(Headline USA) When Califorina leftists voted to impose a $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast-food workers, many warned of the unintended consequences, including massive price hikes on food in an already inflationary economy.
That, however, may have been more of a feature than a glitch for the nanny state, which has...
(Headline USA) Drawing inspiration from the Obama-era "Operation Choke Point" and the controversial ESG investing movement, the Biden administration is using a sticks-and-carrots approach to force banks to follow its aggressively woke agenda.
On one hand, it has threatned banks with fines and investigations for insufficient money-lending to high-risk minority...
(Headline USA) The "Rich Men North of Richmond" may have a backdoor plan to keep their jobs in November---by meddling with the mail service.
Ahead of an election where, once again, Democrats---and even some Republicans---are embracing the widespread use of mail-in voting, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be asleep...
(Headline USA) A push in Maryland's legislature for hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and fees has some Democrats concerned that the package may bolster Republican former Gov. Larry Hogan’s campaign for U.S. Senate and cost the party its already-narrow majority.
While a Republican hasn’t won a Senate race...
(Headline USA) The Vermont Legislature advanced legislation this week requiring big fossil fuel companies pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other natural disasters.
The Democrat-led state Senate, which includes only seven Republicans among its 30 members, was...
(Headline USA) With little else to run on, Biden Democrats have resorted to the lowest and most desperate tactics imaginable in a last-ditch bid to pad their numbers.
While President Joe Biden's top talking point may be fearmongering about the existential threat that democracy faces if he is not re-elected,...
(Headline USA) A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics.
Nexus Services must pay roughly $231 million in restitution as well as penalties of $13.8 million to...
(Headline USA) Last year, President Joe Biden hadn’t even spoken a word at the White House celebration of Ramadan before someone shouted out “we love you." Hundreds of Muslims were there to mark the end of the holy month that requires fasting from sunrise to sunset.
There are no such...
(Headline USA) The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children.
Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court...
(National Legal and Policy Center) At the annual shareholder meeting of the Walt Disney Company on Wednesday, one of its shareholders, National Legal and Policy Center, teamed up with healthcare accountability group Do No Harm to present a proposal addressing the hypocrisy in the woke company's transgender policy and...
(Headline USA) Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser.
The massive housecleaning comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search giant of illegal surveillance.
The...
(Headline USA) Ron Eller won a Republican primary runoff Tuesday in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District and will face longtime Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson in the Nov. 5 general election.
Eller, who is a military veteran and physician assistant, defeated Andrew Scott Smith, who has worked in farming and commercial real...