SYNDICATION

(Headline USA) Texas Republicans advanced new election integrity measures Thursday night after months of protests by Democrats, who after returning from a 38-day walkout are now all but out of ways to stop the bill. The nearly 50-page legislation passed the Texas House on a 79-37 mostly party-line vote, moving fast...

(Headline USA) The U.S. government said Thursday it is shutting down a federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein there two years ago. The federal Bureau of Prisons said the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan will...

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a ban that was put in place, rationalizing that it was necessary because of the coronavirus pandemic. The court said in an unsigned opinion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...

(Associated Press) Three families from a San Diego suburb have made it out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban's takeover, officials said Thursday. Five other families from El Cajon were still trying...

UPDATE (8/26 7 p.m.): According to the Gateway Pundit, at least 60 people are dead as the the result of Thursday's suicide bombings in Kabul. At least 150 are injured, many of them in critical condition, it reported, based on dispatches from the BBC and other news sources. The number was...

(Headline USA) Missouri is opening antibody treatment centers in several counties in the hopes that they’ll keep some high-risk patients with COVID-19 from dying or becoming critically ill. Monoclonal antibody infusion treatment will be available for 30 days at sites in Jackson, Pettis, Scott, Butler and Jefferson counties. Two more...

(Headline USA) The Republican Party of Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday asking the courts to remove Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe from the ballot for failing to sign an official form declaring his candidacy. The McAuliffe campaign dismissed the suit as “desperate" and “Trumpian.” McAuliffe won a June primary election for...

(Headline USA) U.S. Capitol Police officers who were attacked during the Capitol siege filed a lawsuit Thursday against former President Donald Trump, his allies and supportive group members, accusing them of intentionally sending a violent mob on Jan. 6 to disrupt the congressional certification of the election. The suit in federal...

(Headline USA) Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department refused to say Wednesday whether the government will allow the U.S. to reinstate the “remain in Mexico” policy of sending asylum seekers back across the border to wait for hearings on claims. The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block a lower court ruling ordering...

(Associated Press) FBI agents on Wednesday searched offices at Detroit City Hall and the homes of two City Council members, just a few weeks after another councilman was charged in an alleged bribery scheme. Agents and state police were seen at the homes of Janeé Ayers and Scott Benson. Agents also were...

(Headline USA) Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump face financial penalties and other sanctions after a judge Wednesday said they had abused the court system with a lawsuit that challenged Michigan's election results in favor of Joe Biden. There is voluminous evidence of vote fraud in the 2020 election...

(Headline USA) Military troops must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo Wednesday, ordering service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.” More than 800,000 service members have yet to get their shots, according to Pentagon data. And now that the BioNTech vaccine...