(Headline USA) California no longer will require physical distancing and will allow full capacity for businesses when the state reopens on June 15, the state's top health official said Friday.
"We're at a place with this pandemic where those requirements of the past are no longer needed for the foreseeable...
A federal district court judge ruled on Friday that the Dakota Access Pipeline can remain operational until the Army Corps of Engineers completes an Environmental Impact Statement.
The corps will finish the review in March 2022.
Native American tribes and environmentalist groups had tried to shut down the DAP because they...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden will host George Floyd's family at the White House Tuesday to mark the first year after his death.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday the president would mark the anniversary of Floyd's death, but offered no further details on his plans.
Floyd died on...
(Headline USA) The two Bureau of Prisons workers tasked with guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he died in a New York jail have admitted they falsified records, but they will skirt any time behind bars under a deal with federal prosecutors, authorities said Friday.
The prison workers, Tova Noel and...
(Headline USA) Apple CEO Tim Cook described the company's ironclad control over its mobile app store as the best way to serve and protect iPhone users, but he faced tough questions about competition issues from a judge Friday about allegations he oversees an illegal monopoly.
The rare courtroom appearance by...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced an amendment to SB 1260, the Endless Frontier Act, that would prohibit the federal government from financing gain-of-function research in China.
"We don’t know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally," said Paul, a medical doctor. "While Washington bureaucrats deny...
(Headline USA) Prospects for an ambitious infrastructure deal were thrown into serious doubt late Friday after the White House reduced President Joe Biden's sweeping proposal to $1.7 trillion.
Republican senators rejected the compromise as disappointing, saying "vast differences" remain.
While talks have not collapsed, the downbeat assessment is certain to mean...
(Headline USA) New York's attorney general said Friday that she's assigned two lawyers to work with the Manhattan district's attorney's office on a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump's business dealings.
Attorney General Letitia James said her office is working alongside and cooperating with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance...
(Headline USA) A judge on Friday agreed to unseal absentee ballots to allow for an audit of November election results in Georgia's most populous county.
Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero said the specifics of the audit of more than 145,000 absentee ballots from Fulton County would be outlined in...
(Associated Press) The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who've gotten their coronavirus shots.
The Biden administration said Friday it's teaming up with dating apps to showcase the benefits of getting a shot.
Apps like Hinge, Tinder, Match and Bumble are...
(Associated Press) Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney next year, disclosed that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, describing the relationship as “like the Romeo and Juliet” story and saying it was coming to light because of "dirty politics."
Bouchard...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The Texas Senate approved House Bill 1925, which would outlaw vagrant camping in public places across Texas.
The bill passed with bipartisan support in the Senate after passing the House on May 6.
The bill now heads back to the House to approve amendments added by the...