Two women filed federal complaints against Texas hospitals they allege refused to terminate their ectopic pregnancies, which lead to both women losing a fallopian tube, compromising their future fertility. Abortion is banned in Texas, but terminating an ectopic pregnancy, where a fertilized egg implants in a fallopian tube instead of the uterus, is explicitly allowed under...
Former President Obama is suggesting he's been having a "brat" summer, recommending songs from Charli XCX, Shaboozey and Billie Eilish as part of an annual list of favorite tunes. "With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs that I've been listening to lately," the 44th president said in a Monday social media post. "I hope...
Vice President Harris has taken the lead over former President Trump in the national polling average kept by Decision Desk HQ/The Hill, underscoring how the new Democratic presidential candidate has quickly seen polls move in her favor. The Harris lead in the DDHQ/The Hill poll is a narrow 0.3 points as of Monday, but it...
Actress Glenn Close poked fun at Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) controversial “childless cat ladies” comment in an Instagram post on Sunday. Close, who starred as Vance’s strong-willed grandmother in the film adaptation of Vance’s popular memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” posted a photo with her own cat, Eve,...
A training video associated with Project 2025 — a controversial playbook for a future conservative presidency by the right-wing Heritage Foundation — calls for eliminating references to climate change across the federal government. The video was published online this weekend by news outlets ProPublica and Documented, shared with the news outlets by a person who had...
Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro on Monday recommended former President Trump put more focus on contrasting his policy differences with Vice President Harris, rather than repeated personal attacks. "He needs votes, and the current rally formula is simply not sufficiently focused on the very stark policy differences — policy differences — between him...
The U.S. on Monday said Iran and its proxies may attack Israel this week as fears grow that a large assault is imminent. White House national security council spokesperson John Kirby said the attack "could be this week," agreeing with reports that Israel expects an attack within days. But Kirby said it's unclear when exactly...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s favorability with the public has cratered in the last two years, amid a wave of reporting about his financial disclosures and particularly gifts from wealthy donors, a new USA Today/Ipsos poll revealed. Thomas’s net favorability sits in the new survey at -15 percentage points — 27 percent favorable to 42...
President Biden would "absolutely" sign legislation to eliminate taxes on tipped wages if it made it to his desk, the White House said Monday, embracing a policy first proposed by former President Trump and echoed by Vice President Harris. "Look, this is something that the president supports," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a briefing....
Federal forecasters are warning of a severe solar storm through Tuesday that potentially threatens satellites, orbital communications and some infrastructure. The warning follows a volley of solar flares beginning over the weekend. The outburst marks the second of its kind this year after decades of relative calm — part of a cycle of increasing storms that...
Vice President Harris’s proposal to nix taxes on tips and raise the federal minimum wage could cost up to $200 billion over a decade, a budget watchdog estimated in an analysis. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) estimated Monday that exempting tip income from federal income, as well as increasing the minimum wage,...
Former President Trump will focus on rising prices and what his campaign is calling a "crime wave" in this weekend's rally in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Trump will deliver remarks to a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Saturday, where he will lay out how the Biden-Harris administration's "dangerously liberal policies and radical Democrats" have...
Most Republicans support the policy proposals in President Biden’s plan to reform the Supreme Court, according to a new USA Today/Ipsos poll. Biden outlined a three-pronged approach to reforming the high court in a speech last month, calling for a binding code of conduct, 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, and a Constitutional amendment...
