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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners will be the first movie on a streaming platform that will also be available in Black American Sign Language at the time of...
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s intensely contested budget bill for the coming fiscal year, returning it to the House...
On Monday, the Boston Globe reported that the Senate version of New Hampshire’s two-year budget bill contains language that “would prohibit public...
In May, the Department of Energy quietly introduced a proposal to eliminate its longstanding requirement that new buildings receiving funds from the...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Ava Tharpe, the plaintiff in A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a notable education and...
With the impact of Donald Trump’s bevy of tariffs on foreign goods—including Covid protective gear—around the corner, Covid Safe Colorado knew...
On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Covid booster shots will be limited to people over 65 and those with pre-existing health...
Within the first few minutes of Tuesday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on planned Republican Medicaid cuts—which would render...
At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy,...
For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and to the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark...
Preliminary results projected by CBC in Canada’s snap federal election, which took place Monday, suggest that the country’s Liberal Party—which...
State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced this week that they will have to limit their work due to...
On Friday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in New Orleans deported members of two families, including young children and a...
On Thursday, House Reps. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) introduced a formal inquiry demanding more information from Health and...
On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services,...
For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis...
To Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—and contrary to medical consensus and decades of study—autism is an appalling,...
As someone who is deaf, Sara Nović says, “the phone has long been my nemesis.” Nović, an organizer and author of the novel True Biz, has tried...
On Tuesday, former President Joe Biden gave his first public speech following the end of his presidency in January, at the Chicago national conference...
In February, after Donald Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery...
At a Hands Off rally for people with Long Covid, Amanda Finley was filled with emotions. She talked about how devastated she was to lose people who...
On Tuesday, in a series of emails sent at 5 a.m. Eastern Time, all employees—around 20—of the federal Administration for Community Living’s...
On Thursday, the federal Department of Health and Human Services moved, through a department-wide restructuring order, to eliminate the Administration...
On March 22, at a Human Rights Campaign gala in Los Angeles, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Tex.) made remarks referring to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who uses...
On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The bill’s primary author was former...
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Columbia University has agreed to terms set by the Trump administration in order to retain its...
On March 31, the Social Security Administration will cease allowing people to confirm their identity over the phone when enrolling or changing their...
Kelly Kenley’s community clinic in rural Minnesota has already survived one crisis this year: her Open Door Health Center didn’t get federal funds...
“In order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence,” Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote for the majority in 1927’s Buck v....
Jonathan Rivera had to get his foot, and part of his leg, amputated in January. Rivera lives in Florida—one of ten states which has declined...
Five major airlines—American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—have joined an airline trade association lawsuit to overturn a...
Minnesota teenager Ava T. lives with seizures that predominate in the morning, preventing her from attending school safely before noon. When her...
The National Institutes of Health, the federal government’s leading medical research agency, came under attack by Project 2025 well before its...
On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Elon Musk’s DOGE fed sensitive data into artificial intelligence software as a way to help decide...
In August 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law that allowed the development of state-level programs to help disabled people live...
On Wednesday, an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into a commercial American Airlines flight as it was in the process of landing at Ronald Reagan...
On Monday, moments before Donald Trump’s inauguration, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of American Indian Movement activist Leonard...
On January 8, after multiple wildfires erupted in Los Angeles, a father who was an amputee, and his son, who had cerebral palsy—both wheelchair...
In emergency updates, American Sign Language interpreters are crucial to the safety of Deaf people—close to a million of whom live in the Los...
Los Angeles has been hit with its worst-ever wildfires, which continue to blaze, already claiming at least ten lives and devastating air...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building in Washington, DC. Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized...
Mother Jones illustration; Photo by Ariel Majewski Elon Musk’s calls for a so-called “efficient” US government—including wanting to end the already...
Beyza Durmuş Dani Izzie, a wheelchair user with quadriplegia, tried to take public transit, as she usually does, when visiting Miami in 2022....
President-elect Donald Trump looks at his watch during a campaign speech in June 2016. Chris O'Meara/AP Annoyed with time changes in the fall and...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Mother Jones illustration; Paul Hennessy/ SOPA/Sipa USA/AP On Wednesday, the nonprofit organization Disability Rights...
A worker at an ice cream shop in Kansas that hires people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and pays them more than minimum wage....
Mother Jones illustration; Getty When Gwen Williams’ mother was dying, taking her to an in-person appointment to get more medicine seemed...
Dr. Mehmet Oz at a rally during his 2022 Senate campaign. Jacqueline Larma/AP Some 15 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare Part D, which...
Mother Jones illustration; Niall Carson/PA Wire/Zuma; Courtesy Fred Trump Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III doesn’t expect to be invited to his...
Workers advocate a minimum wage rise at a 2022 rally in New York. Noam Galai/Getty When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law in 1938,...