Experts are calling it “the worst voter suppression bill ever seriously considered by Congress.” As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a Trump-backed voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, millions of citizens who lack easy access to its required forms of documentation are now at risk of disenfranchisement. “Republicans are singularly focused on making it harder to vote and pursuing this MAGA fever dream,” explains Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “It is the overarching goal of the Republican Party now to make it harder to vote.” The groups most at risk of disenfranchisement include people who have changed their names after marriage, older voters who never received birth certificates, rural […]

As Israel continues to pummel Lebanon in its resumed war against the country and the Hezbollah paramilitary, we get an update from Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. “If you compare this particular war to the last one, less than two years ago, what happened in the past three weeks is what happened in the past seven or eight months,” says Chehayeb, who describes masses of displaced people and fears of an imminent ground invasion. “There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country, and it doesn’t appear that these strikes will stop anytime soon.”

A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chavez’s history of grooming and abuse have sent shockwaves through the labor movement and California, where officials are already moving to cancel or rename public celebrations planned in his honor. Chavez is also accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95. Huerta says the assaults led to the births of two of her children. She concealed the pregnancies and had kept the children’s paternity secret until now. Huerta spoke for the first time at length about her new public disclosures in an exclusive […]

U.S. Offensive Seeks to Reopen Strait of Hormuz as Hegseth Confirms He’s Seeking $200B for Iran War, Iran Warns of “Zero Restraint” If U.S. or Israel Attacks Energy Infrastructure Again, Death Toll from Recent Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Passes 1,000 Amid Fierce Fighting in South, Israel Reopens Rafah Crossing for Small Number of Palestinians to Seek Medicare Care Abroad, Protesters in Tel Aviv Demand Israel End Wars with Iran and Lebanon, Trump Jokes About Pearl Harbor in Meeting with Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi, 19-Year-Old Dies of Apparent Suicide in Florida ICE Jail, Nashville Immigration Reporter Estefany Rodríguez Released on Bond, Bronx High School Student Dylan Lopez Contreras Returns to New York After 10 Months in ICE Jail, […]

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, less than an hour after it began Wednesday, after Bondi repeatedly declined to say whether she would comply with a subpoena requiring her to appear for a sworn deposition on April 14. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who attended the briefing, said Bondi will have to answer “why there are still 3 million documents being hidden” and “why there was a cover-up of those files that implicated Donald Trump.” Khanna also comments on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, noting that Trump’s military actions are “a total betrayal of his promise that he was going to focus on […]