Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had vowed to be “100% focused” on stopping President Joe Biden’s agenda.
But when it comes to the pending $1 trillion 'bipartisan' infrastructure plan, McConnell is sounding like a go.
Last week, the Kentucky senator allowed debate to proceed on the measure, which would boost...
(Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3, as the Biden administration sought to quell intensifying criticism from progressives that it was allowing vulnerable renters to lose their homes during a pandemic.
The ban announced Tuesday could help keep...
(Headline USA) A federal judge Tuesday blocked Texas from allowing state troopers to stop vehicles carrying illegal immigrants on the grounds that they may spread COVID-19 as worries and new cases rise along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The temporary order by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone of El Paso is at least...
(Headline USA) Voters in Seattle’s mayoral primary on Tuesday set up a choice between candidates representing activist-left residents and slightly less strident progressives, in one of the nation’s most liberal cities.
Bruce Harrell, a former City Council member who has called for hiring more police officers to stem a rise in...
(Headline USA) The party for the nation's 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends.
Former president Barack Obama has scaled back his 60th birthday bash set for this weekend at his opulent Martha's Vineyard home off the Massachusetts coast after a public backlash on social media...
(Headline USA) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at leftist, marauding trespassers as they marched past the couple's home in a gated St. Louis neighborhood last year.
Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark...
(Associated Press) Mike Carey, a coal lobbyist backed by former President Donald Trump, beat a bevy of Republicans in central Ohio, while Cuyahoga County Council member Shontel Brown pulled out a victory for the Democratic establishment in Cleveland, in a pair of primary elections for open House seats Tuesday.
The special...
(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doubled down Tuesday as the state again allegedly broke its record for COVID-19 hospitalizations, insisting that the spike will soon abate and that he will not impose any business restrictions or mask mandates.
DeSantis said he expects hospitalizations to drop in the next couple weeks,...
(Associated Press) The number of children traveling alone who were picked up at the Mexican border by U.S. immigration authorities likely hit an all-time high in July, and the number of people who came in families likely reached its second-highest total on record, a U.S. official said Monday, citing preliminary...
(Associated Press) Ex-con and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich sued his home state Monday for booting him from the governor’s seat after his 2008 arrest for corruption and stripping him of his right to run for elective office in Illinois.
Before filing the lawsuit, an unapologetic Blagojevich addressed reporters outside the same...
(Associated Press) Top supporters of the recall against California Gov. Gavin Newsom want to block him from branding the contest as a Republican effort in the official election guide that will be sent to voters ahead of the Sept. 14 contest.
His contention that the effort is led by Republicans seeking...
(Headline USA) The U.S. on Monday finally reached President Joe Biden’s goal of getting at least one COVID-19 shot into 70% of American adults---a month late and amid a fierce surge by the delta variant that is leading to new mask rules and mandatory vaccinations around the country.
The White...