SYNDICATION

UPDATE 4:15 p.m. Monday: President Joe Biden attempted to pass the blame around to his three presidential predecessors---particularly former President Donald Trump---while addressing the recent US military defeat in Afghanistan. Biden also sought to reframe the underlying issue over his strategic military failure by focusing on his justification for withdrawal---a...

(Headline USA) U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton told a crowd of about 4,000 Republicans that former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt plans to run for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. He and other Republican luminaries revved up a crowd gathered at a rural Nevada cattle ranch...

(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed a procedural vote this month that would set up future passage of two massive spending bills crucial to President Joe Biden's domestic agenda. Democratic leaders hope the plan will win must-have votes from unhappy party members. In a letter Sunday to Democratic lawmakers,...

(Headline USA) The Biden administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food stamp assistance available to one-in-eight Americans—the largest single increase in the program's history. Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps (officially known as the SNAP program) will rise more than 25 percent...

(Headline USA) The director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday the U.S. could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall. Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans. Dr. Francis...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of U.S. troops to ensure what Biden called an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel. But the move came just as the Taliban, after swiftly taking over...

(Headline USA) A rapidly growing number of places across the U.S. are requiring people to show proof they have been inoculated against COVID-19 to teach school, work at a hospital, see a concert or eat inside a restaurant. Meanwhile, Democrats are planning to deploy the National Guard in what many...

(Headline USA) The fight over mask and vaccine mandates moved to the center of California’s looming recall election Friday, with candidate Larry Elder promising to swiftly roll back sweeping government orders. Elder, in his first press conference since announcing his candidacy July 12, told reporters that if he replaces Democratic...

(Headline USA) Democrats filed a lawsuit Friday asking a federal court to throw out Wisconsin’s current congressional and legislative district boundaries, arguing the 10-year-old maps are unconstitutional and shouldn’t be used as the starting point for new districts set to be drawn in the coming months. The lawsuit came less...

A federal judge on Friday declined landlords' request to put the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium on hold, though she ruled that the freeze is illegal. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said her “hands are tied” by an appellate decision from the last time courts considered the evictions moratorium in...

(Headline USA) Two St. Louis sheriff's deputies who worked secondary jobs providing security for Democrat "Squad" member Rep. Cori Bush were fired for failing to get approval for their moonlighting, and not because of who they worked for, Sheriff Vernon Betts said Friday. Deputies Tylance Jackson and Maurice Thompson were...