House Majority Whip James Clyburn on Wednesday blasted Sen. Lindsey Graham over his comments that aid to Black farmers in the Covid-19 relief bill are “reparations” and called for his fellow South Carolinian to get back in MORE
The numbers are stark – and startling. Around the world, almost 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence at least once in their lifetime, according to a new report released by the MORE
Alaska will allow anyone in the state over the age of 16 to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Michael Dunleavy (R) announced Tuesday night, adding the measure is “effective immediately.” Alaska is the first state to allow MORE
“It was the size of a bowling ball but exploded like 440 pounds of TNT“ A fireball, traveling at an estimated 42,000 miles per hour, was spotted over the skies of northern Vermont and Canada MORE
Twitter on Monday filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), saying that his office launched an investigation into the social media giant because it banned former President Trump from its platform. Driving the news: Twitter MORE
A federal judge ruled Monday that the so-called “QAnon shaman” who was charged in the Capitol insurrection is too dangerous to release and must stay in jail while his case moves forward. Judge Royce Lamberth said MORE
President Biden will sign executive orders Monday establishing a Gender Policy Council and directing the Department of Education to review the federal law Title IX, according to administration officials. The Biden administration is signaling its MORE
Free Range Free Chat is all animals all the time and a free chat thread, because animals are news, pets and non-pets, even those pesky mammals we call human. During Women’s History Month, we present MORE
It took a direct call from President Biden and significant concessions to get the senator on board. The Senate was more than two hours into a vote on Friday afternoon as Jon Tester and several MORE
Amanda Gorman, whose recitation of a poem about this country’s halting progress in matters of race and equality at President Biden’s inauguration vaulted her onto a national stage, said Friday she had been followed by MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, welcome to another Free Chat where the discussion is only limited by. . . . . ..oh wait, it’s not limited. Anything goes and everything stays, WITHIN reason; long videos and MORE
The Department of Defense inspector general has issued a scathing review of Rep. Ronny Jackson during his time serving as the top White House physician, concluding that he made “sexual and denigrating” comments about a MORE
Infrastructure failures following bitterly cold temperatures caused dozens of water mains to burst and freeze, leaving thousands without running water for weeks When the extreme cold first touched the South in mid-February, Texas officials ― MORE
On Free Range Free Chat it’s all animals all the time, not just mammals and not just reptiles and not just amphibians, it’s the animal kingdom outside and inside your house. Since Spring is about MORE
The lawyer for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny confirms that his client has been moved from a Moscow jail to one of Russia’s most notorious prison camps to serve his sentence. Navalny, who survived a MORE
“We have no time to waste,” Biden said President Joe Biden on Saturday called for the Senate to quickly pass his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which the House approved early Saturday morning. “I hope MORE
Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity. There’s no place like home—unless you’re Elon Musk. A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship, which may someday send humans to Mars, is, according to Musk, likely MORE
The House of Representatives voted early Saturday morning to approve President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package, a major step toward enacting the first legislative priority of the new administration as the devastating fallout from MORE
William “Cody” Anderson, 78, an iconic leader in Black radio in Philadelphia for decades, died Saturday, Feb. 20, of complications from COVID-19, his family said. Mr. Anderson was the cohost of Electric Magazine on Saturday MORE
In an analysis released Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration said the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine has met the requirements for emergency use authorization. The efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against MORE
The meeting is the latest indication that the GOP is keen on keeping Trump-era immigration politics and using them as a spear against Biden. Donald Trump and his allies are putting President Joe Biden’s sweeping MORE
George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures are partnering with Sports Illustrated Studios to produce a docuseries about sports journalist Jon Wertheim’s cover story detailing the decades-long abuse scandal in the athletic department at Ohio State University. Wertheim MORE
Welcome to Free Range, our new weekly open thread about animals; this week THE story is Texas and surrounding areas and its animal inhabitants who are cold and colder. What started as a rare cold MORE
By taking part in the riots at the U.S. Capitol, Pennsylvania officer Joseph W. Fischer did not just break the laws he was tasked with enforcing, the FBI says — he was allegedly at “the MORE