POLITICS

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits. The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three different shots administered in...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Trump administration continues to enforce federal immigration law by revoking visas of foreign nationals who commit crimes and pose a national security threat. In roughly 20 months, the U.S. State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas of foreign nationals who “violated the terms...

(Arthur Kane and Jared Strong, The Center Square) In the past decade, government grants to nonprofits and the number of nonprofits that receive tax money has doubled, raising questions about whether public money is being wasted, an investigation by The Center Square found. In 2016, federal, state and local governments...

(Headline USA) Ben Jones, who played the good ol' boy mechanic in “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. He was 84. Jones had a heart attack in his home Sunday in Washington, Virginia,...

(Headline USA) U.S. health officials on Monday proposed a rule change that would require food manufacturers to notify regulators before introducing new ingredients or additives into processed or packaged foods. The proposal would change a decades-old policy that advocates have called a regulatory loophole, blaming it for allowing thousands of...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Dalton Eatherly, the online personality who goes by "Chud the Builder," has walked out of the Montgomery County Jail after roughly two months in custody, WSMV4 reported Monday morning. Eatherly achieved online infamy earlier this year for saying the "n-word" to black people while live-streaming---antics...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A new national initiative has launched to encourage Muslim Americans to vote ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The initiative comes after Christian, Jewish and nonpartisan nonprofit organizations have launched similar voter registration and get out the vote initiatives. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),...

(Headline USA) Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, said Sunday he has spoken with Barack Obama and hopes the former president campaigns with him as the party tries to unite after a bitter primary that exposed deep rifts between its progressive and moderate wings. El-Sayed said his...

(Headline USA) Michigan Democrats on Friday urged voters to rally behind their statewide candidates, three days after a bitter U.S. Senate contest highlighted divisions between the party’s progressive and moderate wings. A slate of nominees and other notable Democrats emphasized unity to a crowd of more than 1,000, who cheered loudest...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) After days of drawn-out negotiations, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a short-term government funding stopgap early Saturday morning. Both chambers of Congress now leave for the entire month of August. The House must approve the Senate’s continuing resolution when it returns before President Donald Trump...

(Headline USA) The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a vote early Saturday morning. The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. While Blanche has already been leading the department in an acting...

(Headline USA) The Federal Aviation Administration this week ordered inspections for hundreds of Boeing planes, following reports of cracks in some older models. The now-finalized rule, which was unveiled Thursday and kicks in Sept. 10, applies to certain aircraft under three Boeing 737 Max models: the 737-8, 737-9 and 737-8200....