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(Headline USA) In an escalating battle with Republican governors, President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered his Education secretary to explore possible legal action against states that have blocked school mask mandates and other public health measures meant to protect students against COVID-19. In response, the Education Department raised the possibility of...

(Headline USA) Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday upped the pressure on the growing number of public school districts defying a state ban on mask mandates as they try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Republican created a $163 million school grant program using federal virus relief funds he...

(Headline USA) The Taliban have agreed to allow “safe passage” from Afghanistan for civilians struggling to join a U.S.-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden's national security adviser said Tuesday, although a timetable for completing the evacuation of Americans, Afghan allies and others has yet to be worked out...

(Headline USA) Georgia's Republican-controlled State Election Board plans to take a step Wednesday toward a possible eventual takeover of elections in the state's most populous county. Fulton County, a Democrat bastion that includes most of the city of Atlanta, has long been tainted with vast evidence of vote fraud, including in...

(Headline USA) Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, despite being fully vaccinated, his office said. "Governor Abbott is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms," spokesman Mark Miner said a statement. The positive tests comes a day after Abbott tweeted a...

(Headline USA) The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring woke "1619 Project" author Nikole Hannah--Jones to her faculty, announced Tuesday she is stepping down, not long after resistance from the school's trustees sent the...

(Headline USA) An order by the Tennessee governor letting parents opt their children out of following mask rules at school has drawn defiance from officials in Memphis and Nashville, including a pledge Tuesday from Nashville's district attorney not to prosecute teachers and school officials for flouting the carveout during...

(Headline USA) House Democrats on Tuesday put forward a new proposal to update the antiquated Voting Rights Act after seeing it stripped by a 2013 Supreme Court decision and failing in another recent effort to seize federal control of state elections. However, amid the fallout from their failed power grab,...

(Headline USA) Top Democrats plan House votes next week on a controversial budget resolution that could clear a path for future passage of a massive $3.5 trillion spending spree, shrugging off the pleas from vulnerable party centrists who first wish to pass the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill. Party radicals wish...

(Associated Press) Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely — in some cases without a shot fired — that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not only political power but...

(Headline USA) Chris Cuomo told CNN viewers Monday that he wasn't an adviser to outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, “I'm a brother." Then he detailed the advice he gave him — including to resign. Both the network and its “CNN Prime Time” host have faced criticism for his interactions with his...

(Associated Press) California Gov. Gavin Newsom is using increasingly stark language as he campaigns in the final month of a tight recall election, calling it “a matter of life or death" that voters keep him in office and he is increasingly targeting a single Republican candidate: talk show host Larry...