Recently unsealed court documents detail the disturbing worldview of self-proclaimed “warrior for the babies” Robert L. Dear Jr., who killed three people and left nine wounded in a shooting at the Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs last fall. Dear told police he was “upset with them performing abortions and the…
While Chris Christie looked on in abject terror, Donald Trump made typically nonsensical claims during his victory speech last night. One of them was, “I’m going to be really good for women.”
In what some Planned Parenthood detractors will surely decry as a
miscarriage of justice, a grand jury charged with investigating whether the group sold fetal tissue has instead opted to indict the people who filmed the undercover videos that launched the investigation in the first place.
According to a CBS reporter on the scene, Robert Dear—the man accused of killing at least three people and wounding nine others during an attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood—would very much like the public to know he considers himself guilty.
The Senate has passed legislation that would basically gut the Affordable Care Act, reports the Associated Press. The bill has to pass the House of Representatives, but, like, come on—the House won’t even read the damn thing before sending it to President Obama.
On Monday, in a statement provided to The Colorado Independent, Colorado state representative JoAnn Windholz blamed Planned Parenthood for the deadly shooting that left three dead and nine injured at its Colorado Springs clinic last week.
Even within the context of this upended-Gathering-of-the-Juggalos-outhouse of a presidential election cycle, Ted Cruz’s crescendoing spingasm on the Planned Parenthood shooting is shocking and bizarre. This really could go anywhere.
Robert Lewis Dear, the man who shot and killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last Friday, was charged with rape over two decades ago.
Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, does not think the deadly attack Friday at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood qualifies as terrorism: “I don’t think it would fall under quite the definition of domestic terrorism, although I’ll leave that to the Justice Department to make that…
Ted Cruz, a gnarly gourd slowly depressing a fully inflated whoopee cushion, has an alternate theory about the Planned Parenthood shooter, reports the Texas Tribune.
After what was likely a heated debate around the editorial desk, The New York Times decided to rework a story that described Robert Lewis Dear, the man who killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, as “gentle.”
New details about Robert Lewis Dear, the 57-year-old man who attacked a Planned Parenthood on Friday, suggest that Dear may have been motivated by anti-abortion sentiments, and may also be mentally ill.
After the devastating shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Friday, commenters (welcome and not) have come out of the woodwork to give their hottest takes. A few, including a large slice of the candidates for the highest elected position a politician can hold in the U.S., have…
There have been over 300 reported shootings in the U.S. in 2015 so far—so many so that some witnesses have been present for more than one.
A “stocky, bearded white male wearing a trench coat” is currently in custody following an hours-long standoff and shootout at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic that left three dead, including one police officer.
A federal appeals court has ruled that Wisconsin’s law requiring that abortion providers have admitting privileges at a local hospital—effectively and deliberately shutting down clinics in the state—is unconstitutional, reports the Associated Press.
After canceling all Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates this past Monday, Texas authorities have now raided Planned Parenthood locations in San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas. Investigators are apparently looking for any documents or records related to patients who have donated fetal tissue at any…
Texas is canceling its Medicaid contracts with Planned Parenthood affiliates, The Houston Chronicle reported on Monday.
A Missouri investigation that began after a heavily edited, misleading video of a Planned Parenthood director discussing fetal tissue donation surfaced in July has finally reached its conclusion. And the verdict is: No, Planned Parenthood is not, in fact, selling or mishandling aborted fetal body parts in any way.
John Boehner, the orange in a necktie who had recently emerged as the relative voice of sanity in a budget battle that’s been stalled out by his Republican party’s far right wing, will leave Congress and resign as Speaker of the House in October. The New York Times broke the news, citing aides in Boehner’s office.
