(Headline USA) The Justice Department is investigating the finances of Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, including scrutinizing some of his Chinese business dealings and other transactions, a person familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.
The revelations put a renewed spotlight on questions about Hunter Biden’s financial history, which dogged...
(Headline USA) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.
The attack included identifying two university administrators by name.
Pompeo took aim at universities across the U.S., claiming they refused to address the Trump administration’s...
(Headline USA) The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a budget early Thursday that will shift about $8 million from the police department toward violence prevention and other programs — but will keep the mayor's targeted staffing levels for sworn officers intact, averting a possible veto.
Mayor Jacob Frey, who had threatened...
(Headline USA) Minneapolis City Council members who tried unsuccessfully to dismantle the police department in response to George Floyd's death are voting Wednesday on whether to shrink it, a move that could imperil the entire city budget because the mayor is threatening to use his veto to protect public safety...
(Headline USA) Idaho public health officials abruptly ended a meeting Tuesday after the Boise mayor and chief of police said intense protests outside the health department building — as well as outside some health officials' homes — were threatening public safety.
The request from Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and the Boise...
(Headline USA) It had been over two decades since a Republican captured a Democratic-held congressional district in California.
This year, Republicans took four.
The stunning victories have California GOP leaders talking about a comeback after years of teetering on the brink of irrelevance in the heavily Democratic state. Even as President Donald...
UPDATE 10:45 AM: President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that his lawyers will seek to intervene in the lawsuit brought before the Supreme Court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. From The Epoch Times:
“We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump celebrated the expected approval of the first U.S. vaccine for the coronavirus Tuesday as the White House worked to instill confidence in the massive distribution effort that may largely be executed by Joe Biden.
Trump said the expected approvals are coming before most people thought possible.
“They...
(Headline USA) Former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill won a restraining order Tuesday against her ex-husband, whom she accused of choking and threatening her during years of abuse and of leaking nude photos and other information that led to her resignation.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Kenneth Heslep to stay...
(Headline USA) Rioters outraged with the arrests of seven people at a home where a family was removed in September hurled rocks at officers, sprayed a fire extinguisher at them and damaged police vehicles on Tuesday.
The violence happened in broad daylight, and by evening, Mayor Ted Wheeler sent out a...
(Headline USA) Terry McAuliffe is trying to get his old job back.
The former Virginia governor is set to announce a formal bid for governor Wednesday morning in Richmond, according to a McAuliffe aide who was not authorized to speak publicly about the campaign.
McAuliffe, once best known as a top Democrat...
(Headline USA) An activist federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn but pointedly noted that a pardon Flynn received from the president last month does not mean that he is innocent.
The order from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan was expected...