(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) More police officers in the U.S. died in 2021 than any other year officer fatalities have been recorded, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 28, 2021, 358 active duty officers died. That's compared to 296 over the...
(Associated Press) A lawsuit by an American who claims Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17 might have to be thrown out because she no longer lives in the U.S., lawyers for the royal said in a court filing Tuesday.
Attorneys Andrew Brettler and Melissa Lerner wrote that...
(Headline USA) The attorney representing the private company that oversaw the Arizona Senate’s independent forensic audit of Maricopa County’s 2020 election results is trying to quit after a series of losses in cases brought by groups seeking records of the review.
The move to withdraw by attorney Jack Wilenchik is...
(Headline USA) China is calling on the United States to protect a Chinese space station and its three-member crew after Beijing complained that satellites launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX nearly struck the station.
A foreign ministry spokesman accused Washington on Tuesday of ignoring its treaty obligations to protect the safety...
(Headline USA) Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won't face criminal charges stemming from allegations from two women---including a state trooper---that he planted unwanted kisses on their cheeks, a suburban prosecutor said Tuesday.
It's the latest in a series of decisions about whether a raft of sexual assault and harassment...
(Headline USA) At the request of the Biden administration, the partisan House committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol has agreed to defer its fishing expedition to get hundreds of pages of records from the Trump administration.
The deferral is in response to concerns by the Biden...
(Headline USA) A federal judge refused to dismiss an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden's disputed electoral victory.
Just before Congress convened a joint session to certify the election results, a...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would endorse Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy for reelection, but only if the governor doesn't back U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's bid to return to the Senate.
Trump praised Dunleavy for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his “pushback against the Liberal...
(Headline USA) Harry Reid, the corrupt architect of the "nuclear option" for judicial appointments, whose dirty, Machiavellian, Las Vegas-style politics laid the stage for the current atmosphere of political acrimony in Washington, DC, departed for his final destination Tuesday after a four-year bout with pancreatic cancer.
Reid, 82, died “peacefully”...
(Headline USA) Early in the new year, the Vermont House of Representatives is due to begin debate on an amendment that would enshrine in the state constitution the right to kill unborn babies and send the question to voters in the fall.
Because the process began two years ago, it's...
(Headline USA) The U.S. flu season has arrived on schedule after taking a year off, with flu hospitalizations rising and two child deaths reported.
Last year's flu season was the lowest on record, likely because COVID-19 measures---school closures, distancing, masks and canceled travel---prevented the spread of influenza, or because the...
(Associated Press) U.S. health officials on Monday cut isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus from 10 to five days, and similarly shortened the time that close contacts need to quarantine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said the guidance is in keeping with growing evidence that...