(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday allowed a lawsuit alleging fraud in Georgia's most populous county during the November election and seeking a review of absentee ballots to move forward for now.
Originally filed in December, the lawsuit says there is evidence of fraudulent ballots and improper ballot counting in Fulton...
(Headline USA) Officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, have denied a claim for damages from Jacob Blake Jr., the black man who was paralyzed when he was shot by a white police officer last summer after resisting arrest and endangering his children in his vehicle while doing so.
Blake sought damages for medical...
(Associated Press) Iowa’s most liberal county is no longer named for a slave-owning U.S. vice president and instead will honor a trailblazing local black academic.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors voted Thursday to cut ties with its two-century namesake, former Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson, a lifelong slave owner from...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden declared on Thursday that “we have a deal,” announcing a bipartisan agreement on a $953 billion infrastructure plan that would achieve his top legislative priority and validate his efforts to reach across the political aisle.
Details of the deal were scarce, but the plan --- with...
(Headline USA) An appeals court suspended Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in New York because he "made false statements" while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.
An attorney disciplinary committee said in its motion to suspend Giuliani’s license that there was “uncontroverted evidence” that...
(Headline USA) The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol was forced out of his job Wednesday, after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate.
Rodney Scott wrote to agents that he will be reassigned, saying he “will continue working hard to support...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is nominating Cindy McCain to be the U.S. representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, one of 17 nominations announced Wednesday that included major diplomatic and arts assignments.
McCain, the widow of Arizona Sen. John McCain, broke with Republicans and endorsed Biden for...
(Headline USA) An exclusive Rhode Island beach club tied to Democrat U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has broken its silence to defend itself from claims that it’s for white people only after the controversy garnered national attention.
Bailey’s Beach Club in Newport said in a statement Wednesday that the recent characterizations are...
(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday will make her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, her office announced, after she has faced criticism from members of both parties for failing to go there despite her alleged role leading the Biden administration’s response to a steep increase in migration.
Harris...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a cheerleader over a vulgar social media post she made after she didn't qualify for the varsity team.
The court voted 8-1 in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California agriculture businesses in their challenge to a state regulation that gives unions access to farm property in order to organize workers.
As a result of the ruling, California will have to modify or abandon the regulation put in place in 1975...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Wednesday put limits on when police officers pursuing a fleeing suspect can enter a home without a warrant.
The high court ruled that when officers are pursuing someone suspected of a misdemeanor, a less serious crime, they cannot always enter a home without a warrant...