(Headline USA) Current and former staffers have accused the top director of the World Health Organization in the Western Pacific of racist, unethical and abusive behavior that has undermined the U.N. health agency’s efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
The allegations were laid out in an internal complaint filed in...
(Headline USA) China is demanding the U.S. end “interference” in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which begin next week, in an apparent reference to a diplomatic boycott imposed by Washington and some of its allies.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the demand in a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration and NATO told Russia on Wednesday there will be no U.S. or NATO concessions on Moscow’s main demands to resolve the crisis over Ukraine.
Meanwhile, their tough talk did little to sway Russian President Vladimir Putin, who continued to amass his troops while testing the...
(Headline USA) China on Wednesday expressed “serious concerns and dissatisfaction” with the United States over reports of an internal State Department request to allow the departure of diplomats and their families from China amid tightening anti-pandemic measures.
Among the measures China previously used was anal testing, which caused a scandalous...
(Headline USA) A California city voted Tuesday night to require gun owners to carry liability insurance in what’s believed to be the first measure of its kind in the United States.
The San Jose City Council overwhelmingly approved the measure despite opposition from gun owners who said it would violate...
(Headline USA) The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a series of enforcement actions to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems afflicting minority communities in three Gulf Coast states, following a “Journey to Justice” tour by Administrator Michael Regan last fall.
Leftists have dubbed such woke initiatives "environmental...
(Headline USA) Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan can refuse to place children with same-sex couples under a proposed settlement filed in federal court Tuesday, months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for a Catholic charity in a similar case.
The state's scandal-plagued Department of Health...
(Headline USA) Alabama on Tuesday began appealing a federal court ruling that ordered the state to draw new congressional districts, including a second district with a substantial number of minority voters.
The Alabama attorney general's office filed a notice of appeal to the judges' order that blocked the current map...
(Headline USA) A Democrat political consultant in New Jersey has admitted paying two men to kill a longtime associate in 2014 who worked with him on various campaigns.
Sean Caddle, 44, of Hamburg, appeared in federal court by videoconference Tuesday and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder for hire.
Caddle...
(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi---who will turn 82 in March---announced Tuesday she will seek re-election, ending speculation that she would retire as Democrats face the threat of losing control of Congress in the 2022 midterms.
“While we have made progress, much more needs to be done to improve people’s...
(Headline USA) The COVID-19 booster drive in the U.S. is losing steam, worrying health experts who have hectored Americans to get an extra shot to shore up their protection against the highly contagious omicron variant.
Just 40% of fully vaccinated Americans have received a booster dose, according to the Centers...
(Headline USA) As the US economy faces its worst economic crisis since the Carter administration more than 40 years ago, President Joe Biden's open-borders policy has helped buoy the Mexican economy.
Mexico’s remittances---the money migrants send home to their relatives---have soared in the past two years, and they are now...