House Democrats have released their long-awaited proposal to ban stock trading by members of Congress, senior government officials, and U.S. Supreme Court justices, with the measure seeking to cut conflicts of interest, increase transparency around enforcement, and make penalties for noncompliance more painful.
A Georgia gubernatorial candidate and election denier Stacey Abrams used an event earlier this week to spread her denial of scientific reality, claiming that babies who have been in the womb for six weeks don’t have a heartbeat, and that the pulse millions of parents rejoice to hear on their childrens’ ultrasounds is actually “a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body.”