That’s Not How Constitutional Amendments Work

Presidents typically spend their final days in the White House taking care of odds and ends: issuing pardons, signing some last executive orders, thanking staff. Joe Biden is doing all of those things—and also trying to change the Constitution on his way out the door. This morning, Biden declared on X that “the Equal Rights Amendment is now the law of the land.” Well, there you have it: The Constitution has a 28th amendment, and women’s rights have been enshrined across the country. Or not. Biden can’t change the Constitution,…

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‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’

Photographs by Bethany Mollenkof This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Kylie Cooper has seen all the ways a pregnancy can go terrifyingly, perilously wrong. She is an obstetrician who manages high-risk patients, also known as a maternal-fetal-medicine specialist, or MFM. The awkward hyphenation highlights the duality of the role. Cooper must care for two patients at once: mother and fetus, mom and baby. On good days, she helps women with complicated pregnancies bring home healthy babies. On bad days,…

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New cloud category sinks FITARA scores, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

Federal agency scores plummeted on the 17th Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard. The reason for the drop in grades: Continued struggles to implement best practices for moving workloads and services to the cloud. But oversight leaders say the decrease in grades is not only expected, but not indicative of the progress agencies have made over the last decade. The scorecard, released today by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), co-author of FITARA, showed double the amount of “C” grades with 10 “Cs” and three “Ds” for the first time since…

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Pakistan’s prime minister visits Trump, but that’s not likely to help his country’s struggling economy – CNBC

Pakistan’s prime minister visits Trump, but that’s not likely to help his country’s struggling economy  CNBC Trump says he could wipe Afghanistan off face of the earth in 10 days  Vox.com Trump says he could win Afghan war ‘in a week … but I don’t want to kill 10m’  The Guardian India Calls Out Trump Lie That He Was Asked To Mediate Kashmir Conflict  HuffPost Trump’s Kashmir Blooper LIVE: Modi Betrayed India’s Interests, Must Tell Nation What Transpired, Says Rahul  News18 View full coverage on Google News “us president” – Google News

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