(Headline USA) Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serving current member of the Senate, said Monday he will not seek reelection next year to the seat he has held for eight terms.
Leahy, 81, said he and his wife, Marcelle, have concluded that “it is time to pass the...
(Headline USA) The Race-Hustling Rev. Jesse Jackson joined Ahmaud Arbery’s parents Monday at the trial of three Georgia men charged with murdering their son.
The intrusion prompted an unsuccessful request by a defense attorney to have the civil rights leader removed.
Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael armed themselves and...
(Headline USA) Twice-failed candidate Beto O’Rourke is running next year for governor of Texas, pursuing a blue breakthrough in America’s biggest red state after disappointing losses in 2018 and in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary.
O'Rourke's announcement Monday kicks off a third run for office in as many election cycles....
(Headline USA) Scottsdale police announced Saturday that they were investigating allegations against a school board president who the school district's superintendent has said allegedly distributed a dossier on some parents, including photos and personal finances.
The parents in question opposed Critical Race Theory, according to conservative investigative reporter Christopher Rufo,...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden has chosen as supervisor of his $1 trillion infrastructure plan Mitch Landrieu, who as New Orleans mayor pushed the city into recovery after the devastation from Hurricane Katrina.
Landrieu will be tasked with coordinating across federal agencies to work on roads, ports, bridges and airports,...
(Headline USA) Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping have slurped noodles together in Beijing.
They've shared deep thoughts about the meaning of America during an exchange on the Tibetan plateau.
They've gushed to U.S. business leaders about developing a sincere respect for each other.
The American president has held up his relationship...
(Headline USA) After disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein allegedly died by suicide behind bars, a judge invited his accusers to court to vent their anger at a man they called a coward for taking his own life to escape accountability for sexually abusing them.
The coming weeks will still see, in...
(Headline USA) Attorneys were set to make closing arguments Monday at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial in the shootings of three men during Antifa-led riots in Kenosha Wisconsin, the last word before a jury begins deliberating in a case that underscored Americans' bitter divisions on issues of guns, protests and policing.
Rittenhouse,...
(Headline USA) While some US Catholic bishops continue to denounce President Joe Biden for his pro-abortion stance, their conference as a whole is likely to avoid direct criticism of him at its upcoming national meeting.
The highest-profile agenda item is a proposed "teaching document" about the sacrament of Communion.
Months of...
(Headline USA) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the U.N. climate summit as a "game-changing agreement" that sounded the "death knell for coal power" on Sunday.
He added that his delight at the progress on fighting climate change was "tinged with disappointment."
Johnson said it was "beyond question" that the deal...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's top economic adviser expressed confidence Sunday that the White House's $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act will quickly pass the House this week, and it will "reduce deficits."
He said that approval couldn't come at a more urgent time as prices of consumer goods spike,...
(Headline USA) More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking cash to smuggle drugs and weapons, and supervisors stealing property such as tires...