This story is republished from our news partners at KFF Health News. Before Ohio voters amended their constitution last year to protect abortion rights, the state’s attorney general, an anti-abortion Republican, said that doing so would upend at least 10 state laws limiting abortions. But those laws remain a hurdle and straightforward access to abortions […]
El presidente Joe Biden conmemoró el 80 aniversario de la invasión del Día D en Normandía, Francia, advirtiendo que la democracia mundial está en riesgo. No mucho después de su discurso el 6 de junio, usuarios en redes sociales circularon videos editados de Biden, diciendo que el presidente se sentó en una “silla imaginaria”, que […]
President Joe Biden’s recent immigration proclamation would significantly restrict migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border. But does this action amount to a border “shutdown” as some Democratic politicians have claimed? Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., criticized Biden’s directive, saying it used the same immigration law provision former President Donald Trump used in 2017 to […]
Two days before President Joe Biden directed his administration to reduce the number of migrants entering the U.S., his critics expressed alarm over another immigration matter. “While Trump was being tried in a politically weaponized kangaroo court case, the Biden administration quietly terminated 350,000 asylum cases, effectively granting them mass amnesty,” conservative influencer Ian Miles […]
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President Joe Biden commemorated the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, with a warning that democracy worldwide is at risk. Not long after his June 6 speech, social media users circulated edited video clips of Biden, claiming the president sat in an “imaginary chair,” had a bowel movement and left the event […]
When Republican lawmakers on May 31 released a transcript from two days of closed-door interviews with the nation’s best-known infectious diseases expert, a portion of the transcript inspired a splashy headline. “REVEALED: Dr. Anthony Fauci confesses he ‘made up’ covid rules including 6 feet social distancing and masking kids,” read a June 2 headline in […]
El presidente Joe Biden ha dicho repetidamente a los votantes durante su campaña, que su oponente, el expresidente Donald Trump, les eliminaría la atención médica si recupera la Casa Blanca. “Los republicanos MAGA han intentado deshacerse de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible más de 50 veces, y Trump sigue decidido a hacerlo”, dijo […]
Former President Donald Trump’s recent conviction on felony charges raised a host of other questions. Can Trump still run for president? Yes, he can. Can he vote in Florida? It’s likely. But the answer to another question isn’t as clear: How will Trump’s felony conviction affect his ability to travel internationally? Social media users claimed […]
Al expresidente Donald Trump lo declararon culpable de varios delitos graves, por la falsificación de registros comerciales, en un supuesto plan para encubrir un pago a la actriz de cine para adultos Stormy Daniels. El juez que preside el caso, Juan Merchan, dictará la sentencia el 11 de julio y será una decisión histórica en […]
Was the American flag barred from Alaska’s Denali National Park & Preserve on Memorial Day weekend, as social media users claim? A May 27 Instagram post showed a photo of snowy mountains and an American flag, and a caption that read, “Alaska @Sen_DanSullivan is demanding answers after reports emerged that the American flag was banned […]
En un momento trascendental en la historia política y jurídica de Estados Unidos, el pasado 30 de mayo, un jurado de Manhattan declaró al expresidente Donald Trump, culpable de varios delitos graves. El jurado tomó una decisión unánime y concluyó que Trump es culpable de los 34 cargos de falsificación de registros comerciales, en un […]