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By Lauren Rearick On Tuesday, May 28, Senator Kamala Harris unveiled her plan to protect people’s reproductive rights and autonomy by way of what she’s calling the Reproductive Rights Act. The Senator, who is currently running to earn the nomination for the Democratic party’s 2020 presidential candidate, unveiled the plan during a MSNBC Town Hall . As CBS notes , her act would specifically target locations that “have a history of passing legislation that is designed to prevent or limit” someone’s access to reproductive healthcare, such as states with restrictive TRAP laws that aim to limit how much care physicians can offer their patients, and the ways in which they must administer that care. If the RRA were to become law, areas that passed anti-abortion measures within the last 25 years would be unable to pass or enact new anti-abortion laws without the prior approval of the Department of Justice; per BuzzFeed , this is directly counter to the way in which organizations are tasked ...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will impose a tariff on all goods arriving from Mexico in response to what he called a “mass incursion” of migrants entering the country “illegally”. Trump said the tariff would start at five percent on June 10 but then rise in stages every month to 25 percent on October 1 and remain at that level unless Mexico stops migrants from crossing the US’ southern border. “As everyone knows, the United States of America has been invaded by hundreds of thousands of people coming through Mexico and entering our country illegally. This sustained influx of illegal aliens has profound consequences on every aspect of our national life,” Trump said in a statement . “Mexico’s passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an emergency.” “If the illegal migration crisis is alleviated through effective actions taken by Mexico, to be determined in our sole discretion and judgment, the tariffs will be removed,” he added. On June 10th, ...

Updated May 31, 2019 13:27:51 Related Story: ‘You were not my priority’: Heart Foundation alters controversial ad amid backlash The Heart Foundation has pulled a controversial ad campaign that suggested people who do not look after their health do not love their families, following a social media backlash. Key points: The ad was criticised for victim-blaming and being insensitive The campaign suggested people with heart disease did not care about their families After being edited on Tuesday, the ad has now been fully removed The campaign, called Heartless Words, featured a scene in which a mother put her child to bed and said: “Every time I told you I loved you I was lying — you are not my priority”. The ad, which was launched on Tuesday, was later altered to remove that scene — but the rest of the video remained. It included lines such as a man telling a gathering “in time this family will be filled with loss. But I won’t care, because I’ll be gone.” “It’s no...

With Game of Thrones Season 8 in the rearview mirror, fans are looking forward to the day when creator George R.R. Martin finally continues the rest of his A Song of Ice and Fire book series. Previously, the writer had taken to his blog to discuss potential endings for the saga, where he addressed the million dollar question: “How will it all end?” According to actor Isaac Hempstead Wright, who portrayed Bran Stark, it looks like the books could end up being nearly the same as the show’s ending. Warning: This post contains major spoilers for the series finale of  Game of Thrones . Giphy As it turns out, it seems the books could end, well, nearly the same as the show did, with Bran on the Iron Throne (technically, since there is no more Iron Throne). “David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] told me there were two things George R.R. Martin had planned for Bran, and that was the Hodor revelation, and that he would be king,” he told HBO in an interview running down his reaction to B...