(Headline USA) U.S employers added just 49,000 jobs in January, a sign that that the viral pandemic retains a tight grip on the economy as blue-state governors have kept their citizens under lockdowns, while President Joe Biden's campaign prediction of a "dark winter" is fulfilled.
The tepid increase followed a decline...
(Associated Press) The Senate early Friday approved a measure that would let Democrats muscle President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan through the chamber without Republican support.
Vice President Kamala Harris was in the chair to cast the tie-breaking vote, her first.
Democrats in the chamber applauded after Harris announced the...
(Headline USA) Minnesota Senate Republicans on Thursday offered a counterproposal to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz's request for security funding ahead of next month's murder trial for the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd.
The Republican proposal would target Minneapolis by requiring cities to pay for assistance provided by other...
(Associated Press) Two grocery industry trade groups have filed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle over its new law mandating $4 an hour pay raises for grocery stores.
The suit was filed by the Northwest Grocery Association and the Washington Food Industry Association Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle,...
(Associated Press) President Joe Biden has formally stopped the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Germany that was ordered last year by the Trump administration but had never actually begun.
Speaking at the State Department on Thursday, Biden said the troop pullout would be halted until Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin does...
(Headline USA) Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the Capitol siege in January.
In a letter dated Thursday and addressed to SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, Trump said he was resigning from the union that he had been...
(Associated Press) Financier Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend claims she is being prosecuted on sex abuse charges that could put her in prison for life because Epstein killed himself and prosecutors wanted a substitute to replace him with, lawyers said in newly unsealed court papers.
Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers challenged the case brought against...
Johnson & Johnson asked U.S. regulators Thursday to clear the world’s first single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, an easier-to-use option that could boost scarce supplies.
J&J’s vaccine was safe and offered strong protection against moderate to severe COVID-19, according to preliminary results from a massive international study.
It didn’t appear quite as strong...
(Headline USA) A former University of Florida professor and researcher fraudulently obtained $1.8 million in federal grant money while concealing support he received from the Chinese government and a company that he founded in China to profit from that research, U.S. officials said.
An indictment unsealed Wednesday charges Lin Yang,...
UPDATE: Former president Donald Trump's lawyers responded to a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., that sought to bait Trump into testifying under oath---and opening the door for Democrats to lay a perjury trap with questions on irrelevant subjects.
Trump attorneys David Schoen and Bruce Castor shot down the...
Shrugging off the inflammatory remarks that their own members have frequently made on social media and other forums, House Democrats managed by six votes to strip a member of the opposition party of two key committee assignments.
Democrats voted 216--210 to move forward with the procedure, the Gateway Pundit reported.
If...
(Headline USA) A voting technology company is suing Fox News, three of its hosts and two former lawyers for former President Donald Trump — Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell — for $2.7 billion, charging that the defendants conspired to spread false claims that the company helped “steal” the U.S. presidential election.
The...