Reject Legal Abortion
Supporters of legal abortion comfort each other after senators rejected the bill.Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a highly anticipated vote, Argentinian senators early Thursday rejected a bill that would have legalized abortion for pregnancies no further along than 14 weeks. The vote, which followed 16 hours of…
New York Just Became the First City to Give Uber Drivers a Minimum Wage
Taxi medallion owners and drivers at a March protest in front of New York City Hall . Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, the New York City Council passed a landmark set of bills aimed directly at Uber and other ride-hailing services that will force the companies…
Has DHS Given Up on Repealing DACA?
Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While I was catching up on some stuff I missed during my weekend dex haze, Steve Benen alerted me to the fact that a federal judge, once again, told the Department of Homeland Security that it couldn’t rescind DACA, the mini-DREAM…
New Study Shows Stereotypes About Online Dating Are True
takasuu/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You know the type: Those friends who think they’ve found the best way to game Tinder, insist wearing a dress instead of jeans will catch someone’s attention, or that the most fruitful way to find love is by going on the Bachelor. There is so much dating lore and…
Russians Have Penetrated Florida’s Election Systems, Senator Says
US Democratic Senator Bill Nelson speaks during a press conference in Miami in July. Giorgio Viera/EFE via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Intelligence officials have warned for months that Russia will seek to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, just as it did in 2016. On Wednesday, Democratic Sen.…
How Much Time Do Teenagers Spend Not Goofing Off?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Women do more household chores than men. But how about teenage girls? Here’s the New York Times: One recent analysis, for example, found that boys ages 15 to 19 do about half an hour of housework a day, and girls about 45 minutes. Although girls…