(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Federal and state COVID-19 vaccine mandates are exacerbating a nursing shortage in California.
The recent federal mandate requires health care workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-funded hospitals to take the COVID-19 vaccines or the facilities where they work would lose federal funding. The order has resulted in...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) Results from the 2020 census showed California’s population losses led to the state shedding a member of Congress for the first time since inception.
The California Department of Finance announced in May that California’s population fell for the first time, dropping by more than 182,000 people in...
(Project Veritas) Project Veritas released the third video of its COVID vaccine investigative series today exposing two Johnson & Johnson officials, who argue children do not need to take the COVID vaccine in part because of the potential long-term side effects.
One of the exposed J&J employees, a scientist...
(Associated Press) The nation's largest school district can immediately impose a vaccine mandate on its teachers and other workers, after all, a federal appeals panel decided Monday, leading lawyers for teachers to say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
The city’s Department of Education said the mandate would now...
(Associated Press) Republican senators blocked a bill to keep the government operating and allow federal borrowing, but Democrats aiming to avert a shutdown pledged to try again — at the same time pressing ahead on President Joe Biden’s big plans to reshape government.
The efforts are not necessarily linked, but the...
(Headline USA) Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is preparing to tell Congress that the current spike in U.S. inflation has proven to be larger and more long-lasting than expected.
But, in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday, he says that if inflation does not abate, the Fed is ready to use...
House Republicans are demanding that intelligence officials reveal the identities of the scientists behind a recent report on the origins of COVID-19, which downplayed the theory that COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab.
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said lawmakers cannot have any...
(Headline USA) A wave of activist judges, including ones in Iowa and Arizona, issued rulings to block efforts by the state legislatures and governors imposing pro-freedom bans on mask mandates in public facilities including schools.
However, Tennessee's Attorney General Herbert Slatery signaled that he was leading the legal charged to...
Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, a candidate for the Miami Beach Commission, falsely claimed last week that she was the "most high-profile Hispanic Democrat in the city," the Daily Beast reported.
After critics called her out on the claim, Gonzalez apologized, suggesting that it was all a misunderstanding.
"It is being reported that...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered Secretary of State Laurel M. Lee to investigate Facebook's role in interfering with state and local races, after an investigative report found that the Big Tech company has a two-tiered censorship policy.
"It’s no secret that Big Tech censors have long enforced their own rules...
(Headline USA) Richard Stuart, a longtime Republican state senator in Virginia, got three days' notice this summer to help pull together a weekday campaign event for Glenn Youngkin, the GOP candidate for governor.
To his surprise and delight, some 200 people showed up from across his district, which stretches from the...
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted this weekend that more than 12,000 Haitian migrants have been released into the U.S.
Nearly 12,400 people who crossed the border illegally into Del Rio, Texas will have their asylum claims heard by immigration judges, Mayorkas said.
Around 5,000 are still being processed,...