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...
The White House claims President Biden has wanted to hire thousands of border patrol agents, but Republicans and former President Trump are preventing them from doing so.
As a congressman, Gov. Tim Walz promoted the idea that a local ICE raid was "terrorism" in a speech where he also defended the idea of sanctuary cities.
House Republicans from New York are moving to block the Pentagon from being able to strike a plea deal to avoid the death penalty for the accused plotters of Sept. 11.