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Michael Flynn, former national security advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives for his plea hearing at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse December 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. Special Counsel Robert Mueller charged Flynn with one count of making a false statement to the FBI.
A divided panel of one of the most conservative federal courts in the country held on Friday that a Texas voter suppression law is legal and should remain in effect. Moreover, should Judge Edith Jones' reasoning for the panel be embraced by the Supreme Court, it could enable state lawmakers to rescue laws enacted for the very purpose of disenfranchising voters of color.
Photo of Sara Ann Makenzie, one of two transgender Wisconsin residents challenging a state regulation that prohibits low-income Medicaid beneficiaries from obtaining medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria. Credit: Spencer Micka Photography Top surgery, a common reference for chest reconstruction surgery for transgender patients, is a widely accepted and effective surgical procedure for treating gender dysphoria.
While the debate rages about what comedian Michelle Wolf did or did not mean by specific jokes in her White House Correspondents' Dinner monologue this weekend, and the level of seriousness with which we should all approach them, and how to react to the entire debacle, the Correspondents' Association itself has officially weighed in with a statement to members on Sunday night. Turns out, they aren't over the moon about the whole thing.
Once again, the Israeli military has turned its guns on Gaza - this time on unarmed protestors, in a series of shootings over the last few weeks. Gaza's already under-resourced hospitals are straining to care for the thousands of protesters who have been injured, on top of 40 killed.
I am so not funny that I remember that funny joke I told 10 years ago. We all get a good one off occasionally. Everything was bad after 9/11 but maybe the only good consequence (even if they fucked it up entirely) was that for a brief moment the political press suddenly realized... things matter.
Since childhood, I've responded to ostracism from family and friends with a drive to prove myself better than other people around me. I gave up on belonging to the club, and convinced myself instead that "they're not good enough for me."
I reviewed Jaimie Branch's incredible Fly or Die album awhile back. It's great. She wrote a piece about its surprising success and she sums up the whole era in which we live at the end: I guess at the end of the day, it's about finding your people.
After the demise of yet another Trump administration nomination, it's worth taking a look at lessons learned. So far, the president has tried to blame Democrats as "obstructionists" for White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson's downfall and described Jackson Friday as an " American hero ."
It is the latest foreign government to book rooms or host events at the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C., riling critics who say such bookings are nothing more than attempts to curry favor with President Donald Trump. The Philippine Independence Day celebration set for June 12 comes as the country pushes for a free-trade agreement with the U.S. and amid international criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte for encouraging vigilante killings of drug suspects.
In the past few weeks, two instances of racial bias-one at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, the other in an Alabama Waffle House-caught national attention. On this episode, Igor speaks with Clint Smith, teacher, writer, and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University, about the historical roots of racism and black criminalization that have created deep racial disparities such as in school discipline and policing.
Google is betting that the future of healthcare is going to be structured data and AI. The company is applying AI to disease detection, new data infrastructure, and potentially insurance.
In a district Donald Trump won by 21 points in 2016, a Democratic newcomer is trying to pull off an upset victory for an open U.S. House seat in Arizona that has been held by Republicans since the early 1980s.
Passersby stop at a make-shift memorial set up on Yonge Street after Monday's tragedy where a man driving a cube van killed 10 pedestrians and injured another fifteen while traveling down the sidewalk. CREDIT: Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star/Getty Images.
Graduate teaching assistants have taken on heavier workloads, but their pay rarely rises to the level of a living wage. More than a year after graduate students at Columbia University voted to unionize with the United Automobile Workers, hundreds of The students plan to stage a week-long strike during what is the university's most hectic time, when students and professors are preparing for finals and the help of graduate teaching assistants, fellows, and research assistants is critical.
Abbott v. Perez is a case of mind-numbing procedural complexity. It involves Texas' successful efforts to draw gerrymandered maps in 2011 - maps that were eventually found to be an illegal racial gerrymander by a federal court - and then maintain as much of these illegal maps as possible for as long as possible after the fact.
Heavy machinery excavate and carry coal ash from a drained coal ash pond at Dominion Power's Possum Point Power Station in Dumfries, Virginia. CREDIT: Kate Patterson for The Washington Post via Getty Images Residents have not been clamoring for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to weaken the nation's coal ash waste rules.
During a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, President Trump advised his hand-picked choice to be secretary of veterans affairs, Ronny Jackson, to not take the job. Jackson's confirmation process is currently on indefinite hold because the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is investigating allegations he oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House physician, allowed the over-prescribing of drugs, and drank too much on the job, according to the New York Times .
By all accounts, the Legal Orientation Program has been a smashing success for the federal government. The program - which provides rudimentary legal guidance to people facing deportation - saves taxpayer money, speeds the court process, and has been praised by judges, lawyers, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.