(Headline USA) Democrat Joe Biden’s choice to be Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, collected more than $7 million in speaking fees over the past two years from major financial firms and tech giants.
Despite evidence of widespread vote fraud, Biden has been declared by many to be the presumptive winner of...
(Headline USA) The top commander of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said Friday that his country was fully prepared to respond to any U.S. military pressure, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s administration.
Democrat Joe Biden has already indicated that he intends...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The in-depth, investigative report below marks a break with normal Headline USA conventions.
The piece, which appeared via the Associated Press syndication service on Wednesday, also marks a conspicuous change in tone for the wire agency.
After spending the past several months denying skeptics' insistence of all things...
(Headline USA) The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications.
The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local...
(Headline USA) China authorized its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use Thursday, adding another shot that could see wide use in poorer countries as the virus surges back around the globe.
Although China's months of researching the coronavirus pandemic and stockpiling provisions while downplaying it to other world leaders...
(Headline USA) The city that became the epicenter of nationwide race riots last summer, and an early test case for the viability of the "defund the police" movement, will face its next big challenge as simmering tensions seem likely to spill over into the new year---and a new presidential...
(Headline USA) Police and federal authorities are investigating after an employee at a Wisconsin health system admitted to deliberately spoiling 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine.
Aurora Medical Center first reported that the doses has been spoiled on Saturday, saying they had been accidentally left out unrefrigerated overnight by an employee...
(Headline USA) If there's one silver lining in a year marred by a deadly pandemic, civil unrest, and economic and political turmoil, it's this: Despite a steady rise in gun ownership, the number of mass shootings that happened in public was the lowest in more than a decade.
Experts who...
(Associated Press) The Canadian government said Wednesday that passengers must have a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days before they arrive in the country.
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the measure will be implemented in the next few days.
Canada already requires those entering the country to self-isolate for...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks all but died Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative approach of loading up the bill with other White House priorities.
The roadblock set by Senate Republicans appears unsurmountable, even as pressure builds to approve the...
(Headline USA) After decades of debate, legislators in deep-blue Maryland are finally sensing the opportunity is ripe for repealing the state song, a Civil War-era call to arms for the Confederacy against “Northern scum” that refers to Republican President Abraham Lincoln as a despot.
Directly below the Mason--Dixon line, Maryland...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump lashed out at congressional Republicans on Tuesday after the House easily voted to override his veto of a defense policy bill---one of two major congressional setbacks for the out-going GOP leader.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also blocked Democrats' push to immediately bring Trump's demand...