(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol siege “will do the job it set out to do” despite Republicans’ vow to boycott the probe.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Wednesday that Republicans won’t participate after Pelosi rejected two of the Republicans he...
(Headline USA) The chief executive of Unilever on Thursday said the global consumer goods giant remains “fully committed” to doing business in Israel, distancing himself from this week’s announcement by anti-Semitic company Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to stop serving Israeli "settlements" in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
But CEO...
(Headline USA) China cannot accept the World Health Organization's plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.
Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was “rather taken aback" that the plan includes further investigation...
(Headline USA) A California judge on Wednesday cleared the way for conservative talk radio host Larry Elder to join the field of candidates for an upcoming recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office.
Victory! My next one will be on Sept. 14 at the ballot box....
UPDATE 1:50 PM: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected two Republicans tapped by House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a decision McCarthy denounced as “an egregious abuse of power.”
McCarthy said the GOP won't participate the investigation if Democrats won't...
(Headline USA) Senate Democrats accused Republicans Wednesday of a “shameless, cynical” ploy that would damage the economy and the government's credit rating after the chamber's GOP leader said his party would vote against raising the federal debt limit.
In the latest chapter of a broad budget battle likely to linger well...
(Headline USA) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell implored unvaccinated Americans Tuesday to take the COVID-19 shot, issuing a stark and grave warning of a repeat of last year's rising caseloads and shutdowns if people refuse to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
McConnell urged Americans to ignore the “demonstrably bad advice” coming...
(Headline USA) Israel’s prime minister vowed Tuesday to “act aggressively” against the decision by Ben & Jerry’s to stop selling its ice cream in Israeli territories it says are "occupied," as the country’s ambassador to the U.S. urged dozens of state governors to punish the company under anti-boycott laws.
The strong...
UPDATE 7/21/21 7:00 AM: Following yesterday's confrontation during a Senate hearing between Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease bureaucrat at the National Institutes of Health, the Kentucky Senator told Fox News' Sean Hannity Tuesday night that he is referring Fauci to the Justice...
(Headline USA) When Dr. Alexa Mieses Malchuk talks to patients about the COVID-19 vaccine, she tries to feel out where they get their information from.
“Sometimes I feel like the education I have to provide depends on what news channel that they watch,” the doctor in Durham, North Carolina, said.
The...
(Headline USA) Texas Democrats who fled their public obligations to avoid a difficult vote on election integrity were derailed by a charter plane ride---paid for by Beto O'Rourke and Willie Nelson---in which they opted to violate health and aviation mandates for masking.
But the super-spreading scofflaws vowed to press on...
(Headline USA) Senate Democrats were beginning to apply pressure to move a massive pair of big-spending 'infrastructure' bills out off committee and onto the floor.
Republicans countered, however, that the way to pay for the bills---and their final price tag---was nowhere near settled, and that forcing a vote now could...