Matt Gagnon discusses the controversial decision of Michigan State Representative Lori Pohutsky who underwent sterilization to prevent pregnancy due to her opposition to Trump’s return to the White House. He argues that daily life remains largely unaffected by presidential changes and criticizes the idea of living in a dystopian society like “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Gagnon also mentions similar movements where people avoid dating or having children due to political concerns, expressing that such decisions are beneficial to those who choose not to have children.
Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Monday as powerful storms swept across the eastern half of the country and a partial government shutdown affecting airport security screeners dragged into a second month.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
