Un sistema de electricidad inestable y altas facturas han creado un gran debate sobre por qué Puerto Rico no tiene un mejor servicio de electricidad. Un incendio en una planta de energía en Puerto Rico dejó a más de 1 millón de personas sin electricidad por cinco días en abril, lo que llevó a que […]
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of Americans now have some level of protection against the novel coronavirus. Millions have been vaccinated or have recovered from a prior infection, yielding antibodies that provide varying degrees of immunity. Although that immunity may stave off the most dire of infections, it isn’t foolproof, […]
A super PAC that says it supports “true conservative leaders” uses a drag queen to flag Republican Kari Lake, a front-runner for governor of Arizona, as a “phony.” With a 30-second ad three weeks before Arizona’s primary election, American Focus PAC lobs a handful of attacks at Lake, a former news anchor for KSAZ-TV, Fox […]
Most of the states that have acted quickly to curb abortions after the reversal of Roe v. Wade have decided to do away with one longstanding element of abortion policymaking: allowing abortions in the case of rape or incest. The matter attracted national attention in July after it was reported that a 10-year old Ohio […]
The visuals in video games can look pretty real, and we’ve seen social media users sharing action-packed clips from games as if they are the real thing. In the race to be the Republican nominee for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat, an ad from venture capitalist Blake Masters doesn’t pretend to show actual footage of the […]
High electricity bills and an unreliable system have heated up a longstanding debate about why Puerto Rico doesn’t have better electricity service. A fire at a power plant in Puerto Rico left more than 1 million people without electricity for five days in April — prompting hospitals to rely on generators and causing shutdowns of […]
After many months, Customs and Border Protection released findings from an investigation of a Sept. 19, 2021, incident in which Border Patrol agents on horseback pursued Haitian migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas. Photos and videos of the incident went viral, drawing national attention. In a […]
Some called the Georgia Guidestones monument “America’s Stonehenge.” Others called it “satanic.” In May, a conservative gubernatorial candidate in Georgia said she would turn the mystifying structure “into dust” if elected. A little after 4 a.m. on July 6, someone did just that, using explosives to reduce one of the Guidestones’ four vertical granite panels […]
Will a health plan pay for an abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade? Even before the June 24 ruling, insurance coverage for abortion varied widely. Now the issue is even more complex as states set varying rules — about half are expected to limit or ban abortion in almost all circumstances. […]
In the last month, the Jan. 6 hearings kept the Capitol assault and the underlying belief of a flawed election in the news. The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade prompted a claim from President Joe Biden about how the U.S. stacks up against other developed nations. We heard from readers about both, […]
The latest House hearing on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, painted a picture of former President Donald Trump as a man running out of options. As of mid-December 2020, he had lost 60 out of 61 court challenges to state election results. His top campaign and White House advisers were telling him there was […]
After mass shootings in Florida and Texas, Congress passed a bipartisan bill in June that includes money for states to implement “red flag” laws, a way for family members and law enforcement to ask courts to take away guns from people with patterns of violence. Not even two weeks later, a man with a known […]