(Ted O'Neil, The Center Square) Seattle-based Starbucks announced this week that is dropping its policy requiring employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The coffee giant’s move comes in response to last week’s United State Supreme Court ruling to block the Biden Administration from requiring businesses in the private sector to...
(Headline USA) Political parties “have no right to be gatekeepers to the ballot,” an attorney argued Tuesday in urging the Alaska Supreme Court to uphold a voter-approved electoral system that would end party primaries in the state and institute ranked-choice voting in general elections.
Scott Kendall, who helped write the...
(Headline USA) Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive of global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc., was awarded on Wednesday the prestigious Genesis Prize for his efforts in leading the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
It comes even as the efficacy and safety of the vaccines is being called into question and...
(Headline USA) Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out March 8 titled One Damn Thing After Another, and billed by his publisher as a “vivid and forthright book” of his time serving two “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush.
Barr, now 71, served...
(Headline USA) Money is pouring fast into the Texas governor's race headlined by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who both reported massive early fundraising hauls Monday that puts the campaign on an accelerated track to become one of the nation's most expensive in 2022.
Dark-money Democrats have...
(Headline USA) The al-Qaeda-loving British national who took four Jewish people hostage at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended in his death was checked against law enforcement databases before entering the U.S. but raised no red flags, the White House said.
Malik Faisal Akram, 44, arrived in...
(Headline USA) Airlines across the world, including the long-haul carrier Emirates, rushed Wednesday to cancel or change flights heading into the U.S. over an ongoing dispute about the rollout of 5G mobile phone technology near American airports.
The issue appeared to particularly impact the Boeing 777, a long-range, wide-body aircraft...
(Headline USA) The Senate prepared to launch debate Tuesday on a radical voting overhaul with attention focused intently on two pivotal Democrats---Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia---who were singled out with a barrage of criticism from their own party on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Leftist have...
(Headline USA) The Connecticut opera singer who drew fire from law enforcement when she sped through a checkpoint outside then-President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida two years ago was found not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday.
Florida prosecutors and Circuit Judge Scott Suskauer accepted Hannah Roemhild's plea during...
(Headline USA) In a sleepy Wyoming town that has relied on coal for over a century, a company founded by the man who revolutionized personal computing is launching an ambitious project to counter climate change: A nationwide reboot of nuclear energy technology.
Until recently, Kemmerer was little-known for anything except...
(Headline USA) COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too, leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members vaccinated and boosted.
Under the heinous COVID policies of leftist governors that...
(Headline USA) Hong Kong authorities said Tuesday that they will kill about 2,000 small animals, including hamsters, after several tested positive for the coronavirus at a pet store where an employee was also infected.
The city will also stop the sale of hamsters and the import of small mammals, according...