(Tyler Arnold, The Center Square) – Now that the public comment period has come to a close, the Va. Department of Education will soon finalize its guidance on a new law that allows parents to opt their children out of sexually explicit coursework.
Per the law, local school boards must...
(Anthony Hennen, The Center Square) – Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the largest cities in Pa. with COVID-19 vaccine mandates for city workers still in place, won’t see those disappear any time soon.
Worker vaccination rates are above 90%, respective city officials said in confirming the mandates will remain. Philadelphia’s compliance rate...
(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) – Attorneys general from 23 states have filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court urging judges to uphold a ruling from earlier this year that struck down the mask mandate for interstate travel.
Four months ago, Fla. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle...
(Headline USA) A third candidate for public office has come forward to say a sheriff on Florida's Space Coast offered help in getting a job in exchange for leaving a race and backing his favored candidate.
Kimberly Musselman, an assistant state attorney in Brevard County, told Florida Today she was asked by...
(Headline USA) A judge overseeing the second trial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took steps Friday to keep a lid on a defense lawyer's concerns about whether a juror will be fair.
The first trial resulted in the FBI's dubious case, which many...
(Headline USA) Johnson & Johnson is pulling baby powder containing talc worldwide next year after it did the same in the U.S. and Canada amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it caused cancer.
Talc will be replaced by cornstarch, the company said.
The company has faced litigation alleging its talcum powder caused...
(Headline USA) The fliers piled up in mailboxes in central South Dakota like snow during a high-plains blizzard: “Transgender Sex Education in Schools?” one asked. “Vote Against Sex Ed Radical Mary Duvall for State Senate.”
The mailers were part of a $58,000 campaign against the five-term Republican lawmaker, an enormous...
(Headline USA) Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed...
(Headline USA) The nation's top public health agency relaxed its COVID-19 guidelines Thursday, dropping the recommendation that Americans quarantine themselves if they come into close contact with an infected person.
The ruling came shortly after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to have been undermined by President Joe...
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(Headline USA) During a campaign stop in Mineral Wells, Texas, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke lashed out with an expletive at an audience member who laughed during a melodramatic description of the Uvalde elementary school massacre.
The video...
(Headline USA) An armed man decked out in body armor tried to breach a security screening area at an FBI field office in Ohio on Thursday, then fled and was injured in an exchange of gunfire in a standoff with law enforcement, authorities said.
Federal officials said the man “attempted to...
(Headline USA) Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp will unfurl his first major policy proposals of his reelection bid Thursday, pledging another state income tax rebate and revival of a long-dormant state property tax break while contending with Democrat challenger Stacey Abrams over who's best for the state's economy.
After Abrams,...