Your reactions to the congresswoman's moving speech.

His brush with

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Kim Mangone is running against Incumbent Kevin McCarthy for election to the U.S. House to represent California's 23rd Congressional District.

Monday, the Board of Supervisors voted to place on the November ballot Haney’s charter amendment establishing for the first time in the City's history a Department of Sanitation and Streets.

The New York City Democrat took to the House floor to accuse Republican Ted Yoho of accosting her on the steps of the US Capitol on Monday. Ms Ocasio-Cortez, who is often a target of conservatives, said the words showed a "pattern" of bad behaviour by men.

Rep. Ted Yoho has refused to properly apologize for accosting his colleague, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, outside the Capitol building this week, calling her a “f*cking bitch” as he was walking away. Instead, the Florida Republican offered a string of bizarre explanations that, at best, resembled a half-assed sort-of-apology. Yoho also offered something of a denial, though it wasn’t clear exactly what he was denying. 

That deliberate attempt to avoid accountability may have satisfied senior Republicans, but Ocasio-Cortez isn’t letting him get away with it.

Will you take the vaccine - and who should get it first?

Megan McArdle is a Washington Post columnist and the author of "The Up Side of   Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success."

No one is more important to the history of environmental conservation than John Muir — the “wilderness prophet,” “patron saint of the American wilderness” and “father of the national parks” who founded the nation’s oldest conservation organization, the Sierra Club. But on Wednesday, citing the current racial reckoning, the group announced it will end its blind reverence to a figure who was also racist.

Washington Post reporter Marissa Lang updates us on the situation in Portland.