(Headline USA) The board overseeing the Los Angeles Unified School District has cut $25 million from the budget for school police and will use the money to help fund an achievement plan for black students.
The plan approved by the school board Tuesday will cut 70 sworn officers, 62 non-sworn...
(Headline USA) Democrat Alex Lasry, a 33-year-old Milwaukee Bucks executive and son of a billionaire, announced Wednesday that he's running for the U.S. Senate in 2022 for the seat held by Republican Ron Johnson.
The race is expected to be one of the most hotly contested in the country with control...
(Headline USA) Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday she knows her vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his recent Senate impeachment trial could have political consequences, “but I can't be afraid of that.”
If the people of Alaska decide that “because I did not support my party...
(Headline USA) By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the COVID-19 vaccine as frustrated commanders scramble to downplay negative information they learn on the Internet and find the right pitch that will persuade troops to get the shot.
Some Army units are seeing as few as one-third...
(Headline USA) In the most caustic sign yet of deepening GOP divisions, former President Donald Trump blistered Mitch McConnell as a “political hack” on Tuesday, days after the Senate’s top Republican denounced him as the inciter of U.S. Capitol attack.
BREAKING: Trump issues statement SLAMMING @LeaderMcConnell
“Mitch is a dour, sullen, and...
(Headline USA) After former president Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate of inciting last month's U.S. Capitol insurrection, Democrats immediately began plotting new ways to keep the focus on Trump instead of new President Joe Biden.
The former leader faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from...
(Headline USA) A Democrat congressman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit on Tuesday of inciting the siege at the U.S. Capitol and of conspiring, without evidence, with his lawyer and extremist groups to try to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe...
(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that Congress will establish an independent, Sept. 11-style commission to look into the deadly insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol.
Pelosi said the commission will “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist...
(Headline USA) The North Carolina Republican Party unanimously approved a resolution Monday to censure lame-duck Sen. Richard Burr over his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Michael Whatley, the state party chairman, said the central committee's decision serves as a symbolic gesture of the party's...
(Headline USA) Under fire over his management of the coronavirus's lethal path through New York’s nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the state didn't cover up deaths but should have moved faster to release some information sought by lawmakers, the public and the press.
“All the deaths in the nursing...
(Associated Press) A proposal by Gov. Tim Walz to create a $35 million fund to bolster security during the murder trial of a former Minneapolis officer charged with killing George Floyd stalled out in the Democratic-controlled Minnesota House on Monday when leaders pulled the bill, acknowledging that they lacked enough...
(Associated Press) The Congressional Budget Office says the federal government is on track for a $2.3 trillion deficit this year, down roughly $900 billion from last year when the coronavirus pandemic led Congress to provide historic amounts of financial aid.
Stronger economic growth has helped to reduce the anticipated shortfall for...