(Associated Press) Utah is a step closer to requiring all cellphones and tablets sold in the conservative state to automatically block pornography after the Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday that critics call a significant intrusion of free speech.
Gov. Spencer Cox has said the measure would send an “important message” about...
(Associated Press) Gun control advocates are making a new attempt to force the gun industry to comply with California's unique law requiring individual identifiers on all bullet casings, a mandate that has been toothless since it was approved in 2007.
The law requires gun manufacturers to adopt micro-stamping technology on new...
(Associated Press) The New York Legislature's impeachment investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo is likely to take “months,” the chair of the Assembly’s judiciary committee said Tuesday.
Cuomo, a Democrat, has resisted calls for his resignation after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment.
He’s also facing outrage over his administration’s decision to...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images like those released Monday of immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions.
Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention...
(Headline USA) Washington, D.C.'s bid for statehood finally got a congressional hearing Monday, but Mayor Muriel Bowser's clashes with Republicans and overheated rhetoric from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on the panel made clear that the issue is far from settled.
Republicans accused Democrats of a cynical power play, claimed statehood was...
(Associated Press) Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.
The Chicago suburb’s City Council voted 8-1 to distribute $400,000 to eligible black households.
Each qualifying household would receive $25,000 for home repairs or...
(Headline USA) University of Iowa administrators can be held liable for monetary damages for improperly barring a Christian student group that rejects homosexual relationships, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, in a victory for religious conservatives on college campuses.
The administrators do not enjoy qualified immunity from the lawsuit brought by...
(Headline USA) Eric Greitens, the retired Navy SEAL officer who rose quickly to become Missouri governor before scandal forced him out of office just a year and a half into his tenure, announced Monday that he will run for the Senate seat being vacated by fellow Republican Roy Blunt.
The...
(Headline USA) A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple went on trial Monday in yet another lawsuit, this one involving a birthday cake for a transgender woman.
Autumn Scardina attempted to...
(Headline USA) Former president Donald Trump, the de facto kingmaker of the GOP, faced one of his first post-presidency political dilemmas as Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., entered the race to replace retiring Sen. Richard Shelby. He is the second pro-Trump candidate to do so.
"America’s status as the greatest nation...
(Headline USA) The Army is kicking out the leg tuck.
On Monday, it ended its requirement that soldiers do at least one leg tuck — where they hang from a bar and pull their knees up near their shoulders — as part of the new physical fitness test, as it became...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider reinstating the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, presenting President Joe Biden with an early test of his opposition to capital punishment.
The justices agreed to hear an appeal filed by the Trump administration, which carried out executions of...