Why it matters: The Respect for Marriage Act, which the House passed last week, comes amid heightened concerns about the right to gay marriage following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Federal lawmakers have introduced legislation that would ban the social media app TikTok from operating in the United States.
Why it matters: The new bipartisan bill comes after both the Biden administration and former President Trump shared concerns over the app and its security risks.
A on-going three-alarm fire burned parts of evidence storage warehouse operated by the New York Police Department (NYPD) at one of its impounds on Tuesday, according to Police Chief Jeffrey Maddrey.
Why it matters: The warehouse in Erie Basin Auto Pound in Red Hook, Brooklyn, houses vehicles and evidence — including DNA material — seized through police investigations, though the exact extent of the damage was not known Tuesday afternoon.
The city of Louisville will pay $2 million to settle two lawsuits filed by the boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, his lawyers said Monday, AP reports.
Driving the news: "He will live with the effects of being put in harm’s way due to a falsified warrant, to being a victim of a hailstorm of gunfire and to suffering the unimaginable and horrific death of Breonna Taylor," one of Kenneth Walker's attorneys, Steve Romines, said in a statement.
There is more good news for an American consumer bedeviled by soaring prices, and policymakers racing to tame them: inflation slowed even further in November, the latest clue that the worst of it may be behind us.
The big picture: Similar optimism this summer was quickly crushed by subsequently higher inflation readings. But there are good reasons to believe this time really is different, with key inflation drivers — housing, goods and services — all pointing in a favorable direction.
Anti-transgender campaigns resulted in the online harassment of 24 different hospitals and health care providers in 21 states over a recent four-month period, according to a report from Human Rights Campaign shared first with Axios.
The big picture: Despite being uniformly recommended by major medical organizations including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, gender-affirming care has been under fire from a variety of directions, including via legislative attacks and online threats.
Following a cooler-than-expected inflation reading in October, consumer price gains slowed even further last month: the Consumer Price Index rose 7.1% in the year ending in November, down from 7.7% the prior month, the Labor Department said on Tuesday.
Why it matters: Inflation is still way too high, but the data offers some hope that it can ease alongside a still-healthy economy.
The Biden administration announced Monday a new interagency group charged with developing a national strategy to combat antisemitism amid a rising tide of vitriolic rhetoric spewed by high-profile public figures.
