(Headline USA) A blistering report on the Southern Baptist Convention’s mishandling of sex abuse allegations is raising the prospect that the denomination, for the first time, will create a publicly accessible database of pastors and other church personnel known to be abusers.
The creation of an “Offender Information System” was...
(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to spend $280 million of the state’s projected $3 billion surplus on learning loss recovery.
The spending aims to recover learning loss for 1.4 million kids after Whitmer shuttered schools statewide in 2020, which pivoted to remote learning.
But even in 2022, Flint...
(Headline USA) In another blow to public confidence in government health agencies and alleged experts, health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world.
The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn't known to cause...
(Headline USA) Much as it did with the "wet market" narrative during the Wuhan Institute of Virology's coronavirus lab leak in 2019, the World Health Organization sought to get in front of the narrative by claiming European raves were to blame for the spread of monkeypox, with the implication...
(The Center Square) Electricity prices will rise 3.9% this summer compared to the summer of 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates, another bill ticking higher for Americans as they grapple with record high gas prices and inflation.
Rising energy costs have garnered national attention as gas prices hit record...
(Headline USA) Oklahoma lawmakers on Thursday approved a bill prohibiting all abortions with few exceptions, and providers said they would stop performing the procedure as soon as the governor signs it in the latest example of the GOP’s national push to save the lives of unborn babies.
Oklahoma lawmakers this...
(Headline USA) Thousands of ballots with blurry barcodes that can’t be read by vote-counting machines will delay results by weeks in a key U.S. House race in Oregon’s primary election, a shocking development that is giving a black eye to a vote-by-mail pioneer state with a national reputation as...
(Headline USA) The Senate has whisked a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval, putting a bipartisan stamp on America’s biggest commitment yet to turning Russia's invasion into a painful quagmire for Moscow.
The legislation, approved 86-11 Thursday was...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democrat Party.
Only 39% of U.S. adults approve of Biden’s performance as president, according to the poll from The Associated...
(Headline USA) U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is facing criticism from the leader of Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party after saying Congress won’t approve a trade deal with the U.K. if Britain scraps the agreement governing post-Brexit trade on the Irish island.
The trans-Atlantic sparring follows British Prime Minister...
(Headline USA) In its ongoing witch hunt in partisan pursuit of a narrative that fits leftist accusations of what happened on J6, the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol uprising is asking a House Republican for more information about a tour of the building the panel says he led...
(Headline USA) Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday that he will run for Congress in a redrawn district that includes his Brooklyn home.
De Blasio, whose second mayoral term ended last year, announced on MSNBC's Morning Joe that he will seek the Democratic nomination for the...