(Headline USA) The U.S. is doubling the fine for people who break the rule requiring masks on planes, trains and other forms of public transit that purports to slow the spread of COVID-19, with President Joe Biden warning Thursday that violators should “be prepared to pay.”
First-time offenders would face a...
(Headline USA) Twenty Democrat attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's new abortion law, arguing that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care.
“The effects of the law are not confined to limits on particular procedures...
(Headline USA) Six black farmworkers in Mississippi say in a new lawsuit that their former employer brought laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work.
Mississippi...
UPDATE 9/9/21 5:30 pm: President Joe Biden threatened that any company employing more than 100 workers may be forced to require vaccinations or tests.
However, many remained skeptical that his overreach would pass constitutional muster.
.@POTUS’ vaccination decree is an all-out assault on private business, our civil liberties, and our entire...
(Associated Press) The White House will withdraw the nomination of a gun-control advocate to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after David Chipman ran into bipartisan opposition in the Senate, a person familiar with the decision said Thursday.
Chipman is a former federal agent and adviser at the...
(Associated Press) The Biden administration on Wednesday removed 18 appointees named to U.S. military academy boards by Donald Trump in the final months of the Republican president's term in office, according to the White House.
Cathy Russell, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, sent letters to 18 people named...
(Headline USA) Nearly three weeks after armed conservative and leftist protesters violently clashed in the streets of a diverse neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, the city's mayor said Wednesday the lack of police intervention was “not the right strategy."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police Chief Chuck Lovell have been criticized...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has granted class-action status in a lawsuit filed six years ago that alleged the Chicago Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy targeted black and Hispanic people.
Attorneys involved in the lawsuit announced Tuesday that the case's six original plaintiffs are now part of a class of more...
(Headline USA) A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the pedestal where it has towered over Virginia’s capital city for more than a century.
One of America’s largest monuments to the Confederacy, the equestrian statue was...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump has chosen a favored candidate in his bid to unseat Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most vocal Republican critics.
Trump is planning to endorse Wyoming attorney Harriet Hageman, who is preparing to launch a primary campaign against Cheney, the most prominent member of Congress...
(Headline USA) During the 2016 Democratic National Convention, top party leaders and their wealthy patrons first hatched the plot to regain their Obama-era congressional losses by claiming Republicans had an unfair redistricting advantage.
Their "sue till blue" efforts helped shift the balance in several areas, including the Philadelphia region, Wisconsin...
(Headline USA) Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an elections overhaul into law Tuesday that strengthens ballot accountability in the booming state, after Democrats spent months protesting what they say --- without evidence --- are efforts to weaken minority turnout and preserve the GOP's dominance.
Abbott signed the sweeping changes during...