(Associated Press) The FBI made “fundamental” errors in investigating sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar and did not treat the case with the “utmost seriousness,” the Justice Department's inspector generalsaid Wednesday. More athletes said they were molested before the the FBI swung into action.
The...
(Associated Press) Norwegian Cruise Line is challenging a new Florida law that prevents cruise companies from requiring passengers to show proof of vaccination against the COVID-19 virus.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Miami federal court, contends that the law jeopardizes safe operation of cruise ships by increasing risk of contracting the...
(Headline USA) As if encouraging young children to embrace gender dysphoria and anti-American Critical Race Theory were not enough, leftist officials are now plotting ways to alter their genetic material without parents' knowledge or consent.
Tennessee's Department of Health recently fired one such bureaucrat, Michelle Fiscus, who was the medical...
(Associated Press) A federal law that for more than 50 years has banned licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults between age 18 and 21 is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In a 2-1 opinion, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned a lower...
(Headline USA) Inflation at the wholesale level jumped 1% in June, pushing price gains over the past 12 months up by a record 7.3%.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that the June increase in its producer price index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach consumers, followed a gain of 0.8%...
(Headline USA) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will issue an order this week about how migrant children are treated under a public health order that has prevented people from seeking asylum at the nation's borders, a Justice Department attorney said Tuesday.
The comment by Assistant U.S. Attorney...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden invoked Nazis and Confederates while insisting Tuesday that Democrat efforts to block state-led voting reforms were an urgent national "test of our time.”
After the suspicious circumstances of Biden's own election, several GOP-led state legislatures were spurred to pursue audits and try to close loopholes...
(Headline USA) Congressional Democrats and open-borders immigration activists are staring at their best chance in years to overcome opposition from immigration-law advocates and give millions of people in the U.S. without legal authorization a way to become voting-eligible citizens.
Their goal is to stuff the language into a huge measure...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated former Sen. Jeff Flake, a squishy ex-Republican lawmaker who endorsed his 2020 run for the White House, to serve as U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
Flake served in the U.S. Senate from Arizona from 2013 to 2019 and in the U.S. House from...
(Headline USA) Texas Democrats who hurriedly fled to Washington --- maskless, on two chartered jets, carting at least one case of beer --- to block new election integrity laws back home acknowledged Tuesday they can't stay away forever and urged Congress to act on voting rights.
Meanwhile Republican Gov. Greg Abbott...
(Headline USA) Prices for U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most in 13 years, signaling that a swift rebound in spending has run up against widespread supply shortages that have escalated the costs of many goods and services.
Tuesday's report from the Labor Department showed that consumer prices in June...
(Headline USA) The men Ed Buck lured to his apartment for “party and play” found themselves in a situation of life and death, prosecutors said.
Two men enticed by the promise of drugs for sex died. Those who survived overdoses reported harrowing encounters with a man bent on injecting them with...