(Headline USA) The partisan showdown over redistricting has hardly begun, but already both sides agree on one thing: It largely comes down to the South.
The states from North Carolina to Texas are set to be premier battlegrounds for the once-a-decade fight over redrawing political boundaries. That's thanks to a population...
(Headline USA) Environmental and community groups have sued a California county after the prime oil-drilling region approved a plan to fast-track thousands of new wells in a state that's positioned itself as a leader in combating so-called "climate change."
The Kern County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved a revised ordinance...
(Headline USA) The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over his death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial.
The Minneapolis City Council emerged from closed session to announce the settlement. Floyd...
(Headline USA) The mayor of Portland, Oregon, announced Thursday he would seek $2 million in one-time funding for police, other agencies and outreach programs to try to stem rampant gun violence in the city.
The move by Mayor Ted Wheeler represents an about-face after city leaders in June voted to cut...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the possibility of beginning to "mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July.
He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.
Speaking in...
(Headline USA) To pay out Democrats' coronavirus "relief" package --- of which only 10 percent of spending actually addresses virus-affected issues --- President Joe Biden must spend an average of $3.7 billion every day for the rest of this year.
That’s $43,000 every second of every day until midnight chimes on...
(Headline USA) Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked a leftist New York Times reporter this week for her over-the-top hypocrisy in claiming to be a bullying victim.
In response, the once admired paper not only rallied behind its snowflake reporter but launched yet another vicious and bullying attack on Carlson.
Although...
UPDATE 3/11/21 3:15 PM EDT VIA AP: A lawyer for Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that she reported a groping allegation made against him to police after the woman involved declined to press charges herself.
Beth Garvey, the governor's acting counsel, said in a statement that as a matter of...
(Headline USA) The Senate voted on Thursday to advance President Joe Biden’s nominee for health secretary as Democrats muscled past Republican opposition using a new procedure put in place to avoid gridlock in the evenly divided Senate.
The Senate Finance Committee split along party lines, 14-14, earlier this month on the...
(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday granted prosecutors’ request to add a third-degree murder charge against a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death, a move that offers jurors an additional option for conviction and finally resolves an issue that might have delayed his trial for months.
Hennepin County...
(Headline USA) Emboldened by their majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats are making a new push to enact the first major new gun control laws in more than two decades -- starting with stricter background checks.
The House passed legislation on Thursday to require background checks on all firearms sales...
(Headline USA) The massive, pork-filled COVID-19 "relief bill" Democrat progressives in Congress approved Wednesday will dump more than $150 billion of printed money into California, Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration said Wednesday, including a $26 billion windfall for the state's already burgeoning budget surplus.
Nearly half of the money will go to Californians directly...