The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal from Pennsylvania students challenging their school’s policy of allowing certain transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their gender identity, leaving the policy intact. The four students and some of their parents, who are not named in the case, claimed that the […]
Ava DuVernay criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for his “violent rhetoric” surrounding “tough on crime” measures in the ’90s that have disproportionately affected black communities. The director was responding to a tweet from Trump criticizing 2020 presidential candidates who had any association with the 1994 Crime Bill, which former President Bill Clinton has since apologized for signing into […]
The sweeping tax law Republicans enacted in late 2017 is definitely not paying for itself and has not significantly boosted the economy or increased wages, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service said in a report. But in line with what critics cautioned, the measure triggered a wave of corporate stock buybacks that benefited investors more than […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday voted 7-2 to uphold a 2016 Indiana abortion law requiring fetal remains be buried or cremated. The court also refused to hear a question regarding the state’s attempt to ban abortions based on a fetus’s race, disability or gender. A lower court’s decision striking down the controversial measure will remain in […]
Democrats in Illinois advanced new legislation Sunday that would further protect women’s rights to reproductive health, a measure advocates say grew from the spate of restrictive, anti-abortion laws that have been passed around the country in recent months. Click Here: toulon rugby shop melbourne An Illinois House committee approved the Reproductive Health Act in a […]
The Transportation Security Administration has updated its guidance regarding medical marijuana and air travel, clarifying that medications containing hemp-derived CBD are legal to fly with ― mostly. The update, made quietly to the TSA website over Memorial Day weekend, formally permits products containing hemp-derived CBD, and FDA-approved medications containing CBD, in both carry-on and checked […]
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) is urging Robert Mueller to testify in public following reports that the special counsel was pushing for a closed-door appearance with members of Congress in negotiations with House Democrats. “I understand that Mr. Mueller doesn’t want it to become a media circus if he decides to testify, but the American public […]
A minor-league baseball team apologized Monday for its bush-league video depicting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) as an “enemy of freedom.” An image of Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive often targeted by conservatives, appeared between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the late Cuban strongman Fidel Castro in a Memorial Day tribute clip that aired during […]
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is set to announce a new proposal aimed at protecting reproductive rights. States and localities with a history of violating Roe v. Wade in the last 25 years would need to get clearance from the Department of Justice before any new abortion law or practice could take effect […]
President Donald Trump spent Memorial Day weekend in Japan, where ― despite being an ocean away ― he seemed more than a little preoccupied with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Trump set the tone Sunday with a tweet in which he both downplayed recent North Korean short-range missile tests and parroted a recent piece of North Korean propaganda […]