(Headline USA) Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization's annual assembly on Monday with plans of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious---and highly controversial---“pandemic treaty” ran aground last week.
Health officials are racing to get the world to agree to new ways to prepare...
(Headline USA) The Libertarian Party on Sunday nominated party activist Chase Oliver for president, rejecting former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after they each spoke at the party's convention.
Oliver is an activist from Atlanta who previously ran for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House from Georgia....
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden offered a tone-deaf commemoration of Memorial Day that echoed the political tensions of the day with little attention to honoring the fallen soldiers for whom the holiday is dedicated.
The weekend began with Biden paying special recognition to another fallen hero of the Left: George...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Nineteen Republican attorneys general filed a Bill of Complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court, taking legal action against five Democratic-led states.
They argue these five Democratic-led state governments have “brought unprecedented litigation against the nation’s most vital energy companies for alleged ‘climate crisis,’ and they...
(Alan Wooten, The Center Square) – Citizenship in the United States by those voting in North Carolina is being sought in a constitutional amendment.
The proposal was filed Thursday by Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, chairman of the Rules Committee in the House of Representatives.
“Tightening our elections laws so that only...
(Headline USA) Progressive civic groups have challenged how four congressional districts and seven state House districts in South Florida were drawn by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature, claiming they were racially gerrymandered for Hispanics who are too diverse in Florida to be considered a protected minority.
The groups filed a lawsuit...
(Headline USA) A jury has awarded more than $1.1 million to an Idaho drag queen who accused a blogger of defaming him during a Pride event in June 2022.
The Kootenai County District Court jury unanimously found Friday that Summer Bushnell defamed Post Falls resident Eric Posey when she posted a...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – Venezuelan Tren de Aragua prison gang members are being arrested thousands of miles from the border after having illegally entered the U.S. in Texas.
The Venezuelan prison gang is well-known for orchestrating murders, bribery schemes and money laundering, drug and arms trafficking, and kidnappings...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a bill that would ban parental notification for gender changes in public TK-12 and provide more resources to increase parental support of LGBTQ pupils. While parents broadly support disclosure rules and have approved them in many school districts, state leaders,...
(Kenneth Schrupp, The Center Square) – The California Senate passed a bill strengthening penalties for child sex trafficking after Democrats added a clause making purchasing sex from 16- and 17-year-olds a misdemeanor and making buying sex from children 15 years or younger a "wobbler" that cannot include prison time.
A “wobbler”...
(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) - A $1.5 trillion Farm Bill supported by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representative has sparked criticism among Democrats for cutting $30 billion from the former food stamps program.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit costs, formerly known as food stamps, have increased from $55.6 billion...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) – U.S. House Democrats overwhelmingly voted to support noncitizens voting in U.S. elections.
The House voted Thursday on a bill filed by U.S. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, to block noncitizens from voting in District of Columbia local elections.
The bill would repeal a 2022 District of...