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(Headline USA) Los Angeles County residents will again be required to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status, while the University of California system said that students, faculty and staff must be inoculated against the coronavirus to return to campuses. Several studies show that masks have no positive effect on...

(Headline USA) California lawmakers on Thursday approved the first state-funded guaranteed income plan in the U.S., $35 million for monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care with no restrictions on how they spend it. The votes — 36-0 in the Senate and 64-0...

(Associated Press) The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said Thursday he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus. In a rare...

(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...