(Ted O'Neil, The Center Square) Leaked emails from within the Washington State Patrol show that all requests by troopers for a religious exemption to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have been denied.
According to The Jason Rantz Show on KTTH-AM770, one email reads, “At this time it has been confirmed that for...
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., estimates that about 500 Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan, contradicting the White House's claim that it left behind fewer than 200 Americans, The Epoch Times reported.
"Unless we continue and get the rest of our American citizens, and all those otherwise eligible out, we won’t have...
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden approved major disaster declarations Monday greenlighting federal aid for people in six New Jersey counties and five New York counties affected by devastating flooding last week from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.
At least 50 people were killed in six Eastern states as record rainfall...
(Headline USA) Police officers and other first responders are among those most hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine and they are resisting vaccine mandates.
No national statistics show the vaccination rate for America's entire population of first responders but individual police and fire departments across the country report figures far...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department said Monday that it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law that bans most abortions.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Justice Department would "protect those...
(Headline USA) A towering statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is set to come down on Wednesday, more than 130 years after it was built as a tribute to a Civil War hero.
Lee is now widely seen as a symbol of racial injustice, state officials...
(Associated Press) The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee says some Americans who have been trying to get out of Afghanistan since the U.S. military left are sitting in airplanes at an airport ready to leave but the Taliban are not letting them take off.
Rep. Michael McCaul of...
(Associated Press) Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said Friday they will cover the legal fees of any driver who is sued under the new law prohibiting most abortions in Texas.
The Texas law bans abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity, usually around six weeks and often before women know...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) Afghan refugees looking to resettle in the U.S. are being discouraged from picking California as a destination, despite the state having significant Afghan population centers.
In the days after the U.S. announced it would resettle refugees fleeing a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, governors across the country...
(Associated Press) A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled Friday that Charlotte Catholic High...
(Headline USA) Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby's drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks.
"It doesn't call sick," says Amir Siddiqi, whose family...
(Headline USA) Back in the spring, a shortage of computer chips that had sent auto prices soaring appeared, finally, to be easing. Some relief for car buyers seemed to be in sight.
That hope has now dimmed. Asian countries that are the main producers of auto-grade chips have not been...