SYNDICATION

(Headline USA) On a sweaty recent Thursday afternoon, Alex Berrios is instructing his team on how to get people to register to vote. Extend your hand, he says; it makes folks more likely to stop. Smile a lot, that works, too. But immediately take no for an answer so you...

(Headline USA) Immigrant activists say they have reached a settlement with the U.S. government so they can keep operating a free hotline that lets detained immigrants report concerns about custody conditions. Freedom for Immigrants said Thursday that a settlement was reached last week and approved by a federal court in...

(Associated Press) President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. 31, saying “speed is safety” as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war. “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build,” Biden said in a speech to update his...

(Headline USA) Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who once was the darling of the legacy media because he represented Stormy Daniels in lawsuits against President Donald Trump, was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to extort up to $25 million from Nike by threatening the...

(Associated Press) North Dakota has sued the Biden administration over its suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water, saying the move will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. President Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation’s...

(Headline USA) A Pennsylvania state lawmaker is launching a forensic investigation of the state’s 2020 presidential election and demanding cooperation from counties where left-wing officials are suspected to have helped orchestrate massive and systemic vote fraud. The plan follows the template of a similar effort in Arizona's Maricopa County, in...

(Associated Press) Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City after appealing to the political center and promising to strike the right balance between fighting crime and ending racial injustice in policing. A former police captain, Adams would be the city’s second Black...

(Headline USA) New York can try to sue gun manufacturers over harm caused by their products under legislation that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed Tuesday. The new law comes at a time when New York City in particular is facing a rise in shootings. Overall, violence is well short of the historic highs...

(Headline USA) The African Methodist Episcopal Church, the United States' oldest historically black denomination, launched its General Conference on Tuesday with delegates expected to address racial issues such as voting rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. “Our church claims to have the issue of justice in its DNA,” Senior...

(Headline USA) Many of the mantras embraced last year by the radical Left, such as "defund the police" and "Critical Race Theory" have quietly slipped into the background as backlash grows against the overtly racist rhetoric, which could prove a linchpin in next year's midterm election. Next to be taken...

(Headline USA) Top Biden administration officials on Tuesday hosted a brother to Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in the highest-level such visit known since the U.S. made public intelligence findings linking the crown prince to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It marked a surprise reversal from...

(Headline USA) The Pentagon said Tuesday it canceled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion. It will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Amazon and possibly other cloud service providers. “With the shifting technology environment, it has become clear that the JEDI...