(Associated Press) Six people who recently traveled to the United States after fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan have been diagnosed with measles, officials said Tuesday.
The cases in Virginia and Wisconsin are being reported four days after the U.S. halted in-bound flights of Afghan evacuees following the discovery of a few...
(Associated Press) The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Texas to stop the enforcement of a new state law that bans most abortions in the state while it decides the case.
The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity — usually around six...
(Headline USA) California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday emphatically defeated a recall aimed at kicking him out of office early, a contest the Democrat framed as part of a national battle for his party’s values in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and continued threats from “Trumpism.”
Newsom bolted to a...
(Headline USA) The Buffalo Bills joined the Las Vegas Raiders on Tuesday as the only NFL teams to require proof of vaccination against COVID-19 for all fans over the age of 12.
The rules will be the same for Buffalo Sabres games at the KeyBank Center when the NHL season...
(Headline USA) Facebook briefly took down Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's campaign page Tuesday morning, indicating it had been mistakenly flagged as an imposter account, though the governor suggested the move was prompted by her criticism of President Joe Biden's vaccination mandate.
Ivey, a Republican, cited her staunch opposition to the...
(Headline USA) Speculation on both the Right and Left are swirling about whether Saturday's Justice for J6 rally in Washington, DC, will be a repeat of the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol, a false flag or a tempest in a teapot.
The rally---being held in solidarity with those...
(Headline USA) As President Joe Biden attempts to use the last vestiges of his political capital to impose authoritarian vaccine mandates and bully red-state governors who demand state and parental sovereignty, it has further entrenched the skepticism of many already hesitant parents.
That has created tension within some families, while...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden put Democrats’ approach to the coronavirus pandemic on the line Monday, casting the California recall that could remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office as an opportunity for voters to show the nation that “leadership matters, science matters.”
“The eyes of the nation are on California because...
(Headline USA) Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday attempted to evade harsh Republican criticism of the handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the Biden administration inherited a deal with the Taliban to end the war, but no plan for carrying it out.
It was one of several...
(Headline USA) Echoing earlier bans that prevented media from observing the conditions at detention centers for illegal immigrants, as well as the conditions of Jan. 6 political dissidents, the Biden administration allowed a carefully curated glimpse at the military base housing recent Afghani evacuees.
But it refused to allow media...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Monday ordered the state of Iowa to immediately halt enforcement of a law that prevents school boards from ordering masks to be worn.
Judge Robert Pratt, a Bill Clinton appointee, claimed in an order signed Monday that the law passed in May substantially increases...
(Associated Press) House Democrats unveiled a sweeping proposal Monday for tax hikes on big corporations and the wealthy to fund President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion rebuilding plan, as Congress speeds ahead to shape the far-reaching package that touches almost all aspects of domestic life.
The proposed top tax rate would revert...