Bump stock devices were relatively obscure to the American public, right up until 2017, when a gunman in Las Vegas was able to use a bump stock to kill several dozen people and injure several hundred more in one of the worst mass shootings in our history. The public quickly came to realize that bump […]
Before you settle in to binge the new season of “The Bear” or watch Team USA go for the gold at the Paris Olympics, think twice about the amount of time you spend on the couch in front of the TV. Your future self may thank you. A new study by Harvard researchers links the […]
Congressional Republicans are well aware of the broad public support for in vitro fertilization. With one recent poll showing that a whopping 86% of Americans want IVF treatments to be legal, GOP officials realize that it’d be politically dangerous to oppose this popular, safe, and effective pro-family policy. With this in mind, every member of […]
Last October, amid a series of ethics controversies plaguing the high court, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett conceded that it’d be a “good idea” for the institution to adopt an ethics code. Justice Elena Kagan made similar comments a month earlier. The good news for reformers was that the Supreme Court announced in November […]
Given U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s slow handling of Donald Trump’s classified documents case and the backlog of motions holding up a trial, it’s always notable when she makes decisions that might let a trial take place someday. That happened Monday, when she rejected a defense motion that sought to dismiss charges for “pleading deficiencies,” […]
It was two years ago this month when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explicitly condemned the ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case that struck down a state law that restricted married couples’ access to birth control, calling for it to be “reconsidered.” The far-right jurist had a lot of company: Around the same […]
Tallahassee is bracing for the possibility of multiple rounds of severe weather today and Tuesday — and heavy rain and flooding — as the city continues to recover from three tornadoes that caused widespread wreckage just three days ago. Both the city and county have opened sandbag locations in preparation for the storms, which comes […]
A protective order in place has been lifted after three CSX rail cars derailed from its train in Hamilton County Saturday night. ALL CLEAR – The protective order in place due to the train derailment at 875 W. Wyoming Ave. has now been lifted. The area is now safe for normal activities. — Hamilton County […]
WASHINGTON – Just days after returning from a two-week recess, right-wing fury – spurred on by former President Donald Trump – brought the House to a standstill in a significant blow to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., as he grapples with a threat to his leadership post. Nineteen House Republicans shot down a procedural step […]
One-term presidents who fail to win a second term are usually doomed by their failures. So it would be ironic if Donald Trump’s bid is derailed by what is likely to be his most enduring policy achievement. The former president succeeded in constructing an unassailable conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which overturned the constitutional […]
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed to bring former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia election interference case to trial in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, arguing that her office has fully complied with a congressional subpoena related to a federal funding probe. “[N]othing that you do will derail the efforts of […]
The Georgia prosecutor overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case in that state promised Saturday that “the train is coming” for him despite defense efforts to derail her office’s pursuit of charges against the former president and nearly two dozen co-defendants. Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis’s remarks came after a court challenge centering on a […]