×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.×Advertisement” ”Advertisementdidn’t say much of anything as , one by one, raised concerns with Wilson’s record and said they would be voting no.“His record is an antithesis to what the American people are marching for and demanding right now.”- Sen. Kamala HarrisAdvertisementLike so many of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees, Wilson is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that has effectively been picking Trump’s judicial nominees for him. There is to these court picks,...…×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×Advertisement” ”Advertisementdidn’t say much of anything as , one by one, raised concerns with Wilson’s record and said they would be voting no.“His record is an antithesis to what the American people are marching for and demanding right now.”- Sen. Kamala HarrisAdvertisementLike so many of President Donald Trump’s appeals court nominees, Wilson is a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that has effectively been picking Trump’s judicial nominees for him. There is to these court picks,...WW…

US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Considering is not known for it’s probably not a surprise that he can be bad at reading a room.That’s what happened Wednesday when a reporter asked him for his reaction to the decision by a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky,who fatally shot  in her death.There are many things a president could have said, such as a statement calling for peace while the process continues or an expression of...…US EditionU.S.CLOSEFollow usPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2020 Verizon Media. All rights reserved.BREAKING NEWSTap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you.Considering is not known for it’s probably not a surprise that he can be bad at reading a room.That’s what happened Wednesday when a reporter asked him for his reaction to the decision by a grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky,who fatally shot  in her death.There are many things a president could have said, such as a statement calling for peace while the process continues or an expression of...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…