President Joe Biden signed an executive order last week temporarily suspending oil and gas drilling on federal lands, but after backlash from American Indian tribes, he decided to grant exemptions to fossil-fuel-producing reservations.
Biden’s order strips the Interior Department of its authority to issue drilling leases and permits, which appears...
(Headline USA) The San Francisco school board has voted to remove the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from public schools after officials deemed them and other prominent figures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, unworthy of the honor.
After months of controversy, the board voted 6-1 Tuesday in favor of renaming...
After falling short on a vote to join the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, former Phillies/Diamondbacks/Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling told the Baseball Writers' Association of America to remove him from next year's ballot so he can be judged by "men whose opinions actually matter," ESPN reported.
Schilling indicated...
Several of the companies known for their hit Super Bowl commercials have decided to sit this year's game out over concerns about political polarization.
Budweiser, Pepsi Co., Coca-Cola, and other major corporations have backed out of advertising during this year’s broadcast and have decided to give money to coronavirus relief...
(Headline USA) Democrat Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military.
The new order, which Biden signed in the Oval Office during a meeting with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, overturns a ban ordered by President Donald Trump...
(Headline USA) Paul Chavez had no idea where a sculpture of his father, Latino American communist Cesar Chavez, would end up in the White House.
He agreed just this week to lend the bronze bust to Democrat Joe Biden and hustled to get it wrapped up and shipped across the...
(Headline USA) Twitter said on Friday that it had permanently banned an account connected to the office of Iran’s supreme leader, shortly after the account posted a photo showing former President Donald Trump playing golf in the shadow of a giant drone.
In response to a request for comment from the...
Conservative-leaning tech magnate Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor, was among the latest to join the growing list of powerful people moving to Florida with the purchase of a $19 million Miami mansion announced this week.
For the past quarter-century, conservatives have been flocking to...
President Biden’s administration updated the White House’s online contact form to give users the option to list their preferred pronouns.
The new contact form gives users several gender identity options: “she/her,” “he/him,” “they/them,” “other” or “prefer not to share.”
The website also now offers expanded options for honorific prefixes, including “Mx.,”...
A Florida legislator on Tuesday announced his plan to promote a measure renaming a stretch of highway traversing the entire state in honor of former president Donald Trump.
This legislative session I will be sponsoring an amendment to rename U.S. Highway 27 as the “President Donald J. Trump Highway.” Looking...
The Atlanta Dream, a WNBA franchise, will be sold soon, and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who co-owns the team, will no longer be associated with it, ESPN reported.
"As it relates to the Atlanta Dream, we understand a sale of the franchise is close to being finalized," the WNBA...
On day one of his presidency, Joe Biden plans to reinstate Obama-era Title IX regulations that allow transgender students to choose the bathroom or locker room of their preference.
The Trump administration revoked the guidance in 2017, arguing that Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex, not gender identity, and...