The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Health dramatically and rapidly alters the landscape of abortion access in the U.S. The court on June 24 ruled 6-3 to uphold a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but also to overturn the nearly half-century precedent set in Roe v. Wade that guaranteed the constitutional […]
One month after the deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the U.S. Congress passed a bipartisan bill crafted to prevent future school shootings. It’s poised to become the first gun control action from Congress in nearly three decades. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill 234-193 on June 24, following the Senate’s 65-33 […]
Not long after news organizations called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, then-President Donald Trump started asking the Justice Department to dig into allegations of election fraud. Trump’s Attorney General William Barr told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that his staff followed orders. But Barr’s people found […]
The political fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade remains to be seen. But while public opinion polls offer some sense of what Americans think about abortion, the data is murkier and more contradictory than either supporters and opponents of abortion rights tend to admit. Partly, that’s because views on abortion […]
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the decisions about whether to permit abortion revert to the states. So what happens now? “What seems clear is there will be a checkerboard effect,” with some states allowing abortion said Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor. Sixteen states plus the District of […]
Ending nearly 50 years of federally protected access to abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned Roe v. Wade, returning power to individual states to set their own laws. “The Constitution makes no express reference to a right to obtain an abortion…,” the June 24 ruling said. “We thus return the power to weigh […]
Seeking to address record-high gas prices nationwide, President Joe Biden has called on Congress and states to enact gas tax holidays. In remarks on June 22, Biden called on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for 90 days. Such a move would reduce prices at the pump by 18 cents per gallon on gasoline […]
A Georgia election clerk described how her life was upended and her family frighteningly harassed with racist texts and worse. An Arizona Republican leader told of the ugly texts, death threats and loss of friends that came as he rebuffed efforts by a sitting president, Donald Trump, to revoke election results that showed another man […]
When a journalist is covering the process of voting – whether it’s for mayor, governor or U.S. Senator – the goal is the same: show the public the truth about the administration of elections. Accurate reporting about elections helps reduce the spread of unfounded rumors. Journalists and their newsrooms should prepare now to cover primaries […]
In 2020, an Oregon-based nonprofit that works to supply free menstrual products to communities in need, distributed over 2 million tampons. In 2021, it distributed over 1.5 million. Halfway through 2022, the group, called PERIOD, has only been able to send out 200,000 tampons, according to Kate Barker Swindell, the nonprofit’s service and operations manager. […]
This year marks the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth but only the second year it’s been celebrated as a federal holiday. Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., garnered national attention in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd. While the nation underwent another racial reckoning, advocates fought for solidified recognition for June […]
After brushing off the first hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack in favor of hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, Fox News carried the second and third hearings live. But the network’s coverage of the June 16 hearing exposed its viewers to several revelations about Fox News’ own hosts, guests, […]