(Headline USA) Florida Republicans on Tuesday advanced a voting law package that would establish a police unit for election crimes, embracing a proposal pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections approved the bill after hours of debate. Democrats questioned the need for the election police...
(Headline USA) Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying the league remains “rife with racism” even as it publicly condemns it.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, said the hypocrisy was...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is committing to reduce the cancer death rate by 50% — a new goal for the “moonshot” initiative against the disease that was announced in 2016 when he was vice president.
Biden has set a 25-year timeline for achieving that goal, part of his broader...
(Headline USA) Facing expulsion from his own party, lame-duck Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called on Democrats and fellow NeverTrump RINOs to form an “uneasy alliance” in his crusade against former President Donald Trump.
Kinzinger, one of Trump's fiercest Republican critics in Congress, announced he would not seek re-election this...
(Headline USA) Oil cartel OPEC and allied countries are deciding how much oil to feed into the global economy as crude prices hover near seven-year highs---spiking gasoline costs---and fears of a Russian military move against Ukraine add to jitters over supply.
The likely outcome of Wednesday's online meeting, analysts say,...
(Headline USA) For the second time in under a week, police converged on New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral to pay tribute to a young officer gunned down while answering a call for help in Harlem.
Officer Wilbert Mora's funeral was held Wednesday morning at the same Roman Catholic cathedral...
(Headline USA) A bill that would have created the nation's only government-funded universal health care system died in the California Assembly on Monday as Democrats---who hold a strong majority---could not gather enough intra-party support to bring it for a vote ahead of a legislative deadline.
The bill had to pass...
(Headline USA) Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company, accusing it of improperly handling tests and providing fake results.
The lawsuit announced Monday and filed in King County Superior Court said the Center for COVID Control “failed to deliver prompt, valid...
(Headline USA) U.S. regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old while awaiting data on a three-dose course, aiming to clear the way for the shots as soon as late February,...
(Headline USA) The threat to the West from the Chinese government is “more brazen” and damaging than ever before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday night in accusing Beijing of stealing American ideas and innovation and launching massive hacking operations.
The speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library amounted to...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden shot down hopes of selecting a moderate to fill the vacancy left by retiring liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, hinting instead that he might attempt to push through a radical leftist by the narrowest of partisan margins.
Even after limiting the pool of qualified...
(Headline USA) Louisiana’s top GOP lawmaker weighed taking legislative action Monday against Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards for “gross misconduct and the highest level of deceit” in his response to the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.
House Speaker Rep. Clay Schexnayder’s comments followed an Associated Press report that...