“Matt Lauer Is Planning His Comeback,” a headline at Vanity Fair announced on Tuesday. Plucked from a short report in Page Six about Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s embattled lawyer, the rumor of Lauer’s comeback was dropped in a buzzy description of the famous customers at an expensive Upper East Side restaurant, an…
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“I’m done being bullied,” Stormy Daniels said during a Tuesday appearance on The View. The interview covered a broad range of subjects, from her credibility to her motivation for going public with her encounter with Donald Trump, why she remained silent, and the threats she said were made against her by an…
The Senate is expected to change its rules to allow Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to bring her newborn onto the chamber floor, Politico reports.
Michael Cohen negotiated a $1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model on behalf of a Republican fundraiser in 2017, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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According to a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the number of women who died in Texas from pregnancy-related complications is less than half of what was originally estimated in a much-covered 2016 study.
Wendy Vitter, Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning.
Since it was approved in 2002, “permanent contraceptive” device Essure has been the subject of thousands of complaints from women who have had the device implanted. Complaints about the device range from headaches to hair loss, brain fog, heavy bleeding, abdominal pain, perforation of the uterus, and even pregnancy…
Our Bodies, Ourselves, the revolutionary feminist health book first published in the 1970s, will cease publishing, NPR reports.
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Kevin Williamson’s short-lived tenure at The Atlantic came to an end on Thursday, after editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced to staff that the magazine and the conservative columnist would be “parting ways.” The firing came after Media Matters excavated comments he made during a 2014 podcast, Mad Dog and…
News that Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s President Cecile Richards met with Ivanka Trump in the weeks following Donald Trump’s inauguration broke last year; Politico reported in 2017 that Richards had met with Ivanka Trump to “seek common ground on the contentious issue of abortion.”
“An asterisk is such a small punctuation mark but it represents a huge terrible thing,” Emma Sulkowicz recently told Jezebel. Sulkowicz was referring to a February performance during which Sulkowicz stood in front of works by Chuck Close, recently accused of sexual harassment, their body covered with asterisks.
Jaelynn Willey, the 16-year-old girl shot at her Maryland high school earlier this week, died on Thursday evening according to a statement from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office. “Jaelynn Rose Willey died surrounded by her family,” the Sheriff’s office said. “It is with heavy hearts and great sadness we provide…
“Some are born Janeites, some achieve Janeism, and some have Janeism thrust upon them,” Ted Scheinman writes in his charming new book, Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. For Scheinman, his temporary entry into Austen fandom was a bit of all three, done “half willingly and half accidentally.”
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The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra on Tuesday. The conflict at the heart of the case is what kind of speech the state can impose on licensed and unlicensed reproductive healthcare clinics, specifically anti-abortion crisis clinics with a …
During remarks on the opioid crisis in New Hampshire on Monday, President Donald Trump promised “a large-scale rollout of commercials that show how bad it is for the kids.”
