The NFL doesn’t think football players have the right to kneel in protest while the national anthem is playing at games. Teams with players who kneel will now have to pay fines.
Today, Irish citizens are voting on a referendum to repeal the country’s abortion ban.
Mike Pompeo’s budget hearing couldn’t have happened on a worse day for American diplomacy. The US secretary of state appeared before the Senate’s Foreign Relations committee today, just after Donald Trump cancelled a much-anticipated summit with North Korea. The news was a blow for US strategy in the region, and a source of humor in the committee room.
Donald Trump headlined an anti-abortion gala on Tuesday. His speech praised activists working to limit abortion’s availability in the United States, quoted the Bible, and credited the members of congress in the audience.
Headlining the May 22 Susan B. Anthony List gala dinner, an event organized by an anti-abortion organization, Donald Trump gave shoutouts to a long list of male attendees.
Blocking people on Twitter can be pretty satisfying—who says you have to listen to your trolls?
So far this year, there have been 18 school shootings in the US. In the deadliest, 18 people were killed in Marshall County, Kentucky. The next month, seventeen were killed in Parkland, Florida. Thirteen were killed last week in Santa Fe, Texas.
Gender equality is within arm’s length—at least in secondary schools. Across the globe, the enrollment of boys and girls in schools (before university) is nearly equal: For every 100 boys enrolled in high school (pdf, p.11) so are 98 girls, according to UNESCO’s statistics institute Global Education Monitoring report.
It took two and a half months, but the “ultimate dream” scenario Steve Bannon had hoped for is finally a reality: Italy is all set to have a coalition government led by the Five Star Movement with the Northern League, two parties that ran on right-wing, populist, xenophobic, and anti-European agendas.
“Amazing with Kids,” one tourist wrote enthusiastically in her review of Fernando de Noronha, an island of 3,016 people off the coast of the most eastern part of Brazil.
“I love kids. I have kids and grandkids,” Donald Trump said shortly after his inauguration, discussing his struggle dealing with undocumented minors and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). But while the president has called children “beautiful” several times, he is likely also aware that they don’t vote, and they’re not very deep-pocketed political donors.
One year ago today, US deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein made an announcement that has helped define Donald Trump’s presidency—he appointed former FBI chief Robert Mueller as a special counsel to probe possible collusion between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia.
On May 16, the Senate Committee of the Judiciary released a transcript of Donald Trump Jr.’s Sept. 7, 2017 testimony about a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Among the things it reveals: For a 40-year-old, Trump Jr. doesn’t remember much.
This post has been updated on May 17.
Updated on May 14, 2:50 pm EST.
Like dozens of other countries in the world, the US is celebrating Mother’s Day this coming Sunday. Except for Christmas, this is the holiday on which Americans spend most. This year, a projected $23.1 billion will be splurged on gifts for mom, for a day marked in some way or the other by 86% of the country.
One of the dangerous consequences of violating the Iran deal is a loss of credibility for the US, say critics of Donald Trump’s decision including former president Barack Obama. Iran and all other parties have respected the deal’s terms, they point out, making the US look like an unreliable international partner.
Introducing his plan to reduce prescription drug prices in America today, Donald Trump said his government would focus on “tougher negotiation, more competition, and much lower prices.”
On April 18, a class of eighth graders at the Great Hearts Monte Vista North charter school in San Antonio, Texas, received a homework assignment that would spark a nationwide controversy. A worksheet, titled “The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View,” asked students to list the negative and positive aspects of slavery.
Today is Confederate Memorial Day in the US state of South Carolina. State offices are closed and all non-essential state employees get the day off. The holiday was invented by a group of women in Georgia in 1874 to remember the end of the Civil War and “to pay honor to those who died defending the life, honor and happiness of the Southern women.”
Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Iran deal today (May 8) runs the risk of dangerous consequences—not just for the nation but for diplomatic relations across the globe, including that for North Korea. And, arguably, there is no one more qualified to defend the deal, and break down the risks in abandoning it, than former president Barack Obama, who led the signing of the 2015 agreement that Trump just broke.
Many have already been there: You stand in line for an order of fries only to get to the counter, see a sign about nutritional facts noting that said fries contain more than a day’s worth of calories—and opt for a salad instead.
Donald Trump is not happy with critics of Gina Haspel, his choice for CIA director. Haspel was nominated to replace Mike Pompeo at the CIA, and is scheduled to have a confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
After Iowa governor Kim Reynolds signed the state’s new limitations on abortion into law on May 4, it is now illegal to abort in the state once a fetus’s heartbeat is detected. Heartbeats can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy—sometimes before women even realize that they are pregnant.
