A press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week offered a revealing window into his advisers’ thinking about how he might overcome widespread discontent with his performance to win a second term next year. While the release focused mostly on portraying former President Donald Trump as a threat to legal abortion, the…
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Saint Joseph’s is sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy, a 192-year-old society of nuns that has accused the firearms industry of “profiting from these killings.” Toward the end of the vigil, a…
Elon Musk has announced that “all revenue from advertising & subscriptions associated with the war in Gaza” will go toward hospitals and the Red Cross in both Israel and Gaza. That’s quite the announcement from the world’s richest man. X Corp will be donating all revenue from advertising & subscriptions associated with the war in…
Updated at 8:40 p.m. ET on November 22, 2023 Like many politicians, Representative Dean Phillips likes to look people in the eye. And because he’s a politician, Phillips can glean things, just as President George W. Bush did when he peered into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and saw his soul. “I’ve looked Benjamin Netanyahu in the…
With just 12 legislative days scheduled the rest of the year, appropriations bills they can’t pass, a simmering civil war over the last continuing resolution to fund the government, and two more funding deadlines looming, House Republicans are laser-focused on one thing: impeaching President Joe Biden. Leadership wants to make a decision on going forward…
The former Thelma And Louise star Susan Sarandon has been dropped by her A-list Hollywood talent agency and been hit with some serious backlash after she made anti-semitic comments at a pro-Palestinian rant in New York City last Friday. Susan Sarandon has been dropped by her talent agency UTA after being vocal about the ongoing genocide…
By MoveOn. Friday, November 17 2023 A parent and child talk on their living room couch. As Thanksgiving approaches, you may start hearing questions and commentary about the history of the holiday—especially from kids—that aren’t rooted in the facts. The often-told story of Thanksgiving is a myth of harmony and an erasure of the genocide…
Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida has become the center of book-banning in the United States, overtaking Texas, the former leading state in that category. Pop star Pink is using her Florida concert dates to fight that. Pink teamed up with anti-censorship nonprofit PEN America to distribute thousands of copies of banned-in-Florida books at her…
Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell said she was more scared during the recent pro-Palestinian protest on Capitol Hill than she was during the January 6 protests and Capitol riot. On Wednesday night, hundreds of protesters descended on the southern end of Capitol Hill where the Democratic National Committee headquarters sits. The protest quickly turned violent and…
Mike Johnson now knows what Kevin McCarthy was dealing with. At the new speaker’s behest, House Republicans today relied on Democratic votes to avert a government shutdown by passing legislation that contains neither budget cuts nor conservative policy priorities. The bill was a near replica of the funding measure that McCarthy pushed through the House…
