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On Its 25th Birthday, Mifepristone Is More Under Attack Than Ever

On Its 25th Birthday, Mifepristone Is More Under Attack Than Ever

Twenty-five years ago today, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of mifepristone for abortions. Now, the drug is more under threat than...

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New York City’s Eric Adams Era Is Over

New York City’s Eric Adams Era Is Over

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced on Sunday that he will abandon his chaotic reelection campaign to run the biggest city in the country. The...

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Elon Musk Urges Brits to “Fight Back” Against Their Political Enemies

Elon Musk Urges Brits to “Fight Back” Against Their Political Enemies

Just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk joined other right-wingers in ratcheting up his rhetoric. In a bizarre, downright dystopian,...

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That Fox Anchor’s Long History Of Having to Apologize For Awful Remarks

That Fox Anchor’s Long History Of Having to Apologize For Awful Remarks

In yet another example of right-wingers calling for violence, a Fox News anchor this week suggested homeless people with mental illnesses should be...

14.09.2025 2

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Politicians Unite to Condemn Killing of Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk

Politicians Unite to Condemn Killing of Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk

Leading conservative activist Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after being shot while speaking to students at a university in Utah. He was 31 years old....

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The Most Eye-Popping Parts of Kamala Harris’s New Memoir—So Far

The Most Eye-Popping Parts of Kamala Harris’s New Memoir—So Far

Kamala Harris is back…with a vengeance. The first excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, about her history-making presidential campaign after...

10.09.2025 2

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Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks....

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The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem to Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.

The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem to Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.

Speaking at the Museum of the Bible on Monday, President Donald Trump repeated one of his favorite falsehoods as of late: That his deployment of the...

08.09.2025 2

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Florida Surgeon General Admits He Banned Vaccine Mandates Based on Vibes

After his announcement this week that he would seek to eliminate “all vaccine mandates,” Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made one...

07.09.2025 3

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Let’s Review Trump’s Week of Massive Legal Losses, Shall We?

It was a week of so much losing. Over the past week, President Donald Trump and his authoritarian agenda have sustained one loss after another in the...

07.09.2025 4

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Laura Loomer Is “Basically a Cabinet Member at This Point”

Conspiracy theorist and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer continues to wield a jarring amount of power in the Trump administration....

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Epstein Survivors Begged Trump to Release Their Files. He Called It a “Hoax.”

There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in a very divided DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the...

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RFK Jr.’s Enemies List Just Got a Lot Longer

It hasn’t been a great week for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education,...

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Leading Genocide Scholars Say Israel’s War in Gaza Fits the Definition

Leading genocide scholars have ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. In a resolution issued Sunday by the...

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Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls

It hasn’t been a great last week of the August recess for Republican members of Congress. At town hall events across the country, attendees booed,...

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Right-Wingers Hope Taylor Swift Will Inspire a New Generation of Trad Wives

You could say that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce’s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and...

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Trump Stays Silent on Gaza’s Famine

Two days after experts officially declared that a famine is unfolding in Gaza, President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the devastating new...

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Trump Threatens to Invade More American Cities

President Donald Trump’s DC takeover has proven to be broadly unpopular among residents and seemingly counterproductive. But the president has never...

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States Sue Over DOJ Demand to Hand Crime Victims to ICE

More than 20 state attorneys general have filed suit against the Department of Justice (DOJ), alleging the Trump administration is unlawfully seeking...

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Laura Loomer’s Latest Victim: Visas For Critically Injured Palestinian Kids

Laura Loomer, the far-right provocateur and conspiracy theorist who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has proven to have...

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Melania Trump’s Weird, Vague Letter to Putin

Melania and Donald Trump met Putin in Finland in 2018. Kremlin Pool/Planet Pix/ZUMA First Lady Melania Trump tends to be seen more often than she...

17.08.2025 3

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Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records

During his campaign for a second term in office, President Donald Trump claimed that he would leave abortion “to the states” if reelected. Trump...

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Trump Taps Project 2025 Architect Who Wants to Do Away With the Jobs Report to Run BLS

On Monday night, President Donald Trump announced his new pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after firing the previous commissioner and...

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Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023, the Israeli military has killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists, according to the...

11.08.2025 2

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Dr. Phil Opens Up About His Role In Trump’s Police State

Dr. Phil McGraw, the daytime television psychologist-turned-Trump surrogate, really wants you to believe a ludicrous claim: He is just not that into...

10.08.2025 2

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No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC

A new class-action lawsuit filed by a coalition of immigration advocacy groups alleges that undocumented immigrants have been detained in “crowded,...

10.08.2025 3

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ICE Is Extremely Desperate for You to Work for Them

Federal agents detain an individual as he exits immigration court in New York. Michael Nigro/Sipa/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is...

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Idaho Lost One in Three Obstetricians After Its Abortion Ban

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest...

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Trump Will Restore a Confederate Monument in the Nation’s Capital

Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has sought to rewrite American history, rejecting any signs of historical division and exalting some of...

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Trump Administration Moves Quietly to Eliminate Life-Saving Abortions for Veterans

On Friday, the Department of Veterans Affairs proposed a policy change that advocates for reproductive rights say could become one of the strictest...

03.08.2025 2

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White House Doubles Down on Baseless “Rigged” Claims About Poor Jobs Data

The shock and outrage over President Donald Trump firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner because of weak jobs numbers seems...

03.08.2025 2

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“Walking Corpses”: Israel’s Blockade of Aid Starves Gazans, Aid Groups Say

Two months ago, a coalition of aid groups warned that Israel’s war on Gaza—and restrictions on food entering the strip—would cause mass...

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The FDA Held a Misinformation Fest About Antidepressants in Pregnancy

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long railed against antidepressants, and now he has very practical ways to attack them....

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Six Months in, Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse

Sunday marked six months of President Donald Trump’s return to office. To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear....

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Trump Reaches a Breaking Point Over Epstein Files

President Donald Trump seems unfamiliar with the Streisand effect, the phenomenon of inadvertently drawing more attention to an issue by trying to...

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Let’s Count All the Ways Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Angry With President Trump

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s fealty to President Donald Trump has, for the most part, seemed nearly unshakable. She has compared him to...

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I Watched Lara Trump’s “Interview” With the President So You Don’t Have To

On Saturday night, Fox News went full-on state media. Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, sat down with the 47th president to...

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One Year After Assassination Attempt, MAGA Reiterates “God Spared Trump”

One year ago today, a would-be assassin tried to kill Donald Trump at a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. While he survived, one of...

14.07.2025 8

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What We Know About How FEMA Officials Are Failing Texas

The devastating floods that hit central Texas last Friday have now killed at least 120 people, including dozens of children, according to authorities,...

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Labor Department Reposts Grants for Women Workers DOGE Previously Canceled

On Wednesday morning, the Labor Department quietly reposted grants aimed at getting women workers into fields like construction and manufacturing, two...

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Tragedy Strikes Texas, and Some Experts Blame Trump Cuts for Devastation

On July 4, tragedy struck Texas. A flash flood cresting at more than 20 feet killed at least 70 people across six counties in central Texas, according...

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Elon Musk is Back in Politics With the New America Party

After leaving DC, with his business empire suffering, his relationship with President Donald Trump fractured, and his DOGE efforts deemed broadly...

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Conservatives Are Already Losing Their Minds Over Mamdani’s Apparent Win

It didn’t take long for conservatives to lose their minds after Zohran Mamdani’s apparent upset over Andrew Cuomo in the Tuesday night Democratic...

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The Costs of Restricting Abortion? More Than $130 Billion Per Year.

When the US Supreme Court decided to overrule Roe v. Wade three years ago, the ruling had sweeping consequences for public health, making pregnancy...

23.06.2025 3

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Mahmoud Khalil, Finally Free, Speaks Out

On Sunday, Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student jailed by immigration authorities for more than three months for his role...

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Democrats in Congress Decry Trump’s Iran Strikes as Unconstitutional

On Saturday night, President Donald Trump announced to the world that the US carried out what he called “massive precision strikes” on three...

22.06.2025 4

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Trump and the GOP’s Ghoulish Response to the Assassinations in Minnesota

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday that he does not plan to call Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) in the wake of this...

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“A Direct Attack on Women”: Lawmakers Demand Labor Secretary Preserve the Women’s Bureau

Democratic lawmakers are demanding Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer preserve the Women’s Bureau following recent reporting from Mother Jones that...

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Minnesota Shooter’s List Reportedly Included Abortion Providers and Advocates

The Minnesota shooter who killed a state lawmaker and her husband and wounded another legislator and his wife reportedly had a list containing dozens...

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Rand Paul Says He’s “Not a Big Fan” of Donald Trump’s Military Parade

Many Republicans quietly but noticeably skipped Trump’s military-slash-birthday parade on Saturday. According to a survey Politico did earlier this...

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