In the first 100 days, new presidents try to turn campaign promises into quick legislative victories, defuse lingering crises, set themselves apart from their predecessor, and set a leadership tone for the next four years — all while avoiding blunders that could destroy their momentum. So how is President Joe Biden doing as he approaches […]
Recently the American Red Cross has fielded questions from concerned potential blood donors uncertain if they can give blood after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. But the answer is pretty straight-forward: Yes, with one small caveat. You need to know the name of the company that manufactured your vaccine, such as Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & […]
Since the first COVID-19 vaccines were sent out across the country last December, more than 135 million Americans have gotten at least their first shot. They’re growing more confident about it, too, after watching others get immunized. A March Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that just 17% of respondents were planning to “wait and see” […]
The latest political battle over the Supreme Court is not about filling an open seat, but about how many seats there should be. Several Democratic lawmakers in Congress have introduced legislation to expand the court to 13 justices, up from its current nine. One of the bill’s sponsors, Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., told PolitiFact that […]
A jury convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd after taking in nearly three weeks of witness testimony and video footage of Floyd’s final moments under Chauvin’s knee. Even the police chief spoke out against Chauvin’s use of force. But on the day that Floyd was killed, the Minneapolis […]
President Joe Biden believes Washington can deliver on two big promises at the same time: tackling climate change and creating jobs. And his policy dreams depend on his ability to effectively sell that idea. Biden is bullish on the prospect that clean energy can be the same kind of economic engine that the fossil fuel […]
Days before former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., told protesters in Minnesota that if the defendant wasn’t convicted, they should “get more confrontational.” Republicans rebuked Waters for her remarks, saying she was inciting violence, although their censure motion failed […]
Conservative radio show host Ben Shapiro and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp blamed Democrats for Major League Baseball moving the All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to a new voting law. Shapiro said that voting rights activist Stacey Abrams “suddenly” said MLB shouldn’t move the game. He said that President Joe Biden “overtly suggested” that […]
In early April, YouTube took down a video featuring Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a group of controversial scientists at a March 18 coronavirus roundtable. The online video platform, owned by Google, cited as its rationale that the video contained false statements about the efficacy of children’s mask-wearing. The decision has drawn public blowback on […]
After weeks of testimony and a year of reckoning, a jury in Minneapolis convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter for the killing of George Floyd, who died gasping for air while Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nine minutes. The verdict follows testimony from 45 […]
As a candidate for president, Joe Biden promised a very different approach to refugee admissions compared with President Donald Trump. Biden said he would increase the annual number of people let in as refugees, not decrease it as Trump did year after year. So when Biden’s administration made an announcement April 16 that appeared to […]
New information from the chief medical examiner for the District of Columbia provides fresh details that call into question early reports about how U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick died. Sicknick died the day after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Initial reports, citing law enforcement sources, said that the 42-year-old had been struck […]