Intense lobbying helped break an impasse between progressives and moderatesHouse Democrats have passed a $1tn bill to rebuild the nation’s ageing infrastructure after months of delay, delivering Joe Biden a long-awaited legislative victory that he boas…
Joe Manchin: who gave you authority to decide the fate of the planet? | Daniel Sherrell
My rage against the senator might consume me if I couldn’t set it down hereLate in the evening on Friday 15 October an alert appeared on my phone that seemed at last to portend the end of the world. Two weeks before the UN climate summit in Glasgow – a…
US supreme court to hear oral arguments over Texas abortion law
Biden administration and reproductive rights groups have asked court to block a controversial law banning nearly all terminationsThe US supreme court is set to hear oral arguments over whether Texas can continue to allow private citizens to enforce a c…
Why accounts of Philadelphia train passengers not intervening in a rape spread
A police narrative of people watching a man rape a woman was ‘not true’, but it still ran wild in the press – similar to a 1964 murder that prompted the ‘bystander effect’The news was horrifying, a parable of inhumanity so grim that it was destined to …
Prince Andrew asks US judge to dismiss lawsuit alleging sexual abuse
Duke of York says Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of forcing her to have sex when she was 17, is seeking a ‘payday’ at his expenseIn a filing asking a US judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit in which he is accused of sexually abusing a woman when she was…
It’s clear capitalism isn’t working when US politicians try to bring back child labor | Arwa Mahdawi
There is something very, very wrong with a system that would rather recruit more kids instead of paying better wages and providing more benefits to adultsBack in the good old days American children didn’t sit around playing video games, making TikToks,…
Trump seeking to block call logs and notes from Capitol attack panel
Ex-president sued to stop the National Archives from transmitting documents to the House committee‘Roadmap for a coup’: inside Trump plot to steal the presidencyDonald Trump is trying to block documents including call logs, drafts of remarks and speech…
Reconciliation bill ‘almost there’ after Manchin’s demands to scale it back – live
Psaki on bill: don’t let ‘the perfect be the enemy of the historic’‘Progressives are troubled … with the cuts,’ says Ilhan Omar60% of Americans say oil firms are to blame for the climate crisisSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emai…
Children ages five to 11 will soon be able to get Covid shot, White House says
Country now has ample supplies of the Pfizer shot to vaccinate the roughly 28 million kids who will soon be eligibleChildren age five to 11 in the US will soon be able to get a Covid-19 shot at their pediatrician’s office, local pharmacy and potentiall…
Mental health charity declines donation from Jamie Lynn Spears
Britney Spears’s younger sister has had her offer to give proceeds from her forthcoming book to the non-profit organisation This Is My Brave turned downJamie Lynn Spears’s offer to donate some of the proceeds from her forthcoming memoir to a mental hea…