(Associated Press) Swiss voters narrowly approved on Sunday a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
The measure will outlaw covering one's face in public places like restaurants, sports stadiums, public...
(Headline USA) Los Angeles county officials may give a black family a beachfront property that was seized from their ancestors nearly a century ago.
Manhattan Beach used eminent domain in 1924 to force Willa and Charles Bruce, the city's first black landowners, off the land where they lived, KABC-TV reported...
(Headline USA) Senate passage of the sweeping $1.9 trillion bailout bill Saturday puts President Joe Biden's top priority closer to becoming law.
"Lessons learned: If we have unity, we can do big things," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told The Associated Press in an interview after the vote.
The outcome...
(Headline USA) At least a hundred people gathered at the front of the Idaho Capitol on Saturday to burn masks in a protest against tyrannical mandates.
Some groups say mask mandates deny God-given and Constitutional rights. Health experts say, without evidence, that they help slow the spread of the disease.
Republican...
(Headline USA) As President Joe Biden's crisis of unaccompanied minors explodes at the border, the administration announced Friday that it planned to lift the cap on long-term detention centers, despite ongoing concerns about the spread of coronavirus among illegal immigrants.
A memo issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Health...
(Headline USA) It was Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy-winning performance: daily televised coronavirus briefings in which the New York governor projected competence and compassion, helping to calm a nervous nation.
Now, many Americans whose positive impressions of Cuomo were formed during the height of the pandemic are getting a close-up of a very...
(Associated Press) Top aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo altered a state Health Department report to obscure the true number of people killed by COVID-19 in the state's nursing homes, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times reported late Thursday.
The aides, including the secretary to the governor, Melissa DeRosa,...
(Headline USA) The Pentagon is reviewing a police request to keep National Guard troops patrolling the U.S. Capitol for another 60 days following thinly supported claims of a “possible plot.”
Based on online rumors, authorities said they were worried a militia group might storm the building again, two months after...
(Headline USA) One of the women who accused New York's Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexually harassing her at the workplace said she was motivated to come forward after another woman contacted her sharing similar allegations---and following the Democratic governor's name being floated as a potential nominee for a...
(Headline USA) The Congressional Budget Office estimated Thursday that persistent budget deficits will cause the federal debt to double in size over the next 30 years.
Following the 2008 financial crisis and the pandemic, the government has depended heavily on borrowing and low interest rates to help an ailing economy.
But as...
(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Thursday made it harder for longtime immigrants who have been convicted of a crime to avoid deportation.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the opinion for a 5-3 conservative majority that ruled against a Mexican citizen who entered the U.S. illegally and has lived in the country...
(Headline USA) With Democrats controlling the presidency and Congress, Republican state lawmakers concerned about the possibility of new federal gun control laws aren't waiting to react.
Legislation in at least a dozen states seeks to nullify any new restrictions, such as ammunition limits or a ban on certain types of weapons....