×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Tennessee lawmakers said Monday they are considering whether to seek one of the nation’s strictest bans even as such laws continue to be struck down in court.At issue is a proposal to prohibit abortion once a pregnancy is detected. While a similar bill stalled in the Republican-controlled Statehouse earlier this year, backers are renewing efforts now to collect enough support ahead of the 2020 legislative session.Advertisement“There may be no other issue that creates this much passion,” said Sen. Mike Bell,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Tennessee lawmakers said Monday they are considering whether to seek one of the nation’s strictest bans even as such laws continue to be struck down in court.At issue is a proposal to prohibit abortion once a pregnancy is detected. While a similar bill stalled in the Republican-controlled Statehouse earlier this year, backers are renewing efforts now to collect enough support ahead of the 2020 legislative session.Advertisement“There may be no other issue that creates this much passion,” said Sen. Mike Bell,...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President and his campaign and the filed a on Tuesday challenging a new California law that requires all presidential and gubernatorial candidates to publicly release their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.The action comes about a week after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) aimed at Trump, who has famously refused to release his tax returns. Newsom, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra are named as defendants in the...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President and his campaign and the filed a on Tuesday challenging a new California law that requires all presidential and gubernatorial candidates to publicly release their tax returns in order to appear on the state’s primary ballot.The action comes about a week after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) aimed at Trump, who has famously refused to release his tax returns. Newsom, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra are named as defendants in the...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Media. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“When I think about things that grow that wildly and that successfully, I don’t think of a media company ― I think of cancer.”- Esther Bergdahl, former Mic employeeAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement, — more than Vice, BuzzFeed or Upworthy. AdvertisementAdvertisementAbsent a business model that would prove Mic a worthy gamble, the company focused on growth early on. “We had to show audience growth,” said a separate former executive at the company. “As a company that was...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Media. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“When I think about things that grow that wildly and that successfully, I don’t think of a media company ― I think of cancer.”- Esther Bergdahl, former Mic employeeAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement, — more than Vice, BuzzFeed or Upworthy. AdvertisementAdvertisementAbsent a business model that would prove Mic a worthy gamble, the company focused on growth early on. “We had to show audience growth,” said a separate former executive at the company. “As a company that was...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×If news accounts are accurate about the facts concerning President ’s dealings with Ukraine, he engaged in a “shocking abuse of power” and “The House has no choice but to pursue an impeachment inquiry,” former Director declared Saturday.Comey blasted Trump’s reported behavior in an interview with ’s at the bipartisan in Nashville, Tennessee.AdvertisementComey also said that if he was still in charge of the FBI he into whether Trump engaged in bribery or quid pro quo dealings during his phone call with...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×If news accounts are accurate about the facts concerning President ’s dealings with Ukraine, he engaged in a “shocking abuse of power” and “The House has no choice but to pursue an impeachment inquiry,” former Director declared Saturday.Comey blasted Trump’s reported behavior in an interview with ’s at the bipartisan in Nashville, Tennessee.AdvertisementComey also said that if he was still in charge of the FBI he into whether Trump engaged in bribery or quid pro quo dealings during his phone call with...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×else in New York Advertisementrenegotiate its contract.My favorite part of this parade is holding the TV mic and saying "Reporting live for ABC7, there's a woman with no shirt on who wants equal pay."— Tana Weingartner (@TanaWeingartner)AdvertisementNever going to stop watching Allie Long eat a page of the USWNT lawsuit while Ashlyn Harris says "pay us bitch." — Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell)according to and from companies.AdvertisementSarah Brafman, a staff attorney at the advocacy group A Better Balance....…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×else in New York Advertisementrenegotiate its contract.My favorite part of this parade is holding the TV mic and saying "Reporting live for ABC7, there's a woman with no shirt on who wants equal pay."— Tana Weingartner (@TanaWeingartner)AdvertisementNever going to stop watching Allie Long eat a page of the USWNT lawsuit while Ashlyn Harris says "pay us bitch." — Megan Greenwell (@megreenwell)according to and from companies.AdvertisementSarah Brafman, a staff attorney at the advocacy group A Better Balance....WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost News. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Nearly 800 former Boy Scouts claimed in a recent lawsuit that the failed to protect them from at the hands of troop leaders and others in positions of power. The suit, filed late Monday, claims the BSA has continually covered up a “pedophilia epidemic within their organization.” At a Tuesday press conference to discuss the lawsuit, attorneys said they have identified nearly 800 men from across the country who have accused at least 350 previously unknown scoutmasters and volunteers of sexual abuse. The accusations...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost News. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Nearly 800 former Boy Scouts claimed in a recent lawsuit that the failed to protect them from at the hands of troop leaders and others in positions of power. The suit, filed late Monday, claims the BSA has continually covered up a “pedophilia epidemic within their organization.” At a Tuesday press conference to discuss the lawsuit, attorneys said they have identified nearly 800 men from across the country who have accused at least 350 previously unknown scoutmasters and volunteers of sexual abuse. The accusations...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×By Members of a secret group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings.In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×By Members of a secret group for current and former Border Patrol agents joked about the deaths of migrants, discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting a detention facility in Texas on Monday and posted a vulgar illustration depicting Rep. engaged in oral sex with a detained migrant, according to screenshots of their postings.In one exchange, group members responded with indifference and wisecracks to the post of a news story about a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant who died in May while...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President-elect warned Americans on Tuesday to steel themselves for the “darkest days” of the pandemic, which he said are still to come.“One thing I promise you about my leadership during this crisis: I’m going to tell it to you straight. I’m going to tell you the truth. And here’s the simple truth: Our darkest days in the battle against COVID are ahead of us, not behind us,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, ahead of the Christmas holiday.AdvertisementAcknowledging how difficult it is to spend the...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President-elect warned Americans on Tuesday to steel themselves for the “darkest days” of the pandemic, which he said are still to come.“One thing I promise you about my leadership during this crisis: I’m going to tell it to you straight. I’m going to tell you the truth. And here’s the simple truth: Our darkest days in the battle against COVID are ahead of us, not behind us,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, ahead of the Christmas holiday.AdvertisementAcknowledging how difficult it is to spend the...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost News. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The will end its counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month earlier than planned, the bureau’s director announced The bureau had expected to continue field data collection, which includes door-knocking, phone calls and online responses, until Oct. 31. The date had been pushed back from a July 31 deadline after the pandemic complicated field operations.AdvertisementTo help meet the earlier deadline, the bureau will include “enumerator awards and the hiring of more employees to accelerate the...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost News. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×The will end its counting efforts for the 2020 census on Sept. 30, a month earlier than planned, the bureau’s director announced The bureau had expected to continue field data collection, which includes door-knocking, phone calls and online responses, until Oct. 31. The date had been pushed back from a July 31 deadline after the pandemic complicated field operations.AdvertisementTo help meet the earlier deadline, the bureau will include “enumerator awards and the hiring of more employees to accelerate the...WW…

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×highlighted the hypocrisy of President ’s fearmongering about mail-in voting in a tweet on Friday.Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, assured voters on Twitter that “voting by mail is safe and secure.”Advertisement“And don’t take my word for it,” the former vice president continued. “Take it from the President, who just requested his mail-in ballot for the Florida primary on Tuesday.”Voting by mail is safe and secure. And don't take my word for it:Take it from the President, who just requested his...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×highlighted the hypocrisy of President ’s fearmongering about mail-in voting in a tweet on Friday.Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, assured voters on Twitter that “voting by mail is safe and secure.”Advertisement“And don’t take my word for it,” the former vice president continued. “Take it from the President, who just requested his mail-in ballot for the Florida primary on Tuesday.”Voting by mail is safe and secure. And don't take my word for it:Take it from the President, who just requested his...WW…