Donald Trump is facing calls both from his allies and from within his own campaign to pull his endorsement from scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, according to four people familiar with the discussions. read more
Time and again in his early political career, Reagan was on the wrong side of history. He opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. In his race for governor of California in 1966, he opposed the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. In a 1971 phone call with President Richard Nixon, Reagan made racist remarks about African delegates to the United Nations, calling them "monkeys" and saying they were still "uncomfortable wearing shoes". He did not attend Martin Luther King's funeral, even though many Republicans did, and opposed the Martin Luther King Jr public holiday right up until the day he signed it into law. A generation later, Trump dispensed with Reagan's dog whistle and replaced it with a bullhorn, deploying blatantly racist stereotypes in pursuit of the same goal.
The number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the state's 2021 ban on abortion care -- far outpacing a slower rise in maternal mortality across the nation, a new investigation of federal public health data finds. From 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time period, read more
"Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine's editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine's standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures," a spokesperson for New York magazine told Status in a statement. read more
Election workers are less worried former President Donald Trump will prosecute them if he wins the November election and more worried they'll be physically attacked if he loses, according to a new report. read more
Dotard isn't going to abandon a kindred spirit.
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