• On the Origins of Arizona’s New Old Abortion Ban

    Today on TAP: A brief look at the 1864 territory and legislature whose strictures Arizonans must heed today

  • Voters Don’t Want 19th-Century Abortion Laws

    Sasha Abramsky Arizona’s Supreme Court ruling reinstating a draconian abortion ban puts Republicans at odds with the American public.

  • Biden in Florida: Voters will ‘hold Trump accountable’ for abortion ban

    President Joe Biden slammed former President Donald Trump for “making a deal with MAGA extremists” that led to the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision tearing down federal abortion protections included in Roe v. Wade. Biden has spent months tying Trump and the three Supreme Court justices he nominated to a rash of state abortion bans enacted […]

  • Newsom calls out Republican abortion policies in new ad running in Alabama

    In Gov. Gavin Newsom's new political advertisement, two anxious young women in an SUV drive toward the Alabama state line. The passenger says she thinks they're going to make it, before a siren blares and the flashing lights of a police car appear in the rearview mirror. "Miss," a police officer who approaches the window says to the panicked driver, "I’m gonna need you to step out of the vehicle and take a pregnancy test." The fictional video is the latest in a series of visceral advertisements...

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    Voters to decide primary runoffs in Alabama's new 2nd Congressional District

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters are set to decide party nominees for the state’s 2nd Congressional District. The outcome of the runoffs will set the match for the closely watched November race. For the Democratic nomination, Shomari Figures faces state Rep. Anthony Daniels. Figures was the deputy chief of staff and counselor to U.S.

  • Fox News Host Fact-Checks Republican Talking Point on Abortion

    Fox News host Howard Kurtz on Sunday corrected a conservative journalist's claims about pro-abortion Democrats supporting infanticide, a claim he has frequently corrected on-air in recent months.During a Sunday edition of his Fox News program, Media Buzz, Kurtz hosted journalist Caroline Downey, of the conservative magazine National Review, for a discussion about abortion laws in the wake of the recent Arizona Supreme Court decision. The ruling from last week allowed a law banning abortion from...

  • Tulsi Gabbard repeats false Hillary Clinton ‘grooming’ claim in new book

    Ex-Democrat, reported contender for Trump running mate, sued Clinton for Russia remark but dropped caseTulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman, has repeated a discredited claim about Hillary Clinton that previously saw Gabbard lodge then drop a $50m defamation suit in a new book published as she seeks to be named Donald Trump’s running mate for US president.Accusing Democrats of making up “a conspiracy theory that [Trump] was ‘colluding’ with the Russians to win the election” in 2016,...

  • Pro-Russia governor of Gagauzia falsely claims Moldovans don't want to join EU

    Public opinion polls in Moldova demonstrate consistent majority support for

  • Arizona’s New Abortion Ban Echoes Civil War-Era Restrictions

    The law specifies that anyone who "provides, supplies and administers" an abortion procedure or drugs to induce it faces two to five years in prison.

  • 'He has a tape recording': Fox News host defends Michael Cohen's claims against Trump

    Fox News host Eric Shawn argued that Michael Cohen's claim that Donald Trump made hush money payments to influence the 2016 election was more believable because he had a tape recording of the former president. During an interview on Sunday, former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky asserted that prosecutors in the case had an uphill battle because their star witnesses were former attorney Michael Cohen and adult film actress Stormy Daniels. Trump is accused of falsifying business records...

  • Anti-Trump Republicans target Fox News in $50M campaign to swing voters to Biden

    A prominent group of Republicans who oppose Donald Trump are on a mission to convince voters who backed the former president in both 2016 and 2020 to switch their support to President Joe Biden in 2024 — and they're spending a lot of money to help in their effort. Republican Voters Against Trump (RVAT) announced a $50 million multi-platform ad campaign that is designed "both to troll the twice-impeached, four times-indicted ex-president and to genuinely reach out to his most loyal supporters,"...

  • Facebook's News Content Blocking Negatively Affects Political Discourse, Claims New Studies

    New studies claim that the absence of news content on Facebook has undermined political discourse on the platform.