Democrat San Francisco Mayor London Breed will pay nearly $23,000 in fines for a number of ethics violations.
Breed must pay $22,792 if the city’s Ethics Commission approves the fine at its next meeting.
Commission members have alleged that Breed --- along with several family members --- inappropriately lobbied former California...
(Headline USA) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new eviction moratorium that would last until Oct. 3, as the Biden administration sought to quell intensifying criticism from progressives that it was allowing vulnerable renters to lose their homes during a pandemic.
The ban announced Tuesday could help keep...
Two Democrats who are absent from the Texas legislature to ostensibly protest GOP attempts to reform voting in the state, are instead vacationing in Portugal, according to the Texas Tribune.
State Reps. Julie Johnson and Jessica González are with their significant others in Europe because they had “non-refundable” tickets, according...
I've never been a great fan of the Olympics---that quadrennial parade of fleeting patriotism for mostly unfamiliar sports, involving athletes who will, even in the best-case scenario of winning the gold, fade back into irrelevance after their 15 minutes have passed.
The growing politicization (and likely corruption) of the games,...
(Headline USA) A federal judge Tuesday blocked Texas from allowing state troopers to stop vehicles carrying illegal immigrants on the grounds that they may spread COVID-19 as worries and new cases rise along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The temporary order by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone of El Paso is at least...
(Headline USA) Voters in Seattle’s mayoral primary on Tuesday set up a choice between candidates representing activist-left residents and slightly less strident progressives, in one of the nation’s most liberal cities.
Bruce Harrell, a former City Council member who has called for hiring more police officers to stem a rise in...
(Headline USA) The party for the nation's 44th president will go on, but only for family and close friends.
Former president Barack Obama has scaled back his 60th birthday bash set for this weekend at his opulent Martha's Vineyard home off the Massachusetts coast after a public backlash on social media...
(Headline USA) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he made good on his promise to pardon a couple who gained notoriety for pointing guns at leftist, marauding trespassers as they marched past the couple's home in a gated St. Louis neighborhood last year.
Parson, a Republican, on Friday pardoned Mark...
(Associated Press) Mike Carey, a coal lobbyist backed by former President Donald Trump, beat a bevy of Republicans in central Ohio, while Cuyahoga County Council member Shontel Brown pulled out a victory for the Democratic establishment in Cleveland, in a pair of primary elections for open House seats Tuesday.
The special...
(Kerry McDonald, Foundation for Economic Education) On Monday, the Massachusetts Teachers Union unanimously voted to endorse mandatory mask-wearing for all students in preschool through college, calling on the governor to issue a mask order.
Teachers unions have recently advocated for required school masking in other states as well, and the head...
A reporter tried to bait Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday with a 'gotcha' question about a rise in hospitalizations for children as the state reportedly sees an uptick in coronavirus cases.
During an event at Shark Valley in the Everglades, the reporter asked about seven children at Joe...
(Bruce Walker, The Center Square) Three members of Congress from Michigan are asking the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a formal inquiry as to why the department dropped its investigation of nursing home deaths in the state.
The DOJ announced July 22 it would cease an...