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Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on November 15, 2019. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One takeaway includes a dramatic, real-time attack by President Trump. The most dramatic moment of former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s appearance before the House impeachment inquiry on Friday actually happenedContinue reading “4 main takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch’s impeachment hearing”

Stefanik questions Yovanovitch on Friday. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Rep. Elise Stefanik is accusing the House intel chair of treating Republicans unfairly, but all he did was try to enforce the rules. At one point during Friday’s impeachment hearing with former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA)Continue reading “How a bad-faith attack on Schiff made its way from Twitter to Trump’s lips”

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It all happened in a group foster home. There was screaming, cursing, and a head slammed against the wall. A public defender called it “egregious.” Another called it “horrific.” In a video that aired Thursday on Tucson’s KOLD news station, a white sheriff’s deputy is seen tackling and wrestling a black teenContinue reading “Disturbing video shows an Arizona sheriff’s deputy body slam a quadruple amputee”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders about Medicare-for-all legislation on Capitol Hill. | AFP via Getty Images What Elizabeth Warren would do on health care in her first 100 days as president. In her new health care agenda for the first 100 days of her presidency, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) makes a tacitContinue reading “Elizabeth Warren’s new Medicare-for-all plan starts out with a public option”

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey at an Entrepreneurial Refugee Network event in the UK. | Matt Crossick/PA Images via Getty Images Twitter just released the first iteration of its policies banning political ads — and appears to have changed course on CEO Jack Dorsey’s declaration it would ban issue ads. Twitter’s public honeymoon after its announcementContinue reading “Twitter is walking into a minefield with its political ads ban”

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives for the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on November 15, 2019. | Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Probably not, but here’s why it likely doesn’t matter anyway. When Marie Yovanovitch, the former ambassador to Ukraine, testified on Capitol Hill FridayContinue reading “Did Trump just commit witness tampering? I asked 7 legal experts.”

The consequences of climate change can be weird and apocalyptic. You can find evidence of a changing climate everywhere on Earth. But nowhere are the changes more dramatic than in the Arctic. Our world’s northern polar region is warming twice as fast as the global average. And the consequences are easy to spot. On average,Continue reading “Melting permafrost in the Arctic is unlocking diseases and warping the landscape”

Most fare evaders are one-time offenders, according to research from the Public Transport Research Group in Australia. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images New York City has increased policing to curb fare dodging. It’s resulted in outrage and protests from some riders. When Allure editor Rosemary Donahue witnessed New York City transit workers installing cameras in frontContinue reading “Fare evasion costs cities millions. But will cracking down on it solve anything?”

Norris Henderson, an activist for criminal justice reform including voting rights for former prisoners, in New Orleans, on November 7, 2019. | Akasha Rabut for Vox Ex-prisoners are getting their voting rights back. But the backlash has already started. Shauntelle Mitchell waited in her local polling station in Slidell, Louisiana, and contemplated leaving. The OctoberContinue reading “The battle for voting rights in the age of mass incarceration”

Alex Wong/Getty The investigation is now complete. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted or got guilty pleas from 34 people and three companies during their lengthy investigation. That group is composed of six former Trump advisers, 26 Russian nationals, three Russian companies, one California man, and one London-based lawyer. Seven of these people (including fiveContinue reading “All of Robert Mueller’s indictments and plea deals in the Russia investigation”