The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Sunday that Dallas and San Antonio must obey Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order that banned local governments and other state institutions from imposing mask mandates, CNN reported.
Some local leaders, however, are ignoring the high court's order.
Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said he...
The mother of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S. Air Force veteran who was fatally shot during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has ignored her requests for answers regarding her daughter’s death --- just like Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Micki Witthoeft, a California resident, said she has...
After facing several several legal setbacks in his effort to hold leftist media and social-media sites accountable for false reporting, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., received a small but significant victory in a libel lawsuit against the Washington Post.
A Washington, DC-based district-court judge allowed discovery to proceed in a case...
(Jack Birle, The Center Square) The recently passed U.S. Senate infrastructure bill includes controversial provisions such as a vehicle per-mile user fee pilot program as the bill faces uncertainty in the U.S. House.
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes $550 billion of new spending, passed in the Senate on Tuesday...
(Headline USA) U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton told a crowd of about 4,000 Republicans that former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt plans to run for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
He and other Republican luminaries revved up a crowd gathered at a rural Nevada cattle ranch...
(Headline USA) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed a procedural vote this month that would set up future passage of two massive spending bills crucial to President Joe Biden's domestic agenda.
Democratic leaders hope the plan will win must-have votes from unhappy party members.
In a letter Sunday to Democratic lawmakers,...
(Headline USA) The Biden administration has approved a significant and permanent increase in the levels of food stamp assistance available to one-in-eight Americans—the largest single increase in the program's history.
Starting in October, average benefits for food stamps (officially known as the SNAP program) will rise more than 25 percent...
(Headline USA) The director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday the U.S. could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to Americans this fall.
Among the first to receive them could be health care workers, nursing home residents and other older Americans.
Dr. Francis...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials were stunned on Sunday by the pace of the Taliban's nearly complete takeover of Afghanistan, as the planned withdrawal of American forces urgently became a mission to ensure a safe evacuation.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the nation as the...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of U.S. troops to ensure what Biden called an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel.
But the move came just as the Taliban, after swiftly taking over...
(Headline USA) As the crisis at the southern border continues to grow worse, a federal judge has overturned a controversial Biden immigration policy that will have major implications for the border crisis.
U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that the Biden administration must reinstate the "Remain in Mexico" policy,...
(Headline USA) A rapidly growing number of places across the U.S. are requiring people to show proof they have been inoculated against COVID-19 to teach school, work at a hospital, see a concert or eat inside a restaurant.
Meanwhile, Democrats are planning to deploy the National Guard in what many...