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(Headline USA) Democrats' efforts to include a minimum wage increase in their $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill seemed all but dead Monday as Senate leaders prepared to begin debate on their own version of the House-passed aid package. Top Democrats abandoned a potential amendment threatening tax increases on big companies...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden met virtually Monday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador---a chance for the pair to talk more fully about migration, confronting the coronavirus and cooperating on economic and national security issues. The meeting came as Biden's decision to dial back several of the Trump administration's...

(Headline USA) The Senate voted Monday to confirm Miguel Cardona as education secretary, clearing his way to lead President Joe Biden’s effort to reopen the nation’s schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. Cardona was one of several deeply controversial nominees due to his radical viewpoints, including his support for critical-race theory,...

(Headline USA) Taking the stage for the first time since leaving office, former President Donald Trump called for GOP unity, even as he attacked a small segment of Republicans who hate him in a speech that made clear he intends to remain a dominant political force. Speaking Sunday at the Conservative Political...

(Headline USA) The House approved a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill loaded with progressive agenda items that have nothing to do with addressing the disease or its effects, in a win for President Joe Biden, even as top Democrats tried assuring agitated leftists that they’d revive their derailed drive to boost...

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Leftists reassure Americans that hiking the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour will rescue laborers from destitution. Biden said last month: “Fifteen dollars gets people above the poverty line.” Alas, as Monty Python once put it, there’s just...

(Headline USA) California is freeing up as much as $28 million to help immigrants arriving from Mexico who are released in the U.S. until their court dates. The radical leftist state---which has seen a significant exodus of citizens due to its high cost of living and nanny-state policies---signaled a sharp...

President Joe Biden’s and Democrats' $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill includes so much special interest funding that it will force a $36-billion cut to Medicare starting in 2021, according to a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. And as much as $90 million in...

(Headline USA) St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to restore her authority to prosecute a couple accused of wielding guns at "racial injustice" marauders who trespassed into and terrorized a private neighborhood last summer. Gardner’s office on Thursday petitioned the state Supreme Court to block...

(Associated Press) Saudi Arabia's crown prince likely approved the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, according to a newly declassified U.S. intelligence report released Friday. The finding could escalate pressure on the Biden administration to hold the kingdom accountable for a murder that drew widespread...

(Headline USA) Less than a month after excoriating Donald Trump in a blistering floor speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that he would “absolutely” support the former president again if he secured the Republican nomination in 2024. The Kentucky Republican told Fox News that there's still “a lot to...

(Headline USA) The Senate parliamentarian dealt a potentially lethal blow Thursday to Democrats’ drive to hike the minimum wage, deciding that the cherished progressive goal must fall from a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill the party is trying to speed through Congress, Senate Democratic aides said. The finding by Elizabeth MacDonough,...