(Headline USA) A Nevada school board member said he had thoughts of suicide before stepping down amid threats and harassment.
In Virginia, a board member resigned over what she saw as politics driving decisions on masks.
The vitriol at board meetings in Wisconsin had one member fearing he would find his...
(Headline USA) At least 50,000 Afghans are expected to be admitted into the United States following the fall of Kabul as part of an “enduring commitment" to help people who aided the American war effort and others who are particularly vulnerable under Taliban rule, the secretary of homeland security said...
(Associated Press) The former student accused of murdering 17 people at a Florida high school cannot be called derogatory terms such as “animal” or “that thing” by prosecutors or their witnesses at his upcoming trial, but calling the killings “a massacre” is legitimate, the judge has ruled.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer...
(Headline USA) America’s employers added just 235,000 jobs in August, a surprisingly weak gain after two months of robust hiring and the clearest sign to date that the delta variant’s spread has discouraged some people from flying, shopping and eating out.
The August job growth the government reported Friday fell far...
(Headline USA) Apple said Friday it's delaying its plan to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, saying it needs more time to refine the system before releasing it.
The company had revealed last month that it was working on a tool to detect known images of child sexual...
(Headline USA) China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.
President Xi Jinping has called for a “national rejuvenation,” with tighter Communist Party control of business, education, culture and religion.
Companies...
(Headline USA) More than 30 California children are stuck in Afghanistan after they traveled to the country to see their relatives weeks before the Taliban seized power.
They were unable to get out before U.S. forces left, according to school districts where the kids are enrolled.
Officials with three school districts---one...
(Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Thursday that Congress should take a “strategic pause” on more spending.
He also warned that he does not support President Joe Biden's plans for a sweeping $3.5 trillion budget that drastically expands the definition of infrastructure and would push already painful inflation past...
(Headline USA) The last of the Confederate monuments prominently displayed along Richmond's eponymous Monument Avenue has been cleared for removal as radical leftists in Virginia who have long cringed at the historical relics conclude their decades-long cancel-culture crusade.
Ironically, it happened on the watch of a governor and attorney general...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Thursday pledged robust federal help to the Northeastern and Gulf states battered by Hurricane Ida and for western states beset by wildfires—with the catastrophes serving as deadly reminders that the “climate crisis” has arrived.
“These extreme storms, and the climate crisis, are here,” Biden said...
(Headline USA) House Democrats have promoted Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who has been largely rejected by her own party, to vice chairwoman of a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, placing her in a leadership spot on the panel as some Republicans are threatening to oust her from...
(Headline USA) The last time President Joe Biden promised large sums of money to Ukraine, it was conditional upon the firing of a prosecutor who was investigating corruption at Burisma, the company where his son Hunter drew a $1 million-a-year honorarium as a board member.
Yet, much has changed since...