(Headline USA) Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, one of just 10 Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump over the siege of the Capitol, defended his decision while taking pointed criticism from voters Wednesday night.
“What we witnessed at the Capitol — the attempted insurrection, the involvement of a sitting American...
(Associated Press) Scores of Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. had more than $10 billion in cash and other readily available funds when they received at least $1.5 billion from the nation’s emergency relief program for small businesses slammed by the coronavirus, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The financial resources...
(Headline USA) John Matze says he has been fired as CEO of Parler, the alternative to Twitter and Facebook that become a popular choice for conservatives after the large social media companies went on a censorship spree.
Matze’s announcement Wednesday followed Amazon’s Jan. 11 decision to remove Parler from its web-hosting...
(Headline USA) The city of San Francisco took a dramatic step Wednesday in its effort to get children back into public school classrooms, suing its own school district to try to force open the doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The lawsuit was the first of its kind in California and possibly...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university illegally discriminated against Asian American and white applicants.
The Justice Department noted in its filing that it was voluntarily dismissing the action, filed in October under the Trump administration.
A judge must still...
(Headline USA) The nation's top infectious disease expert doesn't want the Super Bowl to turn into a super spreader.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, says when it comes to Super Bowl parties during the pandemic, people should “just lay low and cool it.”
He said during TV interviews Wednesday that now isn’t the time...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden panned a Republican alternative to his $1.9 trillion COVID rescue plan as insufficient as Senate Democrats pushed ahead, voting to launch a process that could approve his sweeping rescue package on their own, if Republicans refuse to support it.
Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen joined...
(Headline USA) Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon as an online bookstore and built it into a shopping and entertainment behemoth, will step down later this year as CEO---a role he's had for nearly 30 years---to become executive chairman, the company announced Tuesday.
Bezos, 57, will be replaced in the fall...
(Headline USA) House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., faced unrest Tuesday from opposing ends of the Republican spectrum over Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., underscoring GOP fissures as the party seeks its pathway without Donald Trump in the White House.
Trump-allied lawmakers were itching to oust...
(Headline USA) Republican Kevin Faulconer, the former San Diego mayor, formally rolled out his campaign for California governor Tuesday with a blistering attack on Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The event began with a symbolic flourish: Faulconer arrived in a yellow school bus to underscore the frustration of parents whose kids...
(Headline USA) One of the political boons that Democrat politicians hoped to gain from their coronavirus-inspired lockdowns was to inflict maximum suffering on voters who would blame then-President Donald Trump.
But with Trump out of office, they are now the ones facing the heat from outraged voters in areas that...
(Headline USA) Michigan's environmental agency said Friday it has approved construction of an underground tunnel to house a replacement for a controversial oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.
The decision, a victory for Enbridge Inc., comes as the Canadian company resists Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's demand...