(Headline USA) In Florida, for the first time in modern history, registered Republican voters outnumber Democrats.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is heading into a reelection campaign buoyed by a national profile and a cash reserve unmatched by any Democratic challenger. And Republicans control virtually all of state government.
When Democrats met...
(Headline USA) Exasperated by the apparently airtight legal maneuvers used in Texas's recent heartbeat law, blue-state Democrats are now trying desperately to derail the effort by threatening the same tactics to enact their own priorities---while potentially flouting constitutional rights in the process.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday pledged to...
(Headline USA) Government reports on rising inflation and the potential costs of President Joe Biden's social and environment legislation raised fresh questions Friday about the bill's fate, with both sides hoping the new numbers would influence pivotal Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
Manchin has spent months forcing Democrats to trim the...
(Headline USA) Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco's people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago.
But after repeatedly clearing away used needles, other drug paraphernalia and human feces outside the bar she manages, and too many encounters with armed people in crisis, her...
(Headline USA) Heads up, future space travelers: No more commercial astronaut wings will be awarded from the Federal Aviation Administration after this year.
The FAA said Friday it's clipping its astronaut wings because too many people are now launching into space and it's getting out of the astronaut designation business...
(Headline USA) Although a certain Massachusetts senator was able to pull it off for decades with impunity, two Seattle-based artists are finding that there are consequences to falsely appropriating Native American heritage for profit.
Lewis Anthony Rath, 52, of Maple Falls, and Jerry Chris Van Dyke, 67, are facing federal...
(Headline USA) A Navy commander has been fired from his job as the executive officer of a warship because he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine as required and refused to be tested for the virus, Navy officials said Friday.
Cmdr. Lucian Kins was relieved of his duties Friday as...
(Headline USA) A woman has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing more than $300,000 in merchandise from retail stores in California.
Ekaterina Zharkova, 38, was arrested last month after an investigator with the California Highway Patrol’s Organized Retail Theft task force saw her stealing from a Nordstrom Rack...
(Headline USA) The president of California’s medical board, which issues medical licenses and disciplines doctors, complained that a group of anti-vaccine activists stalked her at home and followed her to her office---where four men confronted her in a dark parking garage in what she described as a terrifying experience.
Kristina...
(Associated Press) The adjutant general of the Oklahoma National Guard is warning its members.
Refusing to receive the coronavirus vaccine could end their military careers.
In a letter posted on the state Guard's website dated Thursday, Brig. Gen. Thomas Mancino said Oklahoma Army and Air Force members will eventually be subject...
(The Center Square) – A federal appeals court in Ohio will consider a Biden administration court filing aimed at dissolving a nationwide injunction that derailed the administration’s COVID-19 private employer vaccination mandate.
Friday's filing was a response to a Louisiana businessman’s motion to shoot down the government’s attempt to vacate...
(Associated Press) Grammy-winning musician Pharrell Williams on Saturday told the newest graduates of a historically Black university in Virginia to act like "the emerging majority" and help develop the area's businesses and culture.
Williams gave the fall commencement speech at Norfolk State University, not far from where the producer and...