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(Headline USA) The Justice Department is warning Missouri officials that the state can’t ignore federal law, after the governor signed a bill last week that bans police from enforcing federal gun rules. In a letter sent Wednesday night and obtained by the Associated Press, Justice officials said the U.S. Constitution's Supremacy...

(Headline USA) The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday expanded its interpretation of federal Title IX regulations to include transgender and gay students, a reversal of Trump-era policy that also flies against proposals in many states to bar transgender athletes from competing against biological girls. In a new administrative directive that...

(Headline USA) Senate Democrats planned to forge ahead with a likely doomed vote on their sprawling elections and voting bill next week, even as it faces bipartisan opposition, including universal condemnation from Republicans in the evenly-split chamber. Democrats have made the HR/S1 elections overhaul a major focus, claiming they seek...

The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states....

(Headline USA) Cue the fireworks. President Joe Biden wants to imbue Independence Day with new meaning this year by encouraging nationwide celebrations to mark the country’s effective return to normalcy after 16 months of coronavirus pandemic disruption. The White House is expressing growing certainty that July Fourth will serve as a breakthrough moment...

(Headline USA) Rep. Marjorie Greene apologized Monday for recent comments comparing the forced wearing of masks in the House to the Holocaust. "I'm truly sorry for offending people with remarks about the Holocaust," the Georgia Republican told reporters outside the Capitol, saying she had visited Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum...

(Headline USA) A Republican-led hand recount of ballots cast in Arizona's most populous county hit a major milestone Monday when counters finished tallying all the regular ballots cast in November's presidential and U.S. Senate election, the Arizona Senate's liaison said. Ken Bennett, a Republican former secretary of state who has...

(Headline USA) The Senate on Monday confirmed the first appellate court judge of President Joe Biden's tenure, elevating a judge with strong prospects of landing on the president's short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise. Senators voted 53-44 to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Court of...

(Headline USA) Two more groups sued Florida over its new election integrity laws Monday, adding to the far-left organizations who claim, without evidence, that the rules could keep eligible voters from casting ballots. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee by the Fair Elections Center and the...

(Headline USA) There is no shortage of job openings for local election officials in Michigan. It's the same in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, too. After botching the 2020 presidential election and facing the potential of new punishments in certain states, county officials who run elections are quitting or retiring early. The once...

California's Democrat governor decried in starkly personal terms a federal judge's upending of the state's extralegal effort to restrict so-called assault weapons as officials announced the filing Thursday of a formal notice that they will appeal the decision. They characterized last week's ruling by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez as...

(Associated Press) A federal judge has halted a loan forgiveness program for farmers of color in response to a lawsuit alleging the program discriminates against white farmers. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach in Milwaukee issued a temporary restraining order Thursday suspending the program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, the Milwaukee...