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Black moms are more likely to die in childbirth. Will Congress do anything about it?

From the Left

Los Angeles Times

From the Center

Bush testifies before Congress about racist treatment Black birthing people face during childbirth, pregnancy

The Hill

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Biden HHS Restores Trans Health Protections in Reversal of Trump Policy

The Biden administration will reverse Trump-era rules excluding transgender people from the Affordable Care Act’s anti-discrimination protections, the Department of Health and Human...

From the Center

U.S. Will Protect Gay And Transgender People Against Discrimination In Health Care

NPR (Online News)

From the Right

Biden HHS reverses Trump-era policy limiting transgender health rights

Biden bans discrimination against LGBTQ people in healthcare

From the Left

LGBTQ Nation

cybersecurity, energy, Colonial Pipeline hack

Biden Plans Executive Order After Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack

President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order strengthening cybersecurity for federal agencies and contractors after last week's hacking of the Colonial Pipeline, the...

From the Center

U.S. Pipeline Shutdown Exposes Cyber Threat to Energy Sector

Wall Street Journal (News)

From the Left

Biden Plans an Order to Strengthen Cyberdefenses. Will It Be Enough?

New York Times (News)

From the Right

Concerns mount over Biden's new cybersecurity executive order following Colonial Pipeline hack

Washington Examiner

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Happy Mother's Day 2021

Bipartisan Group Reaching Agreement On Key Police Reform Issues

Perspectives: Lower Job Numbers Prompt Debate Over Federal Aid

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News from the Left

Elections

The making of a myth

Key elements of the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump took shape in an airplane hangar here two years earlier,...

Washington Post

Life During COVID-19

US ‘turning the corner’ on pandemic but pressure grows to help other nations

The US is approaching a turning point where Covid vaccinations are sharply reducing infection and hospitalization rates, key figures in the fight against...

The Guardian

Economic Policy

Biden touts economic recovery steps as more American Rescue Plan funds become available

President Joe Biden said Monday that more than $350 billion will be sent to states and localities to get public employees laid off when governments had to...

CBS News (Online)

Facts and Fact Checking

Fact-checking Biden’s claim about hunger 'sharply' dropping

FACT CHECK

President Joe Biden credits the American Rescue Plan for helping Americans recover from the pandemic and economic fallout, including those who have...

PolitiFact

Russia

Biden to discuss Russian ransomware hackers with Putin and suggests Moscow bears ‘some responsibility’

President Joe Biden has announced he will be speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, given the hackers...

The Independent

Democratic Party

‘We May Not Have a Full Two Years’: Democrats’ Plans Hinge on Good Health

On March 21, 1950, an Illinois congressman named Ralph Church suddenly slumped in his seat while testifying before a House committee. His colleagues rushed...

New York Times (News)

Violence in America

Suspect identified in Times Square shooting that left 4-year-old and two others injured

The man suspected of a shooting in New York City's Times Square that injured three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, has been identified but is still...

NBC News (Online)

What Liz Cheney And Donald Trump Both Know

Safety and Sanity During COVID-19

By now, most Republican politicians must understand in their hearts the terms of the Trump bargain. But currently, only two are very clear about what it...

BuzzFeed News

Fauci Says U.S. Can Relax Mask Mandates, Be ‘More Liberal’ As Vaccination Rates Increase

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Sunday the country could “start being more liberal” with mask mandates as COVID-19...

HuffPost

Media Bias

Facebook’s oversight board puts the power back in the platform’s hands to decide Trump’s fate. History tells us that’s dangerous.

The Facebook Oversight Board just announced its decision to uphold the suspension of former President Donald Trump in response to his actions on January 6....

Media Matters

Economic Policy

‘It's not phony’: Biden hungry for a jobs deal with Republicans

The Biden White House this week will make its most concerted push yet to find a middle ground with Republicans on the president’s massive infrastructure...

Politico

LGBT Rights

Biden administration restores transgender health protections, reversing Trump policy

The U.S. will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care, the Biden administration announced Monday, reversing a Trump-era...

CBS News (Online)

Immigration

Biden finally raised the refugee cap. Now comes the hard part.

After months of indecision and blowback from within his own party, President Joe Biden has finally raised the cap on refugee admissions for 2021 to 62,500...

Vox

Republicans tried to overturn the election. We can’t just forget that

America prefers to look forward rather than back. We’re a land of second acts. We move on. This can be a strength. We don’t get bogged down in...

The Guardian

Broad agreement in U.S. – even among partisans – on which news outlets are part of the ‘mainstream media’

McCarthy formally endorses Stefanik for Cheney’s leadership spot

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) officially backed Rep. Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) to replace Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) as the Republican conference...

Washington Post

News from the Center

Violence in America

There Have Been, On Average, 10 Mass Shootings In The U.S. Each Week This Year

When a man walked into a birthday party in Colorado Springs, Colo., over the weekend, killing six people and then himself, it was the deadliest mass...

NPR (Online News)

Media Industry

DATA

The term “mainstream media” has long been used to refer to established journalism outlets in the United States. In recent years, it has also been used in a...

Pew Research Center

Sports

What it was like to report from inside the NBA’s pandemic bubble

As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Ben Golliver, the national NBA writer for The Washington Post, spent three months alone in the NBA’s “bubble” in Disney...

Poynter

Coronavirus

Vaccine maker BioNTech says no need to waive patents

The head of German pharmaceutical company BioNTech said Monday that there is no need to waive patents on coronavirus vaccines because manufacturers will be...

Associated Press

Housing and Homelessness

Californians: Here’s why your housing costs are so high

Flu cases were at an all-time low during the 2020-2021 season. What experts say to expect in next season's vaccine.

Tenants and landlords are hurting, homelessness is skyrocketing and the housing market is out of control. The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t the only reason for...

CalMatters

Politics

California scores staggering $75B budget surplus

California’s budget is in the black — by a staggering amount. A state that expected perhaps the most severe budget crunch in American history instead...

The Hill

Coronavirus

WHO classifies triple-mutant Covid variant from India as global health risk

A World Health Organization official said Monday it is reclassifying the highly contagious triple-mutant Covid variant spreading in India as a “variant of...

CNBC

China

Biden Looks for Defense Hotline With China

The Biden administration is increasingly looking to avoid accidental escalation with China, a senior defense official said, by cooperating on channels to...

Foreign Policy

Criminal Justice

Bernie Sanders wants to constrain police union negotiating powers

Sen. Bernie Sanders told "Axios on HBO" he'd support legislation to prevent police unions from negotiating benefits and disciplinary procedures that shield...

Axios

Facts and Fact Checking

Did Pelosi Tweet Use Photo of Wrong Athlete in Tribute to Willie Mays?

FACT CHECK

Claim: On May 6, 2021, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Twitter account shared a 90th birthday tribute to baseball player Willie Mays but included a...

Snopes

Economy and Jobs

What’s behind disappointing job numbers?

The U.S. economy added 266,000 new jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. While that figure shows the country is continuing to recover...

Yahoo! The 360

Healthcare

A year full of social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing and staying at home to prevent coronavirus spread rendered the 2020-2021 influenza season...

USA TODAY

Coronavirus

For Biden, vaccine patent waiver is a test of US leadership

True leadership often involves making hard choices. President Biden’s support for a vaccine patent waiver received mixed reviews. But it signaled a U.S....

Christian Science Monitor

LGBT Rights

Social Media Hate Speech, Harassment 'Significant Problem' For LGBTQ Users: Report

The top social media sites — Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter — are all "effectively unsafe for LGBTQ users," according to a new report by...

NPR (Online News)

PERSPECTIVES BLOG

The Verdict

Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared as a Braver Angels newsletter. To subscribe to Braver Angels,...

John R. Wood Jr.

News from the Right

Education

A Welcome Backlash against Critical Race Theory

Recent weeks have brought welcome pushback against the spread of critical race theory (CRT) and related dogmas of division in our nation’s schools. ...

National Review

Immigration

Caitlyn Jenner Supports Pathway To Citizenship, Says Border Crisis Motivated Gubernatorial Run

California Republican gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner supports a pathway to citizenship for the over 1.75 million unauthorized immigrants working...

The Daily Caller

Economy and Jobs

Biden: Jobless Offered Jobs Must Take Them or Lose Benefits

President Joe Biden on Monday defended himself against critics who say expanded unemployment benefits offered in the COVID-19 relief bill passed in March...

Newsmax (News)

FBI

FBI names 'Darkside' as Colonial Pipeline cyberattacker

The FBI said Monday that the ransomware gang known as "Darkside" was the group responsible for the attack over the weekend that forced the shutdown of the...

Criminal Justice

Georgia Governor Signs Bill Preventing ‘Defund the Police’

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said the “defund the police” movement would endanger Georgian communities and signed a bill into law on May 7, forbidding large...

The Epoch Times

PERSPECTIVES BLOG

“Birthing People” or “Mothers”? Debate Ignites Over Mother’s Day Weekend

“Birthing people” or “mothers”? An...

Julie Mastrine

McCarthy Announces Vote to Oust Liz Cheney from Leadership

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) announced that a vote to oust Representative Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) from GOP leadership will be held on...

National Review

Russia

Biden: ‘No evidence’ Russia hacked Colonial Pipeline, but Putin needs to act

President Biden on Monday said there’s “no evidence” that the Russian government is behind the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack, but that it has a...

New York Post (News)

Middle East

Jerusalem Under Attack As Rockets Are Fired By Hamas

Jerusalem came under attack on Monday, which is also Yom Yerushalayim Day in Israel, as Hamas launched rockets at the city. Yom Yerushalyim...

The Daily Wire

Elections

Former postal worker caught on Election Day for failing to deliver ballots and political mailings

A former postal worker was fined after he was caught with hundreds of pieces of undelivered mail on Election Day, including absentee ballots. Brandon...

Washington Examiner

Media Bias

CNN, Don Lemon and the Cancer of Identity Politics

Hmmm. So over there at my old stomping grounds at CNN, my own former Pennsylvania United States Senator Rick Santorum and my former CNN colleague Don...

NewsBusters

Education

Minnesota Black School Choice Movement ‘Explicitly Rejects’ U.S. Is Racist Nation

A Minnesota school choice movement founded in the black community aims to challenge the “woke” culture narrative that America is a systemically racist...

Breitbart News

Politics

Pro-GOP group 'doubles down' on new campaign targeting Pelosi's 'radical' drug plan

A conservative advocacy group that backs Republican causes is expanding a major ad blitz in dozens of congressional districts controlled by House Democrats...

Energy

Why Gas Prices Could Spike Soon...And Will Biden's Crew Address It Today?