(Delphine Luneau, The Center Square) Vermont Gov. Phil Scott expressed support for President Joe Biden’s new vaccination mandates this week, making him a rare Republican to back the move.
Scott, who has frequently touted his state’s relatively high COVID-19 vaccination rate compared to the rest of the nation, shared his thoughts...
Coronavirus czar Dr. Anthony Fauci claimed President Joe Biden’s sweeping and constitutionally dubious employer vaccine mandate isn't extreme at all.
In fact, he says it's a “moderate" requirement.
The new rule, which requires employers with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccination or require weekly testing, is the result of Biden’s...
Republican lawmakers encouraged businesses to stand up to President Joe Biden’s employer vaccine mandate and refuse to comply.
Biden unveiled the new rule on Thursday, which requires employers with more than 100 employees to either mandate the coronavirus vaccines or weekly testing for employees who choose not to get vaccinated.
Rep....
Microsoft's search engine Bing was revealed in January to be blacklisting certain search terms---including, most notably, the term "Trump"---from its retail website.
Shortly thereafter, the term was restored in Bing's search queries.
But a recent follow-up investigation by Headline USA showed that "Trump" had since been re-banned and remained so, a...
(Headline USA) Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month from August 2020, the biggest annual gain since the Labor Department started calculating the 12-month number in 2010.
The Labor Department reported Friday that its producer price index — which measures inflationary pressures before they reach consumers — rose 0.7%...
With any luck, the US will emerge unscathed from the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks---avoiding a repeat of 2012, when terrorists took advantage of Barack Obama's feckless stewardship to siege the US Embassy in Libya.
Per tradition, I will take a moment on Saturday to remember a...
(Headline USA) The U.S. is doubling the fine for people who break the rule requiring masks on planes, trains and other forms of public transit that purports to slow the spread of COVID-19, with President Joe Biden warning Thursday that violators should “be prepared to pay.”
First-time offenders would face a...
(Headline USA) Twenty Democrat attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's new abortion law, arguing that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care.
“The effects of the law are not confined to limits on particular procedures...
(John Haughey, The Center Square) Another controversial 2021 bill adopted by Florida lawmakers during one of their most ideologically-charged legislative sessions in decades has been set aside by a judge.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker Thursday released a 90-page ruling declaring ‘The Combating Public Disorder Act,’ the anti-riot bill adopted along...
(Headline USA) Six black farmworkers in Mississippi say in a new lawsuit that their former employer brought laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work.
Mississippi...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) California’s largest school district is the first in the nation to require all eligible students to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
The Los Angeles Unified School District will require students age 12 and older to be fully vaccinated by Jan. 10, 2022, to continue in-person instruction.
Students who...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department has sued Texas over a new state law that creates severe civil penalties for most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution."
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Texas, asks a federal judge to declare that the law is...