(Headline USA) Some Democrats think they may have found a 'silver bullet' in the ongoing impasse over the debt limit---except the bullet is made of platinum.
Left-wing radicals have proposed minting a $1 trillion coin and using it to flood the treasury with cash.
Notwithstanding the fact that such a move...
President Joe Biden bumbled his way through a trip to Michigan, at times getting jeered to the uncensored version of the now familiar "Let's go Brandon" salute," making a lewd gaffe involving Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and even appearing to forget entirely why he went there.
Although the purpose of...
(Headline USA) New York City's public libraries will no longer charge late fees and will waive existing fines for overdue books and other materials, city officials announced Tuesday.
Late fees had already been suspended since March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic and will now be permanently eliminated, elected officials...
(Headline USA) A judge was expected Tuesday to consider remaining motions in the case of Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse, who was accused of shooting three people during a race riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.
Rittenhouse---who was 17 at the time---maintains he acted in self-defense, but he faces multiple charges,...
(Headline USA) In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., warned that he had received notice of Afghan refugees escaping into the US mainland before having been formally vetted and resettled.
Cotton noted an "alarming" report last Friday from Reuters saying at least 700 evacuees...
(Headline USA) A day after a massive and mysterious shutdown of Facebook fueled speculation that the company might be hacked, a so-called whistleblower was raising new suspicious that the company might be colluding with Democrats to push new censorship powers.
Whistleblower.
Worldwide outage.
1.5 billion users' data sold to hackers.
Facebook is done.
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(Headline USA) The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, says he is stepping down by the end of the year, having led the research center for 12 years and become a prominent source of public information during the coronavirus pandemic.
“There comes a time where...
(Headline USA) Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., said Monday that activists who confronted her outside an Arizona State University classroom and filmed her inside a restroom were not engaging in “legitimate protest.”
The Democratic senator said that the immigration reform activists unlawfully entered the suburban Phoenix campus building, which was only...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Saturday acknowledged frustrations as Democrats strain to rescue a scaled-back version of his $3.5 trillion government-overhaul plan and salvage a related 'infrastructure' bill after frantic negotiations failed to produce a deal.
"Everybody’s frustrated, it’s part of being in government, being frustrated," Biden told reporters...
Public library employees in a conservative Wyoming city are facing possible prosecution after angry local residents complained to police that books featuring material about sex, LGBTQ issues and how to have a baby were obscene and didn't belong in sections for children and teenagers.
For weeks, Campbell County Public Library...
(Headline USA) A top U.S. official on Friday apologized for how Haitian migrants were treated along the U.S.--Mexico border, saying it’s not how border officials or the Department of Homeland Security behave.
The comments from Juan Gonzalez, the U.S. National Security Council’s senior director for the Western Hemisphere, came during...
(Headline USA) With a crisis of confidence in current leadership hindering vaccination efforts and many facing severe coronavirus lockdown fatigue after months of inconsistent guidelines, fatalities continued to rise steadily, turning the Wuhan-borne pandemic into America's deadliest on record.
The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone Friday, eclipsing...