In the Mississippi Delta—the poorest region in the poorest state—the doctors, nurses, and administrators have sacrificed and improvised, month after month.
Gun manufacturers will be partly irrelevant to the future of gun control. Like it or not, ghost guns mean policing gun violence will be about going after gun offenders.
SCOTUS will consider two cases about race in college admissions: Harvard (private) & UNC (public).
Emotions may run high.
We argue neither for nor against but merely note that 18% of black people are committed to consideration of race in admissions and 62% are against it. pic.twitter.com/AVwIHwaZl1
Ana Iris Simón lost her job at Vice while writing her debut novel. The book became a lightning rod in Spain, and has been interpreted as “a questioning of the dogmas of liberalism,” to an extent she hadn't anticipated. https://t.co/TU9v5qGiFS
As recently as 2015, Black men in the US were much less likely than American Indian and White men to die from drug overdoses. Since then, the fatality rate among Black men has more than tripled (+213%) and they're now the demographic group most at risk. https://t.co/EnMxzlR5Wnpic.twitter.com/eOQ5AQvFyd
[....] Senators voted 49-51, falling short of 60 votes needed to advance the legislation.
The vote will trigger an attempt by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to change the Senate’s rules to get rid of the 60-vote hurdle for voting rights legislation, while leaving it in place for other issues. [....]
Pres Biden, in the longest news conference in presidential history, made news, pushed back on critics, called out lies, took responsibility for mistakes he believes he made, expressed surprise at GOP, talked foreign policy and didn't lash out on reporters.
We've updated our story about the Fort Worth synagogue hostage crisis here https://t.co/x9NLNgBVAg
The latest: Talks are reportedly underway with the attacker. And he reportedly demanded the release of a woman convicted of terrorism who made antisemitic outbursts at her trial
