(Headline USA) The San Francisco school board has voted to remove the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from public schools after officials deemed them and other prominent figures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, unworthy of the honor.
After months of controversy, the board voted 6-1 Tuesday in favor of renaming...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is set to announce a wide-ranging moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on U.S. lands and waters, as his administration moves quickly to reverse Trump administration policies on energy and the environment to address so-called "climate change."
Two people with knowledge of Biden’s plans outlined...
(Headline USA) Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was taken to a hospital Tuesday evening after not feeling well, a spokesman said, hours after the 80-year-old Democrat began presiding over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
Leahy, who'd been in his Capitol office, was taken to the hospital “out of...
(Headline USA) Senators took oaths Tuesday to ensure “impartial justice” as jurors in Donald Trump's unconstitutional impeachment trial, after the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol.
But some Republican senators are challenging the legitimacy of the trial and whether Trump's repeated questioning of the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s election really constitute...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S. government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining order sought by Texas, which sued on Friday against a Department of Homeland Security memo...
(Associated Press) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell backed off his demand that Senate Democrats preserve the procedural tool known as the filibuster, easing a standoff with new Majority Leader Chuck Schumer as the two negotiated a power-sharing agreement in the closely divided chamber.
McConnell said late Monday he had essentially accomplished...
(Headline USA) Twitter has permanently banned MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s account after he continued to make the case that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, but that widespread vote fraud gave the White House to Joe Biden.
Twitter decided to ban Lindell, who founded bedding company MyPillow, due to...
(Headline USA) The world must take decisive action to build resilience to the devastating effects of climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a global virtual summit Monday, pledging that Democrat Joe Biden's new regime would play its role.
In a video message to the Climate Adaptation Summit hosted...
(Headline USA) During the Trump administration's final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail Democrat Joe Biden's efforts to open America's borders.
The agreements say Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas are entitled to a 180-day consultation period before...
(Headline USA) It was learned on Monday that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is not expected to preside at the impeachment trial of now-former President Donald Trump, potentially affecting the gravitas of the proceedings.
The shift is said to be in keeping with the U.S. Constitution, because Trump is no...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency.
The justices threw out Trump’s challenge to lower court rulings that had allowed lawsuits to go forward alleging that he violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause by accepting payments from foreign...
(Headline USA) California lifted regional stay-at-home orders across the state Monday in response to allegedly improving coronavirus conditions, returning the state to a system of county-by-county restrictions, state health officials announced.
The order had been in place in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, covering the...