As laws restricting abortion snap into place across at least 18 states after the June 24 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, people have taken to social media to question whether this decision will limit access to the treatment for ectopic pregnancies. A Facebook post claimed “the treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is […]
When President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan gun bill into law, he expanded protections for people who are at risk at the hands of their partners. Federal law already prohibited convicted domestic abusers from owning a firearm. But that applied largely to married couples, or at most, to abusers “similarly situated to a spouse.” The […]
When the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade — the five-decade-old decision that protected abortion rights nationally — it created a new legal battlefield. One of the most vexing issues, legal experts say, is whether states that ban abortions can legally punish women for leaving the state to get an abortion, or punish people […]
Michael Stenger, the Senate sergeant-at-arms at the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, died June 27, according to reports from Politico and other outlets. He was 71. The cause of Stenger’s death was not yet known as of June 29. NBC News reported that his death was not believed to […]
A federal appeals court in July is slated to hear arguments over the legality of an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children. Despite this pending litigation, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., has called the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, “illegal.” “Today marks the tenth anniversary […]
From her desk in the heart of the West Wing, just seconds away from the Oval Office, Cassidy Hutchinson was privy to pivotal conversations among former President Donald Trump and his inner circle of staff and advisers. On June 28, Hutchinson, the executive assistant to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, sat before […]
A former White House staffer on June 28 took center stage in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivering the most revealing testimony yet about President Donald Trump’s response. Seated before members of the House select committee investigating the insurrection, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief […]
With the flood of misinformation saturating social media, there are too many claims and not enough human fact-checkers to do the tedious work required. Can automation help with fact-checking? Fact-checking organizations around the globe have been developing systems that automate or use artificial intelligence to streamline and accelerate elements of the fact-checking process. On Friday, […]
Whether considered an assault rifle or America’s rifle, the AR-15 is emblematic of gun culture in the United States: Gun enthusiasts herald it for its versatility and power, whereas gun control advocates loathe its role in so many mass shootings. The gunmen in two recent mass shootings, in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, both […]
Hours after 19 children and two teachers were shot dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Arkansas gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders gave a primary victory speech and vowed to make sure kids will be as safe in the womb as they are in a classroom. The comment was made on May 24, but […]
The Texas Republican Convention on June 18 called for the state Legislature to approve a measure asking voters whether they favor “Texas Independence.” That is, a referendum on secession. The GOP platform committee wrote, “We urge the Texas Legislature to pass (a) bill in its next session requiring a referendum in the 2023 general election for the people […]
Fact-checkers don’t like to talk about themselves. They pride themselves on staying out of the limelight and reporting the truth about readers’ communities. But this week at GlobalFact 9, the annual conference held by the International Fact-Checking Network, the attention is in an unfamiliar spot: on the journalists — and their relationship to democracy. In […]