(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...
(Headline USA) The CEO of Salesforce said the company will help employees leave Texas, and he did so while retweeting a story linking the offer to concern about Texas' new pro-life law.
Salesforce, which sells customer-management software, joins a small number of companies that have reacted against the Texas law.
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(Associated Press) Authorities in Britain have decided not to require vaccine passports for entry into nightclubs and other crowded events in England, Britain's health secretary said Sunday, reversing course amid opposition from some of the Conservative government's supporters in Parliament.
Health Minister Sajid Javid said the government has shelved the...
(Headline USA) The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installed its first transgender bishop in a service held in San Francisco's Grace Cathedral on Saturday.
The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada.
"My call is ... to be...
(Headline USA) A Democratic senator vital to the fate of President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion spending plan said Sunday he won't support even half that amount or the ambitious timetable envisioned for passing it.
The stand by Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was described as unacceptable by the chairman of the...
(Headline USA) Only weeks after being hammered by Gold Star families for checking his watch during a dignified transfer ceremony, all eyes will be on whether President Joe Biden can get through one of America's most solemn occasions without an embarrassing gaffe.
Although he is not expected to deliver formal...
(Headline USA) Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and civil liberties. Today, after 20 years, not as much.
That’s according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that builds on work conducted in 2011, one...
(Headline USA) While the threat of spreading a dangerous and highly contagious disease has hardly given the Biden administration pause in allowing a flood of immigrants from the southern border, it did give Democrats cover to further drag their feet on rescuing stranded Afghan refugees.
The U.S. has halted all...
(Headline USA) Evacuation flights have resumed for Westerners, but thousands of at-risk Afghans who had helped the United States are still stranded in their homeland with the U.S. Embassy shuttered, all American diplomats and troops gone and the Taliban now in charge.
With the United States and Taliban both insisting...
(Headline USA) North Carolina's Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed an anti-indoctrination bill on Friday that would have limited how public school teachers can discuss certain racial concepts like Critical Race Theory.
Cooper separately blocked a bill to raise penalties on those who engage in violent protests.
The vetoed education bill was...
(Headline USA) Arizona has sold off $93 million in Unilever bonds and plans to sell the remaining $50 million it has invested in the global consumer products company over subsidiary Ben & Jerry's decision to stop selling its ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories, the latest in a series of...