As the abortion issue takes center stage in the new Bush administration, family planning clinics across the nation are spotting a curious dual trend–more assertive anti-abortion protesters and more willing abortion-rights volunteers. In official Washington, the climate on abortion has unquestionably chilled. Since taking office, President Bush has voiced opposition to research using aborted fetuses, … Read more
Congress is moving to respond to public calls for police reform as protests continue across the country over the death of George Floyd and similar cases of excessive force. A Minneapolis police officer has been charged with murder in killing Floyd, a handcuffed, unarmed Black man, by kneeling on his neck for more than eight … Read more
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords listens as her husband, Mark Kelly, speaks on Capitol Hill on Oct. 2, 2017. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press) Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, who rocketed to the national spotlight when his wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was shot in a failed assassination attempt, announced Tuesday he’s running to finish John McCain’s last … Read more
An internal sense that something was “off” would drive a decades long search for an answer to who and what I was. (Judith Rudd / For The Times) My earliest memory is lying on the floor of my bedroom. I was about 3 and would spend hours in the low light, paging through children’s books. … Read more
This ADU rental with windows galore is a houseplant lover’s dream Apartment hunting can be a brutal, soul-crushing experience in Los Angeles, where inventory is low and rents are up 16% from a year ago. Rarely do renters get everything they want in a competitive housing market, whether it’s on-site parking or basic appliances like … Read more
He took his own type of shot. Comedian Roy Wood Jr. took a jab at former CNN host Don Lemon while he appeared on the network’s annual New Year’s Eve show with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in Times Square. An ecstatic Cohen offered drinks to his guests but Wood refused to participate in CNN’s … Read more
Matt Visser as Bachelor #1, Jedidiah Goodacre as Bachelor #2 and Daniel Zovatto as Rodney in “Woman of the Hour.” (Leah Gallo / Netflix) It’s one of the strangest moments in television history: A notorious serial killer went on ABC’s “The Dating Game” and won a date with Cheryl Bradshaw. Now streaming, Netflix’s new film … Read more
Following the so-called Watts riot in 1965 a major problem appeared–”redlining.” To overcome the crippling effect of major financial institutions’ refusing to make funds available for rebuilding within the riot “control” zone, it was vitally important for the federal government to authorize direct loans to owners of real property that had been damaged or destroyed. … Read more
When Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) came to the House of Representatives in 1972 and was assigned to serve on the House Armed Services Committee, her welcome was about as warm as her home district, Denver, in a howling snowstorm. Then-chairman F. Edward Hebert, an avowed segregationist and an old-bull Dixiecrat, made Schroeder share a seat … Read more
A son of conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has publicly revealed that he is homosexual, while at the same time defending his mother’s political views and the Republican Party’s “family values” campaign theme. “The family values movement is not anti-gay,” said John F. Schlafly, a 41-year-old attorney who lives with his parents in Alton, Ill., and … Read more
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