“Did you think we wouldn’t notice?” an older woman says, speaking into the camera. “You thought you could sneak this through?” an older man later adds. Others warn that Washington is “messing with” their Medicare Advantage health coverage and trying to raise their premiums. But the television ad, paid for by Better Medicare Alliance, a […]
Congressional Republicans have seized on a letter written by a top official from the National Institutes of Health, claiming that it proves the agency funded “gain of function” research in Wuhan, China, the site of the first known coronavirus outbreak. In an Oct. 20 letter to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., Dr. Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy […]
The United States is closer than ever to providing COVID-19 vaccines to 28 million people who so far have been unable to access protection from the pandemic that has upended their lives: children ages 5 to 11. People in that age group were at the center of Food and Drug Administration discussions Oct. 26 when […]
Across the country this year, the nation’s political maps are being redrawn. Redistricting is a complicated, even arcane process, but one with a significant impact on the nation’s political landscape. It has the potential to affect which party controls political power in the U.S. House, and has significant implications for the political power of Blacks, […]
After Joe Biden won the election in Nevada in 2020, Donald Trump’s allies cried fraud. And they had the poster child of an example: a man who said he felt “disbelief” after discovering that someone cast a ballot in his dead wife’s name. “I was surprised because she passed away three years ago,” Donald Kirk […]
Former and perhaps future Gov. Terry McAuliffe is not mincing his words on the COVID-19 vaccine. “Glenn Youngkin is an anti-vaxxer,” McAuliffe, a Democrat, said of his Republican opponent for governor during an Oct. 19, 2021 television interview with WJLA in Arlington. With little effort, we found six other TV interviews this month where McAuliffe […]
Newsmax and Fox News have aired old, out-of-context photos of empty grocery store shelves in recent segments bashing President Joe Biden for the jammed-up supply chain that experts say is backlogged due to the coronavirus pandemic’s strain on the global economy. Shortages of labor and raw materials have certainly created bottlenecks at a time when […]
In recent days, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon rebuffed a subpoena from the same panel. At the center of both defiant acts is the concept of executive privilege. We previously delved into executive privilege in 2019, when […]
President Joe Biden used a CNN town hall to sell voters on his efforts to get Congress to pass infrastructure and social spending packages that he says would help average Americans with child care and education. Despite the long legislative process and disagreements among Senate Democrats over the price tag, Biden expressed optimism that they […]
A GOP political group aligned with Republican leader Sen. Mitch McConnell has launched ads attacking Democrats in battleground states over their party’s social spending bill. The ads by the One Nation group try to link Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire to the “liberal spending […]
Several days before the Oct. 19 start of the National Basketball Association season, a widely circulated headline said a 26-year-old NBA player suffered blood clots shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. The headline, shared in an Instagram post, referred to guard Brandon Goodwin, who played for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks last season and before that […]
Colin Powell, the retired general and diplomat with a legacy of breaking barriers during his military and civilian careers, died Oct. 18. In a brief statement posted on Facebook, Powell’s family said the cause of death was complications from COVID-19, noting that he had been fully vaccinated. Powell spent 35 years in the U.S. Army, […]