(Headline USA) Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month from August 2020, the biggest annual gain since the Labor Department started calculating the 12-month number in 2010.
The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index — which measures inflationary pressures before they reach consumers — rose 0.7%...
With any luck, the US will emerge unscathed from the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks---avoiding a repeat of 2012, when terrorists took advantage of Barack Obama's feckless stewardship to siege the US Embassy in Libya.
Per tradition, I will take a moment on Saturday to remember a...
(Headline USA) The U.S. is doubling the fine for people who break the rule requiring masks on planes, trains and other forms of public transit that purports to slow the spread of COVID-19, with President Joe Biden warning Thursday that violators should “be prepared to pay.”
First-time offenders would face a...
(Headline USA) Twenty Democrat attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's new abortion law, arguing that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care.
“The effects of the law are not confined to limits on particular procedures...
(John Haughey, The Center Square) Another controversial 2021 bill adopted by Florida lawmakers during one of their most ideologically-charged legislative sessions in decades has been set aside by a judge.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker Thursday released a 90-page ruling declaring ‘The Combating Public Disorder Act,’ the anti-riot bill adopted along...
(Headline USA) Six black farmworkers in Mississippi say in a new lawsuit that their former employer brought laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work.
Mississippi...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) California’s largest school district is the first in the nation to require all eligible students to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
The Los Angeles Unified School District will require students age 12 and older to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 10, 2022, to continue in-person instruction.
Students who...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department has sued Texas over a new state law that creates severe civil penalties for most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution."
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the law is...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its masking guidance after one of the nation’s largest teachers unions threatened to publicly criticize the Biden administration, according to newly released emails obtained by watchdog group Americans for Public Trust.
The emails show that, in May, the National Education Association threatened...
UPDATE 9/9/21 5:30 pm: President Joe Biden threatened that any company employing more than 100 workers may be forced to require vaccinations or tests.
However, many remained skeptical that his overreach would pass constitutional muster.
.@POTUS’ vaccination decree is an all-out assault on private business, our civil liberties, and our entire...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the international community is disappointed that the Taliban, the terrorist organization now in charge of Afghanistan, is not forming an “inclusive” government.
"You know, I think the whole international community was hopeful that they would be inclusive as they kind of said they would be...
President Joe Biden evacuated tens of thousands of Afghan civilians who did not meet the refugee requirements while hundreds of American citizens and Afghan allies remain trapped in the Taliban regime.
The Biden administration airlifted 124,000 people from Afghanistan before he withdrew the U.S.’s military presence completely on Aug. 31,...