The cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew will not appear in the Space Jam sequel --- the original of which featured the Looney Tunes cast alongside NBA legend Michael Jordan --- because he "added to rape culture," HuffPost reported.
In an early cut of the animated and live-action film Space Jam: A...
(Headline USA) Republican state lawmakers are pushing for social media giants to face costly lawsuits for censoring content on their websites, taking aim at a federal law that prevents internet companies from being sued for removing posts.
GOP politicians in roughly two dozen states have introduced bills that would allow...
(Headline USA) A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs federal agencies to take a series of steps to deteriorate election integrity, a move that comes as congressional Democrats press for sweeping voting changes.
His plan was announced during a recorded address on the 56th commemoration of "Bloody Sunday,"...
(Headline USA) The two top Democrats in New York's legislature withdrew their support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday amid mounting allegations of sexual harassment and undercounting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins became the first senior Democrat in the state to say the three-term governor...
(Headline USA) The United States and South Korea have reached agreement in principle on a new arrangement for sharing the cost of the American troop presence.
The State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said the deal includes a "negotiated increase" in Seoul's share of the cost, but it provided no...
(Headline USA) With President Joe Biden on the verge of his first big legislative victory, a swing-vote Democrat said Sunday he's open to changing Senate rules that could allow for more party-line votes to push through other parts of the White House's agenda.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin said major...
(Associated Press) Swiss voters narrowly approved on Sunday a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas worn by Muslim women in the country and the ski masks and bandannas used by protesters.
The measure will outlaw covering one's face in public places like restaurants, sports stadiums, public...
UPDATE 6:30 AM 3/7/21: The Washington Post has reported about a second woman whose allegations of sexual harassment came out over the weekend, in addition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's three earlier accusers. From Fox News:
A former press aide to the governor, Karen Hinton, told The Washington Post that Cuomo summoned...
(Headline USA) Los Angeles county officials may give a black family a beachfront property that was seized from their ancestors nearly a century ago.
Manhattan Beach used eminent domain in 1924 to force Willa and Charles Bruce, the city's first black landowners, off the land where they lived, KABC-TV reported...
(Headline USA) Senate passage of the sweeping $1.9 trillion bailout bill Saturday puts President Joe Biden's top priority closer to becoming law.
"Lessons learned: If we have unity, we can do big things," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told The Associated Press in an interview after the vote.
The outcome...
(Headline USA) At least a hundred people gathered at the front of the Idaho Capitol on Saturday to burn masks in a protest against tyrannical mandates.
Some groups say mask mandates deny God-given and Constitutional rights. Health experts say, without evidence, that they help slow the spread of the disease.
Republican...
(Headline USA) As President Joe Biden's crisis of unaccompanied minors explodes at the border, the administration announced Friday that it planned to lift the cap on long-term detention centers, despite ongoing concerns about the spread of coronavirus among illegal immigrants.
A memo issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Health...