‘ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING’
With the White House MIA, blue states with arcane abortion laws on the books are scrambling to block them. But in Arkansas, it's a question of which restrictive law would stand.
Scott Bixby is the White House reporter for The Daily Beast. You can follow him on Twitter at @ScottBix.
ODD MAN OUT
The president’s use of the phrase “abort a child” reflects career-long discomfort discussing abortion—and has advocates worried that he’s the wrong messenger.
‘EXISTENTIAL THREAT’
Vladimir Putin is starving for a win to boast of on Russia’s Victory Day holiday—and he may soon go to unprecedented lengths to get one.
‘NOT A PEEP’
He’s relying on a mysterious internal White House council’s progress, but their work has been conducted almost entirely in secret, and even his fiercest defenders are in the dark.
PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS
The Biden administration is trying to allow 100,000 Ukrainians to enter the United States as refugees—but they will all need a financial sponsor.
ANCHORS AWAY
Yachts don’t come cheap, even when you seize them—and that could mean the oligarchs’ favorite toys could end up with “for sale” signs.
BACK TO QUARANTINE
Her office said she has not been in close contact with President Joe Biden.
MIDTERM MASQUERADE
“It has everything to do with immigration politics and has nothing to deal with public health,” says Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law Center.
YOU DO YOU
“[W]e think it’s legal, and we want to make clear that it is—but the best way to do that might be to drop it," one administration official told The Daily Beast.
SAME BANS, DIFFERENT SONG
“Opponents of marriage equality are failing against this rising tide of LGBTQ acceptance, but they’re still desperate to try,” says Barbara Simon, a spokesperson for GLAAD.
