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(Headline USA) New York City Mayor Eric Adams blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other leftists who claimed this week that a mentally ill man who was harassing residents on the subway was “murdered.” Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with a lengthy arrest record, was reportedly yelling at people...

(Headline USA) U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user data. As a result, The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order...

(Headline USA) Eighth grade student test scores in U.S. history and civics have declined significantly, according to new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The data, released on Wednesday, show the lowest scores in either subject since the tests were first administered in 1998. For U.S. history, scores...

(Headline USA) Donald Trump called a writer’s claims that he raped her at a Manhattan department store “the most ridiculous, disgusting story,” testifying in a deposition shown in court Wednesday that the allegations were “made up” and that the assault never happened. Lawyers for accuser E. Jean Carroll played about 30 minutes...

(Headline USA) Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama—at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, “parent after parent” came up to...

(Headline USA)  Brazil’s Federal Police searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone Wednesday in what they said was an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards. Several other locations also were searched and a half dozen people faced arrest, police said. The former president confirmed the search of...

(Headline USA) The World Health Organization says it has fired the scientist who led a high-profile delegation from the U.N. health agency to China two years ago to jointly look into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, citing sexual misconduct. Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO side of a joint...

(Headline USA) Donald Trump's lawyer said Thursday the former president will seek to move his New York criminal case to federal court, attempting avoid a state court trial that a Manhattan judge said he expects to hold early next year. Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, said at a hearing on an unrelated...

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) The Iowa Democratic Party has floated the idea of concealing its 2024 primary caucus results until President Joe Biden can score political points in more favorable states. Iowa Democrats said that they want to show a willingness to work with the Democratic National Committee on its...

(Headline USA) A Colorado teachers union passed a resolution last month condemning capitalism as a system that “inherently exploits children, public schools, land, labor, and resources.” At its 97th Annual Delegate Assembly in April, the members of the Colorado Education Association voted in favor of the resolution, which says, "We...

(Headline USA) Taking a page from the playbook of Democrat lawmakers---notably in a 2011 Wisconsin standoff and a 2021 attempt in Texas---Republican lawmakers in Oregon sought to forestall two radical blue-state bills by refusing to show up.  Partisan tensions in Oregon skyrocketed Wednesday after GOP state senators denied Democrats who...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) After a nearly four-month trial mired in controversy, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and three other members of the right-wing group were convicted Thursday of a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 presidential election. A jury in Washington,...