(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks in Alabama's 2022 Senate race, siding with the conservative firebrand over other contenders in the state's all-important Republican primary.
Trump announced his support in a statement shared by the Brooks campaign for the seat being vacated by six-term Sen. Richard...
(Headline USA) St. Louis Treasurer Tishaura Jones, who has been outspoken in her criticism of the criminal justice system’s alleged “arrest and incarcerate” model, won election Tuesday and will take over as mayor in a city beset by yet another wave of violent crime.
Jones defeated Alderwoman Cara Spencer in the...
(Associated Press) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott used his executive power Tuesday to ban state government and some private entities from requiring COVID-19 vaccine passports to access services, in the latest move from a Republican governor pitting public health campaigns against personal freedom and private choices.
According to Abbott's order, state agencies and...
(Headline USA) Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday “it's quite stupid” for corporations to speak out politically, intensifying his warnings for big business to stand down as Congress delves into voting rights, President Joe Biden's infrastructure package and other defining issues.
Speaking in Kentucky, the GOP leader said he still...
(Headline USA) California plans to lift most coronavirus restrictions on businesses and workplaces June 15, with officials saying enough people should be vaccinated by then to allow for life to almost get back to a pre-pandemic normal.
The mask mandate in the nation's most populated state will remain in effect, Health...
(Headline USA) The cities of Green Bay, Kenosha and Racine are asking a federal judge to make former President Donald Trump pay more than $42,000 in legal fees in a case he brought challenging Wisconsin’s suspect presidential election results.
The request for legal fees comes just days after Gov. Tony Evers...
(Headline USA) Major League Baseball plans to relocate the All-Star Game to Coors Field in Denver after pulling this year’s Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to election integrity changes to Georgia’s voting laws, according to a person familiar with the decision.
The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden is promoting his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan directly to Americans, summoning public support to push past the Republicans lining up against the massive effort they sum up as big taxes, big spending and big government.
Republicans in Congress are oppose the costly American Jobs Plan...
(Headline USA) The president of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination, posted a photo on Facebook last week of him getting the COVID-19 vaccine. It drew more than 1,100 comments---many of them voicing admiration for the Rev. J.D. Greear, and many others assailing him.
Some of the critics...
(Headline USA) Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth, though lawmakers could enact the restriction over his objections.
The Republican governor rejected legislation that would have prohibited doctors from providing gender...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case over former President Donald Trump's efforts to block critics from his personal Twitter account.
The court said there was nothing left to the case after Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter and ended his presidential term in January.
Twitter banned Trump two...
(Headline USA) Vaccine passports being developed to verify COVID-19 immunization status and allow inoculated people to more freely travel, shop and dine have become the latest flash point in America’s perpetual political wars, with Republicans calling them a heavy-handed intrusion into personal freedom and private health choices.
They currently exist in...