
It's shameful that paid leave is stuck in limbo
CNN
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, of MomsRising.org, writes that President Biden's current Build Back Better budget reconciliation budget includes tremendous gains for families across the country, but is missing one key thing: The high-polling and urgently-needed policy of paid family/medical leave. The measure would "make possible for people to recover from from childbirth to bond with a new child, or to take care of themselves or a close loved one if a serious health crisis strikes." But she says "the fight is still on" and is calling for Congress to take action and pass it immediately.

It was after midnight in Malaysia when Secretary of State Marco Rubio dialed into a call between President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The topic was Ukraine and Rubio, on his first trip to Asia as Trump’s top diplomat, had just met face-to-face with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.