About a dozen Democratic senators are asking Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to revive Violence Against Women Act programs in a sweeping legislative package focused on the social safety net. In the letter obtained exclusively by NBC News, the senators said they want the measure to include funding for[Read More…]

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday called for private businesses to incentivize getting vaccinated against the coronavirus by instituting “vaccine-only admission.” The Delta variant of COVID-19 is reportedly driving up the virus cases around the country, but deaths and hospitalizations are overwhelmingly occurring in unvaccinated people. New York[Read More…]

“You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others if you are providing misinformation out there,” White Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week. In context, what Psaki meant wasn’t that someone should be banned from all social media if one platform makes the decision to do so, but[Read More…]

The California-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week ruled against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus mandates that barred private school children from receiving in-person teaching. In a suit brought forward in July 2020 by the Center for American Liberty, 20 plaintiffs challenged an order by Newsom that[Read More…]

Last week New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio discussed the possible implementation of vaccine passports. The mayor, who had previously said vaccine passports could be an important tool if balanced with privacy concerns, encouraged businesses “to move immediately to some form of mandate,” adding that he would “seriously consider”[Read More…]