(Associated Press) Florida detectives have cleared Palm Beach County prosecutors and sheriff's officials of criminal wrongdoing in connection with their handling of wealthy and prominent sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago, reports released Monday show.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said in its reports that it found...
(Headline USA) Eduardo Rovetto is hoping the state of Vermont's reinstated requirement that people who are collecting unemployment benefits must seek work to qualify will help him hire enough staff for his restaurant in the resort town of Stowe.
After more than a year of coronavirus restrictions on his business,...
(Associated Press) The operator of a major U.S. pipeline hit by a cyberattack said Monday it hopes to have service mostly restored by the end of the week.
Colonial Pipeline offered the update after revealing that it had halted operations because of a ransomware attack the FBI has linked to a...
(Headline USA) There's a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in the high-stakes debate over whether politicians who support abortion should be denied Communion.
Cordileone, who has long established himself as a forceful anti-abortion campaigner, recently has made clear his...
(Associated Press) The operator of a major pipeline system that transports fuel across the East Coast said Saturday it had been victimized by a ransomware attack and had halted all pipeline operations to deal with the threat.
Colonial Pipeline did not say what was demanded or who made the demand....
(Headline USA) California’s population fell by more than 182,000 people in 2020, marking the first year-over-year loss ever recorded for the nation’s most populous state.
State officials announced Friday that California’s population dipped 0.46% to just under 39.5 million people from January 2020 to January 2021.
The news comes one week after...
(Headline USA) Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said Friday she has wrestled since her first year in office with whether to seek a second term, and this week she made a final decision to step aside even as she insisted she doesn't know what she'll do next.
“Leadership sometimes is...
(Headline USA) A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of willfully violating his constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air.
A three-count indictment unsealed Friday names Derek Chauvin, Thomas...
(Headline USA) The corrupt World Health Organization gave emergency use authorization Friday to a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China's state-run Sinopharm.
The rubber-stamp from the WHO, which has continued to carry water for China throughout the pandemic, comes in spite of concerns from academics about the lack of transparency in...
(Headline USA) America’s employers added just 266,000 jobs last month, sharply lower than in March and a sign that some businesses are struggling to find enough workers.
President Joe Biden’s relief package added $300 to weekly unemployment benefits.
Bank of America economist Michelle Meyer calculated that for people who earned under $32,000...
(Associated Press) A federal appeals court ordered a new trial on Thursday for former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, once a powerful Florida Democrat.
She had served just over two years of a five-year sentence for fraud and other crimes related to a purported charity for poor students that prosecutors said she...
(Headline USA) A Republican lawmaker in Colorado was reprimanded Thursday after calling a colleague “Buckwheat” during debate on legislation.
Colleagues on the Left rushed the podium, accusing him of racism for invoking the minstrel-like character from a 1930s series, who was endearingly portrayed on Saturday Night Live as one of...