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Hold Boeing criminally accountable

Unless federal law enforcement officials adopt a tougher stance and start treating Boeing like the felony recidivist it is, the company will not change. 

HRC Equality Votes PAC taps former Priorities USA chair as chief strategist

The Human Rights Campaign on Tuesday announced Democratic heavyweight Guy Cecil will serve as chief strategist for its Equality Votes PAC’s 2024 electoral efforts, managing a multimillion-dollar paid media budget to reelect President Biden in November.  Cecil chaired the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA for eight years before stepping down last March. He led the Democratic...

Approval of first publicly funded religious charter school in US ruled unconstitutional

The approval of the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school was struck down as unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday. “The St. Isidore Contract violates state and federal law and is unconstitutional,” the court ruled. Oklahoma's Charter School Board has been ordered to rescind the contract with St. Isidore of Seville...

Hunter Biden’s law license suspended in D.C. following gun conviction

Hunter Biden's license to practice law in Washington, D.C., was suspended Tuesday following his conviction on federal gun charges earlier this month. In a terse order, the D.C. Court of Appeals said President Biden's son is "suspended immediately" from practicing law in the nation's capital. It also directed the D.C. Bar's Board on Professional Responsibility...

Advertisers, business groups want ‘significant changes’ to data privacy bill

Business and advertising groups are demanding “significant changes” to a landmark data privacy bill slated for a markup on Thursday. House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) last week circulated a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), which would allow individuals to opt out...

What to know about the new SUN Bucks food assistance program 

Story at a glance Hunger worsens in the summer for many children who rely on school lunches for regular meals when class is in session. A new federal program aims to help mitigate that "summer food gap" by offering funds for millions of families to put toward groceries. Some families have begun to get...

Protecting 1.2 percent of land as nature preserves could prevent majority of extinctions: Research 

Protecting just over one percent of land as nature preserves could prevent most extinctions, according to new research published on Monday. The research in the Frontiers in Science journal proposed preventing futher extinctions by protecting areas it labeled as Conservative Imperatives, which it defined as "currently unprotected sites that contain rare, threatened, and narrow-range endemic species.”...

The government’s leadership on IVF starts with its own employees

It time for the federal government to recognize its leadership role on this IVF coverage. Legislation is the only lasting solution to a problem that cannot be solved by the executive branch alone.

A plan of attack for Ukraine 

The stakes for the U.S. and our European allies could not be higher. The time to act is now. 

Israeli court rules ultra-Orthodox men must serve in military

Israeli’s high court ruled Tuesday that ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for compulsory military service, a major shift that could break up Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. For decades, ultra-Orthodox men in Israel have been exempt from laws requiring all Jewish Israelis to perform military service. Critics said the laws discriminated against the rest of...

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