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(Headline USA) Hoping to set a model for employers nationwide, President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that millions of federal workers must show proof they’ve received a coronavirus vaccine or submit to regular testing and stringent social distancing, masking and travel restrictions. An individual familiar with the president's plans, who spoke...

(Headline USA) One of the Republican Party’s most prominent rising stars is mocking new government recommendations calling for more widespread use of masks to blunt an alleged coronavirus surge. “Did you not get the CDC’s memo?” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis joked Wednesday before an audience of activists and lawmakers in a hotel...

(Headline USA) After partisan officials with the Biden administration OKed both public and private institutions to impose mandatory vaccinations, Google joined the growing list of virtue-signaling groups to declare it would do so. Google's announcement Wednesday came as a new panic strikes over "mutant" strains like the delta variant, which---along...

(Associated Press) The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims’ families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public. Lawyers for now-bankrupt Remington filed the offers late Tuesday in Waterbury Superior...

(Headline USA) A Texas National Guard deployment along the U.S.-Mexico border will start helping troopers make arrests, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, as the state begins filling a formerly empty prison with illegals accused of trespassing. Abbott said the Guard would “assist” troopers with arresting illegal immigrants on state charges...

(Associated Press) California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office said Tuesday he pulled his children out of a summer day camp that did not require kids to wear masks, a violation of state policy that Newsom's spokeswoman said he and his wife missed when reviewing communication from the camp. “The Newsoms were concerned...

(Headline USA) Republican Jake Ellzey of Texas won a U.S. House seat on Tuesday night over a rival backed by Donald Trump, dealing the former president a defeat in a test of his endorsement power since leaving office. Ellzey’s come-from-behind victory over Republican Susan Wright, the widow of the late Rep....

(Headline USA) A federal jury has convicted a wealthy Democratic donor in California on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other overdoses. Ed Buck was found guilty of all nine felony counts in federal court, which could lead to a...

(Headline USA) The Republican head of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee said Monday she will ensure there is a “comprehensive, forensic examination” of ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election at the same time the state's nonpartisan audit bureau conducts a review. The broadened investigation comes as the result of widespread...

(Headline USA) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton received former President Donald Trump’s endorsement Monday for election to a third term. In a statement, Trump said Paxton is strong on crime, border security, gun rights, sound elections and the U.S. Constitution. “He is a true Texan who will keep Texas safe — and...

(Headline USA) California and New York City announced Monday that they would require all government employees to get the coronavirus vaccine or face weekly COVID-19 testing, and the Department of Veterans Affairs became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to receive the shot. Meanwhile, in a possible...

(Associated Press) Former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer was assaulted and robbed Monday in Oakland, California, her son said. The assault happened in the Jack London Square neighborhood, according to a tweet on Boxer's verified Twitter account. “The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting...