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    Sara Bondioli

    Sara Bondioli

    Editor, HuffPost

  • HuffPost Her Stories: The Shocking Cost Of Giving Birth In The U.S.

    Plus: This model is fighting for the Latinx and disability communities.

  • HuffPost Her Stories: This Country Is Debating How To Address Violence Against Women

    Plus: Photos celebrating women’s natural skin types.

  • This Country Is Debating How To Legally Address Violence Against Women

    The nation is split over whether the term “femicide” — the killing of women because they’re women — should be added to the penal code.

  • HuffPost Her Stories: The Forces That Make It Tough For Women To Share That They Have Autism

    Plus: Twitter blocks ads for a book about vaginas.

  • Read The Latest Updates On The Senate Health Care Vote

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving ahead with the issue.

  • See Rare Photos From JFK's Presidential Nomination 55 Years Ago Today

    John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention 55 years ago Monday. The then-senator was elected on the first ballot at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, after narrowly missing out on the vice presidential nomination four years earlier. He became the first Catholic president and the youngest U.S. president ever elected when he beat GOP candidate Richard Nixon in the general election that November.

  • Celebrating 4th Of July With A Long Weekend? Here's Why You're Able To.

    Congress declared the first federal holidays in the 1870s -- a handful of observances with Independence Day among them, according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report. Since then, the law has also been amended to specify that most employees get the Friday off work in cases when a holiday falls on a Saturday (such as the 4th of July this year). Congress and the president have never tried to establish holidays that apply to the states, the CRS report says.

  • Training For Family Caregivers Is A New Focus In Some States

    Iraq war veteran Doug Mercer had been home in McAlester, Oklahoma, for just four days when he was in a motorcycle accident that left him broken and brain-damaged. The Mercers’ story was a driving force behind an Oklahoma law that took effect in November that requires hospitals to train a designated family caregiver to tend to the medical needs of a released patient. Since then, 12 more states (Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Virginia and West Virginia) have approved similar laws.

  • States Try To Remove Barriers For Ex-Offenders

    Raymond Daughton has been out of prison for 36 days. Daughton, 31, doesn’t want to get into trouble again, so he is staying out of his old neighborhood—one of the roughest parts of Baltimore—and distancing himself from some friends. An estimated 70 million people are trying to navigate the world with a criminal record, according to the National Employment Law Project.

  • Politwoops' Demise Means Less Transparency In Politics

    Politwoops, the Sunlight Foundation project that curated deleted tweets from politicians, has been stopped in its tracks. In a post on its site Thursday, titled "Eulogy for Politwoops," Sunlight Foundation President Christopher Gates explained that Twitter suddenly revoked the group's access to its API, or application programming interface, which was used to tap into the database of tweets. The most recent deleted tweet on the Politwoops site is dated May 15.

  • Here's Why You're Able To Enjoy That Memorial Day Barbecue Instead Of Working

    If you're not in the office on Memorial Day, thank your company. Congress declared the first federal holidays in the 1870s -- a handful of observances, though Memorial Day wasn't one of them, according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report. Congress and the president have never tried to establish holidays that apply to the states, the CRS report says.

  • 2016 Candidates Need More Than Spanish To Win The Latino Vote

    Sharing your message in Spanish might help build Latino support for your presidential bid -- but it's no guarantee. As the number of eligible Latino voters grows, candidates are paying more attention to the group, and many 2016 contenders have been promoting themselves in Spanish on the campaign trail. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has been exercising his Spanish since entering the 2016 race in April.

  • Here Are Some Of The Best Photos From Obama's Trips To The 50 States

    Now that President Barack Obama has visited South Dakota, he's hit all 50 states during his time in office. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush checked out all the states during their administrations, too, though George H.W. Bush made it to just 49, missing out on Vermont, according to The Washington Post. Here are some of our favorite photos from Obama's state visits.

  • Baltimore Riots Change Conversation In Senate Race

    The nascent Maryland Senate race will likely take on a new focus, as the state's largest city works to heal its wounds following the death of a young black man in police custody and the sometimes violent expressions of anger that followed.

  • Cecily Strong Jabs Obama On Charlie Hebdo, Mom Jeans At White House Correspondents' Dinner

    Comedian Cecily Strong didn't hold back in criticizing President Barack Obama on a range of policy and personal issues during remarks at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. At one point, Strong showed a fake photo of herself with former Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill. in Paris, telling Obama, "You should go there sometime."

  • Obama Turns Tables On Michele Bachmann Rapture Dig At White House Correspondents' Dinner

    President Barack Obama turned a dig from former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn. into a glowing review of his presidency at the 2015 White House Correspondents' Dinner. "Just this week, Michele Bachmann actually predicted that I would bring about the biblical end of days," Obama said in his speech Saturday night.

  • Obamacare Contractor Paid 13,000 Hours Of Overtime

    The contractor who runs the Affordable Care Act application processing facility in Wentzville paid more than 13,000 hours of overtime to catch up with a backlog created by computer problems after the initial sign-up period, according to documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

  • Michelle Obama Plants Vegetables With A Bunch Of Cute Kids In The White House Garden

    Kids from around the country who participate in Let's Move programs joined first lady Michelle Obama to help plant the White House Kitchen Garden on Wednesday. Obama challenged community gardens across the nation to join them in planting the five vegetables they added: broccoli, spinach, bok choy, radishes and lettuce. The first lady also announced the launch of an interactive online map where Americans can find and get involved with Let's Move programs in their communities.

  • Marco Rubio's Announcement Speech Had A Goof

    Marco Rubio's presidential campaign announcement speech included inspirational parts of his life story, the outline of a governing agenda and one flat-out error that appears to be a clumsy Prince reference.

  • Carly Fiorina: Hillary Clinton Is 'An Inspiration' But 'Lacks Accomplishment'

    Hillary Clinton has been "an inspiration for many women," but the tenure of the former secretary of state "lacks accomplishment," GOP 2016 presidential prospect Carly Fiorina said Monday. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO spoke about Clinton, who formally entered the 2016 race Sunday, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Of course Hillary Clinton has opened doors for women and of course she is a highly intelligent, hardworking woman who has dedicated her life to public service and that is a tribute to her," Fiorina told Mika Brzezinski.