(Associated Press) Alaska wrongly denied some same-sex spouses benefits for years by claiming their unions were not recognized even after courts struck down gay marriage bans, court documents obtained by the Associated Press show.
The agency that determines eligibility for a yearly oil wealth check paid to nearly all Alaska residents...
(Headline USA) One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
The measure approved by the Washington Legislature bans for-profit detention centers in the state.
The only facility that meets that definition is the...
(Headline USA) Florida lawmakers moved closer to requiring transgender athletes to undergo testosterone or genetic testing---as well as submit to having their genitalia examined---to participate on sports teams in public schools and colleges.
The proposal in Florida, approved overwhelmingly Wednesday by the state's Republican-led House, is part of a continuing...
(Headline USA) As a pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine appeared to validate concerns over the safety of the coronavirus vaccine, southern states in the heart of MAGA country have led the way in resistance, despite former president Donald Trump's support for them.
Trump's Operation Warp Speed is credited...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wants to end his feud with former president Donald Trump, the Hill reported.
The feud escalated this past weekend when Trump called McConnell a "stone-cold loser" and a "dumb son of a b***h."
Trump's comments on McConnell came the evening after the National Republican Senatorial...
(Headline USA) Bernard Madoff, the disgraced former financier whose downfall during the financial crash of 2008 ruined thousands of investors, died behind bars early Wednesday.
Madoff, 82, was the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle that outfoxed regulators but eventually earned him a 150-year prison term.
Even among those who...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden on Monday nominated two critics of Trump-era immigration policies for key roles at the Department of Homeland Security.
The nominations come as the Biden administration faces a cascading border crisis of illegal immigrants---including many unaccompanied minors---attempting to enter the country along the Southwest border due...
(Headline USA) Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the siege at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Authorities had considered for months whether criminal charges were appropriate for the Capitol Police officer...
(Headline USA) A prosecutor said Wednesday that he will charge a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old black suspect Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of riots in clashes between protesters and police.
The charge against former Brooklyn Center police Officer Kim Potter...
(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris is planning a trip to Mexico and Guatemala as she leads the White House’s diplomatic efforts to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border.
Harris told reporters Wednesday that she was “looking forward to traveling, hopefully as my first trip, to the Northern...
A CNN director was caught boasting that the network removed former president Donald Trump from office by spreading propaganda.
BREAKING: Part 1 - @CNN Director ADMITS Network Engaged in ‘Propaganda’ to Remove Trump from Presidency … ‘Our Focus Was to Get Trump Out of Office’ … ‘I Came to CNN...
A new inspector general's report further shredded already debunked leftist narratives about the Jan. 6 uprising at the US Capitol.
Capitol Police Inspector General Michael A. Bolton submitted the 104-page document titled "Review of the Events Surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Takeover of the U.S. Capitol" in advance of testimony...