(Headline USA) A conservative Roman Catholic media outlet seeking to stage a rally during a U.S. bishops' meeting in Baltimore said left-wing city officials canceled the event because they disapproved of its religious message.
The city claimed the gathering posed a threat to public safety, accusing the group of cheering...
(Headline USA) With President Joe Biden's government overhaul at risk, Democrats confronted high-stakes trouble Thursday as a promised vote on the first piece, a slimmer $1 trillion public works bill, faltered amid stalled talks on his more ambitious package.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was meeting privately with factions of...
(Associated Press) Congress took a big step toward avoiding a partial federal shutdown on Thursday when the Senate passed a bill to keep the government funded through Dec. 3.
The House was expected to follow suit shortly.
The votes will help avert one crisis, but only delay another as the political parties...
(Coleman Hopkins, Headline USA) Former President Barack Obama slammed the current Biden administration's failure to secure the US--Mexico border, calling the current open-borders crisis "unsustainable" as crossings hit their highest level in at least two decades.
In an interview with ABC's Good Morning America, Obama appeared to undermine the present...
A recall effort against a socialist Seattle city councilwoman will move forward, according to the King County Elections agency.
Sawant is facing a recall because of her alleged misconduct during the Black Lives Matter-inspired race riots in 2020.
Demonstrators have entered Seattle City Hall. Speakers are addressing the crowd and are...
The Senate parliamentarian has rejected Democrats’ back-up plan for getting immigration reform---including amnesty for millions of undocumented residents---into a massive budget reconciliation bill.
Elizabeth MacDonough already nixed Democrats’ first proposal, which would have granted legal citizenship to nearly 8 million illegal immigrants.
Among those included in the proposal were so-called “Dreamers”...
(Headline USA) A group representing school board members around the country asked President Joe Biden on Thursday for federal assistance to investigate and stop "threats" made over policies including mask mandates, likening alleged vitriol to a form of domestic terrorism.
Parents and community members have been disrupting meetings and threatening board...
(Associated Press) Facing outrage over its handling of internal research on harm to teens from Instagram, a Facebook executive is telling Congress that the company is working to protect young people on its platforms.
And she disputes the way a recent newspaper story describes what the research shows.
“We have put in...
(Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., continues to add conditions Democrats must meet if they want him to vote for a budget reconciliation bill.
Manchin said on Wednesday that any spending bill that includes funding for Medicare must also include protections for the Hyde Amendment, a law that prohibits the federal...
(Headline USA) U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were told to get the coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1 or be fired, according to a whistleblower who informed the House Judiciary Committee of the order.
“The people who have been busting their tails, enforcing our law, doing their job on the border...
(Benjamin Yount, The Center Square) Wisconsin’s Assembly speaker is expecting to get a report on the 2020 election that shows there were issues that need to be addressed before future elections.
Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said he has faith that former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman’s probe will not be...
(Jon Hersey, Foundation for Economic Education) “Excuse me,” says your landscaper. “The mower’s out of juice. Mind if I plug in?” You look from the immobile machine to your half-cut lawn. “Outlet’s over there,” you tell him. “But let’s knock $20 off your fee? What are we up to now,...