(Headline USA) Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua have pulled production of their runaway slave drama “Emancipation” from Georgia over the state's recently enacted election integrity law.
The film is the largest and most high profile Hollywood production to depart the state since Georgia's Republican-controlled state Legislature passed a law that...
(Headline USA) It was supposed to be a unifying weekend for a Republican Party. But former president Donald Trump shattered two days of relative peace in his closing remarks to the GOP’s top donors when he insulted the party’s Senate leader and his wife.
Ahead of the invitation-only speech at Trump’s...
(Headline USA) Nevada's Republican Party voted to censure the secretary of state, accusing her of failing to fully investigate allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.
She says there was no widespread fraud and that her own party is attacking her for refusing to "put my thumb on the scale...
(Headline USA) Two Alabama state senators say they want to divert part of a statewide property tax tied to the legacy of the Confederacy to preserve and promote black history in the state.
Alabama imposed the tax to fund pensions for Confederate soldiers and their widows, and still collects it...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump staked his claim to the Republican Party in a closed-door speech to donors Saturday night, making it clear a Republican presidential candidate would win in 2024 and that he still runs the party.
The former president delivered his remarks behind closed doors at his...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, creating a commission led by two former lawyers in the Obama administration, that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for...
UPDATE 3:00 PM EDT: In response to an alleged COVID-19 "resurgence" in the state of Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has reverted to a lockdown posture for the state's private businesses and public operations. The Center Square reports:
A surge in COVID-19 cases in Michigan has prompted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to...
(Associated Press) Rep. Matt Gaetz is retaining two prominent New York attorneys as he faces a Justice Department investigation into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls.
Marc Mukasey and Isabelle Kirshner will lead the Florida Republican's legal team, a Gaetz spokesperson said in a statement Friday.
“Matt has always been a fighter....
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court in California refused Thursday to permit 14 states led by Republican governors to challenge the overturning of a Trump-era immigration rule affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against permitting intervention by the states,...
(Headline USA) Texas child welfare officials said Wednesday they received three reports alleging abuse and neglect at a San Antonio coliseum that is holding more than 1,600 immigrant teenagers who crossed the southern border.
State officials announced they are investigating such allegations at one of the emergency facilities the Biden administration...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden, in his first major gun control measures since taking office, is announcing executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing what the White House calls a “gun violence public health epidemic."
Biden also is nominating David Chipman, a former federal agent and adviser at the gun control group...
(Headline USA) A lawsuit by former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill of California against the Daily Mail was dismissed Wednesday by a judge who said the tabloid was protected under the First Amendment when it published nude photos of her.
Judge Yolanda Orozco wrote in her decision that she accepted the Daily...