(Headline USA) The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.
The practice had made it harder for black...
(Associated Press) A federal election watchdog fined the publisher of the National Enquirer $187,500 for squelching the story of a former Playboy model who claimed she'd had an affair with former President Donald Trump.
The Federal Election Commission fined A360 Media, formerly known as American Media, for paying Karen McDougal $150,000...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is announcing a “month of action” Wednesday to urge more Americans to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before the July 4 holiday, with an early summer sprint of incentives, including free beer, childcare and sports tickets to convince Americans to roll up their sleeves.
In an afternoon...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration on Tuesday suspended oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing a drilling program approved by the Trump administration and reviving a political fight over a remote region that is home to a rich reserve of oil.
The moves follow moves by the...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court.
A seven-page memo by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas marked the end of the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” which returned about 70,000 asylum-seekers to Mexico from...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden called out two fellow Democrats on Tuesday in explaining why he hasn’t enacted some of the most ambitious elements of his agenda, noting that slim majorities in the House and evenly divided Senate have hamstrung legislative negotiations.
Biden, speaking during an event marking the 100th anniversary...
(Associated Press) The University of Rhode Island is weighing whether to revoke an honorary degree bestowed years ago to Michael Flynn, a university alumnus who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser.
The Providence Journal reports the school's honorary degree committee met on Jan. 29 and Feb. 5 at...
(Headline USA) Three Pennsylvania lawmakers will be in Arizona Wednesday to check out the state Senate GOP’s audit of the 2020 election.
They’re the latest Republicans to make a pilgrimage to Phoenix, Ground Zero in the “stop the steal” movement's push to assure the presidential election was conducted accurately and fairly.
The...
(Associated Press) The number of abortions performed in Kansas increased by 9.1% last year as far more women traveled from Oklahoma and Texas to terminate pregnancies than in 2019 and the state reported that out-of-state patients outnumbered Kansas patients for the first time in almost 50 years.
The state Department of...
(Headline USA) Texas Republicans pressed ahead with their push for election integrity Tuesday, vowing to ensure Democrats' weekend victory over their anti-vote-fraud measures would only be temporary.
GOP Gov. Greg Abbott prepared to call lawmakers back for a special session to revive the voting measure that died when Democrats staged a...
(Headline USA) An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus restrictions, an uptick that's come amid travel restrictions at the border with Mexico.
For more than a year, the closure of the...
UPDATE 5/31/21 6:00 AM VIA AP: Texas Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the state House of Representatives on Sunday night to block passage of one of the strongest election integrity bills in the U.S., leaving Republicans with no choice but to abandon a midnight deadline and declare...