by Common Dreams | Jun 10, 2022 | Quick Facts
The previously unseen video footage, testimony, and documentary evidence presented during a primetime U.S. House hearing Thursday night made the case that the January 6 assault on the Capitol last year was part of an organized attempt—spearheaded by former President...
by Common Dreams | Jun 8, 2022 | Quick Facts, Politics, Corruption & Criminality
The U.S. House of Representatives panel investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection—provoked by then-President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen from him—will launch a series of six public and nationally televised hearings...
by The Conversation | Jun 6, 2022 | Politics, Corruption & Criminality, Quick Facts, Racism (Us vs Them)
In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful. You read that right: The U.S. Supreme Court recently barred federal courts from requiring states to fix their newly adopted, but unlawful, congressional maps before the...
by Common Dreams | Jun 5, 2022 | Quick Facts, Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Allies of former President Donald Trump sought to have voting machines seized by armed private contractors in the weeks after the 2020 election, according to new reporting. As the Los Angeles Times reported June 4th, draft executive orders dated December 16 and 17,...
by KFF Health News | May 30, 2022 | Quick Facts, Politics, Corruption & Criminality
Close to midnight on Nov. 12, 2020, Bisi Bennett was sitting on the couch in her pajamas and feeling uncomfortable. She was about seven months pregnant with her first child, Dorian, and the thought that she could be in labor didn’t even cross her mind. Then, she felt...
by KFF Health News | May 24, 2022 | Quick Facts, Progress & Solutions
When Greg and Sugar Bull were ready to start a family, health challenges necessitated that they work with a gestational surrogate. The woman who carried and gave birth to their twins lived two states away. The pregnancy went well until the surrogate experienced high...