Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, has fought a battle with conservatives in his party for the speakership. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Rachel Paine Caufield, Drake University Second in the line of presidential succession after the vice president, the speaker of the House occupies a central role in our national government. But what is
Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia China is currently in the midst of a severe wave of COVID infections and deaths. We don’t know exactly how bad it is because of significant gaps in official reporting, but by all indications, things are dire. News reports suggest hospitals and mortuaries are overflowing. So how
Jonathan Custodio, The City This article was originally published on Dec 16 5:00am EST by THE CITY Big chain drugstores have shut down at least three locations in the East Bronx since February, including a Rite Aid and a Walgreens in Soundview and a Rite Aid in Westchester Square. In addition to fulfilling
Cara Anthony December 16, 2022 EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — As a child, Mykael Ash enjoyed picking up seashells near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His grandfather lives there, so trips to the beach were a regular part of life. “It’s peaceful energy,” Ash said. “Especially when you put that seashell to your ear.”
Originally published by The 19th For the past five years, researcher Steph Herold has studied portrayals of abortion in television and film as part of the Abortion Onscreen initiative. The latest study by Herold, a research analyst at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) at the University of California-San Francisco’s Bixby Center
Lynn Ma, NYCity News Service, Chalkbeat New York This story originally appeared on Dec. 13 in the NYCity News Service, run by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Logan Lane was 11 when she got her first smartphone. Like many kids, she started using Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. When she was
by Lynzy Billing ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For more than two decades, the U.S. military has been barred from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit “gross violations of internationally recognized
This paper aims to shed light on a very intense period of relations between Albania and the Soviet Union (USSR), focusing on the period from 1948 with the intensification of Albania’s relations with the USSR until the termination of diplomatic relations in 1959. The main objective of this paper is to know the
by Andrew Pantazi, The TributaryDecember 9, 2022 According to the version of events that Jacksonville’s city lawyers told a federal court, the City Council passed a redistricting map last month that carefully considered many factors. The council wanted a map that was “as logical and compact a geographical pattern as possible”, one that
Many people go their entire lives knowing little about their relatives’ childhoods and formative experiences. Westend61/Getty Images Elizabeth Keating, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them? This question has puzzled me