Vice President Harris is set to place blame on former President Trump for the fall of Roe v. Wade on Monday, the anniversary of the historic Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal right to abortion access. Harris will travel to Maryland for a campaign event on the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs...
Michelle Obama is delivering a get-out-the-vote message to mark Juneteenth, calling this year's election a "critical moment." "Juneteenth is all about celebrating our collective freedom and fighting to protect it," the former first lady said in a video posted Wednesday on social platform X. Juneteenth recognizes when enslaved people of African descent in Texas learned of their...
The chemical plume from the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, spread air pollutants to at least 16 states, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The cloud, created as part of a controlled burn of the spilled chemicals, reached as far north as New England and possibly as...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unlikely to stand on the first debate stage next week, a setback that could throw him off course in his race against President Biden and former President Trump. The independent candidate is determined to debate his Democratic and Republican rivals in Atlanta on June 27. But he’s running out of...
Black leaders around the nation are reflecting on the legacy of Juneteenth and the need for the holiday nearly 160 years after the last of enslaved Americans were emancipated. “Juneteenth is a time to come together to celebrate freedom, liberty and the resilience that has defined the Black American story from our arrival on these...
Class struggle is one thing; class war — when workers shoot back at the bosses — is of an entirely different magnitude. While rare, literal class war is not unknown in America.
House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R) said Wednesday that he “can still prevail” in the tight Republican primary for his Virginia seat, which remained too close to call. “We are in a period where the law provides a process for evaluating the accuracy of all the vote totals from election day to ensure everyone...
Pew Research Center has revised a recent study after advocates criticized the research institute for saying a majority of Black Americans believe “racial conspiracy theories” about U.S. institutions. The June 10 report, originally titled “Most Black Americans Believe Racial Conspiracy Theories About U.S. Institutions,” found that a majority of Black Americans believe U.S. institutions were designed, and continue, to...
The U.S. government is acknowledging that hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest have harmed tribes. A new report from the Interior Department showed that dams built in the early 1900s along the Columbia River blocked fish migration and flooded thousands of acres — including sacred sites and burial grounds. Accordingly, the government acknowledged, tribes lost...
For more than 400 years, over 15 million Africans were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, according to data from the United Nations. By 1860, when the last census before the Civil War was taken, there were 4 million slaves in the South. But three years later, on Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln...
Israel's foreign minister warned Tuesday of "all-out war" with Hezbollah, after the Lebanese military and political group released what it said were videos of sensitive Israeli military sites and of civilian areas. Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had threatened his country and that Israel is "very close to the moment of...
