(Headline USA) The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the death of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to them — including through...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Virginia school board's appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban.
Over two dissenting votes, the justices left in place lower court rulings that found the policy unconstitutional.
The case involved former high school student "Gavin" Grimm, a biological female, who filed a...
(Headline USA) A federal judge ruled last week that Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert does not have to unblock a former Democratic Colorado state lawmaker from her personal Twitter account.
U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico said in his decision Thursday that Boebert, who represents the state's 3rd Congressional District,...
(Headline USA) The next book by former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is addressed to his fellow Republicans.
“Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of Joe Biden" will be published Nov. 16, Threshold Editions announced Monday.
Threshold, a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster,...
ESPN commentator Jalen Rose apologized for disrespecting “the game” over the weekend, but not to NBA star Kevin Love, after he claimed Love only made the U.S. Olympics basketball team because of “tokenism.”
"If I feel like Kevin Love should make the team or not, I’m entitled to my opinion,"...
(Headline USA) The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Tennessee’s first-of-its-kind law that requires businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let transgender people use multiperson public bathrooms of their choice, seeking to block the requirement from taking effect on July 1.
The ACLU and...
(Headline USA) Texas Democrat lawmakers, who blocked election integrity measures with a dramatic walkout, sued Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday, after he vetoed funds that cover thousands of Capitol paychecks that he said shouldn't be given “to those who quit their job early."
The lawsuit reflects the tensions that remain...
(Headline USA) The U.S. military, under the direction of President Joe Biden, conducted airstrikes Sunday against what it said were "facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups" near the border between Iraq and Syria.
The move had some wondering about the aggression in context of Biden's efforts to revive the Iran...
(Headline USA) When California Gov. Gavin Newsom was searching for a new attorney general earlier this year, state Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan looked up the job requirements and learned that the law often assumed the attorney general is a man.
Sprinkled throughout the state code were references to "he" and "him"...
(Headline USA) Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.
Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981,...
(Headline USA) A bipartisan deal to spend nearly $1 trillion on infrastructure appeared to be back on track Sunday after a stark walk-back by President Joe Biden.
Republican senators who brokered the agreement with the White House and Democrats to fund roads, bridges, water and broadband internet indicated they were...
(Headline USA) A closely watched voting rights dispute from Arizona is among five cases standing between the Supreme Court and its summer break.
But even before the justices wrap up their work, likely later this week, they could say whether they'll add more high-profile issues to what already promises to...