Florida Lawmaker Proposes Abortion Ban That Mimics Texas SB-8 Law

A Florida legislator has proposed banning most abortions in the state and allowing lawsuits against doctors who violate it, mirroring a Texas law that instituted the strictest abortion restrictions in the U.S. It wasn’t immediately clear how much support the bill would garner. The Republican-controlled Florida legislature has shown significant support...

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Price Hikes Will Likely Continue Through the End of 2021, Fed Signals

Until now, leaders of the Federal Reserve have done their best to hew steadfast to the narrative that the rising prices across the country that are causing families to cut back on spending, delay purchases and rethink their monthly budgets will soon fade away. But months of economic data have disproved—or at least delayed—that theory and Wednesday’s...

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Biden Administration Grapples With How to Send Aid to Afghanistan Without Supporting the Taliban

When President Joe Biden stood in front of the iconic green marble and gold foil backdrop to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, he declared that the U.S. had ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan and opened a new era of “relentless diplomacy, of using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting...

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The FDA Authorized a Booster Shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine—But Not For Everyone

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sept. 22 authorized booster doses for certain people already vaccinated against COVID-19 but at high risk of infection, including those over age 65 and those who are more likely to get exposed to the disease, such as health care, frontline, emergency and transportation workers, among others. The booster...

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Bipartisan Congressional Talks on Police Reform Collapse

(WASHINGTON) — Bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without an agreement, top bargainers from both parties said Wednesday, marking the collapse of an effort that began after killings of unarmed Black people by officers sparked protests across the U.S. “It was clear that we were not making the progress that we...

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Dr. Lorna Breen’s Family: Doctors Shouldn’t Be ‘Punished’ for Seeking Support

When Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency-room physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, died by suicide in April 2020, her family and colleagues were cratered. She had been on the front lines of the huge, early COVID-19 surge before contracting the virus herself, and she confided in family that the anxiety, exhaustion and uncertainty were overwhelming—for...

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Tabitha Brown Is the Gentlest Person on the Internet

Tabitha Brown was struck with a familiar wave of nausea. She’d grown used to this feeling, a warning her body sent her when she had a vision of the future and was called to share the message. This time, she’d had a dream that her co-worker Miss Stella had sliced off two fingers at the Macy’s warehouse where they worked in the mid-2000s. When she told...

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A New Campaign Asks Facebook Users to Log Off. Will It Have an Impact?

A coalition of advocacy groups is calling on Facebook and Instagram users to log out of both platforms for one day in November to hold the company to account for “irresponsibility,” in a new campaign launched Wednesday. The Facebook Logout campaign takes aim at what it says is the company’s role in a series of recent scandals, including the Jan. 6...

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A New Campaign Asks Facebook Users To Log Off. Will It Have an Impact?

A coalition of advocacy groups is calling on Facebook and Instagram users to log out of both platforms for one day in November to hold the company to account for “irresponsibility,” in a new campaign launched Wednesday. The Facebook Logout campaign takes aim at what it says is the company’s role in a series of recent scandals, including the Jan. 6...

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Five Reasons Why Infrastructure Is Dead—And One Why It’s Not

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Remember the good ol’ days of 2019, before COVID-19 changed almost everything? Back when Joe Biden was the affable former Vice President who promised to bring people together? When his advisers insisted time...

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