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Pete Buttigieg spun an attack by Tucker Carlson into an opportunity to promote paid parental leave, refusing to “apologize” to the host for taking paternity leave to care for two children he adopted with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg. The Fox News host made homophobic comments while attacking the transportation secretary …

“You see a fucking group” in the street, a Minneapolis police sergeant in a riot helmet told his fellow officers: “Fuck ‘em up, gas ‘em, fuck ‘em up.” It was the evening of May 30th, 2020, five days after Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. An 8 p.m. curfew was …

Texas’ Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning any entity in the state, including private businesses, from mandating a Covid-19 vaccine for employees or customers. “No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to …

A rally for supporters of the “Big Lie” is looking like a big flop. Reports from the start of the “Justice for J6” rally Saturday show an event much smaller than the January 6th Capitol insurrection. Video from on-scene reporters appears to show more members of the media in attendance …

Hurricanes and wildfires are ravaging the United States, and President Biden is on the road reminding everyone that the climate crisis is real, it’s here, and action — bold action — must be taken to combat the devastation being wrought by rising temperatures. Last week he was in New Orleans …

After a circus of a summer spent hearing appeals from a motley crew of gubernatorial candidates, Californians will decide on Tuesday whether to recall Gavin Newsom. If they do, the man who replaces him will probably be Larry Elder, a libertarian radio host who rose to the top of a …

Governor Ron DeSantis won a temporary victory in his continuing battle against preventing Covid-19. Florida‘s 1st District Court ordered that the governor’s ban on mask mandates in the state’s schools remain in place while a court case opposing the ban makes its way through the appeals process. The panel of …

Now you can see how it works, this whole climate collapse scenario that writers and scientists have been hollering about for years. In the space of a few short months, the Pacific Northwest was baked by an extreme heat wave, California was (and still is) consumed by wildfire and parched …

Some 56,000 North Carolinians regained their voting rights thanks to a court ruling Monday that found people on parole or probation for felonies should be able to vote. The ruling represents the largest expansion of voting rights in the state since 1965’s Voting Rights Act, according to Durham civil rights …

Andrew Cuomo is hellbent on staying in the governor’s mansion as he faces a tidal wave of calls to resign following the release of a damning report detailing what Attorney General Letitia James described as a “disturbing” pattern of alleged sexual misconduct. He might want to shift his concern to …