(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding, leaving in place a decision that she broke state anti-discrimination laws.
Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have agreed to hear...
(Casey Harper, The Center Square) One of the nation’s top labor and teachers unions is debating whether to call for the mandatory vaccination of all children before returning to school.
The organization already this week has agreed to support and lead campaigns to advance critical race theory.
The National Education Association, the...
Not one candidate who participated in Seattle's mayoral forum on Tuesday called for the city's police department to receive less funding, let alone to "defund the police."
Only last summer the Seattle City Council endorsed --- but did not ultimately adopt --- the radical proposal to cut the police department's budget by...
(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) While a handful of California officials deliberate on how to best divvy up a historic $75 billion budget overflow, gas-powered vehicle owners will be paying more to fill up their tanks.
The state’s motor fuel excise tax is set to increase Thursday, up six-tenths of a...
(Headline USA) California on Thursday scheduled a Sept. 14 recall election that could drive Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, the result of a political uprising largely driven by angst over state coronavirus orders that shuttered schools and businesses and upended life for millions of Californians.
Meanwhile, conservative talk show host...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., could lose her committee assignments since she accepted the appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to a Democrat-controlled select committee formed to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.
Cheney, who was recently ousted from her House Republican leadership...
President Joe Biden pushed the narrative that global warming might be responsible for the condominium collapse in Miami during his visit to the region this week.
Biden said it was “interesting” to him how many of the survivors, families of missing and dead residents, and rescuers allegedly raised “the impact...
(Headline USA) A judge on Thursday ruled in favor of a eight Minneapolis activists who sued the city council and mayor over funding the police force.
The order by Hennepin County District Judge Jamie L. Anderson requires that the city have at least 730 sworn officers on the payroll by the...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department is halting federal executions after a historic use of capital punishment by the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months.
Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement Thursday night, saying he was imposing a moratorium on federal executions while the Justice Department conducts...
UPDATE 7/2/21 7:00 AM: After a controversy over whether Nikole Hannah--Jones should be granted tenure as a full professor at the University of North Carolina, the 1619 Project author is not sure she will end up taking the job. From WRAL-TV in Raleigh:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones was supposed...
The Immigration Reform Law Institute on Thursday filed a lawsuit to end President Joe Biden's policy to catch and release illegal aliens at the US-Mexico border and to suspend internal immigration enforcement, according to a press release.
"The Biden policies we challenge here are as lawless as lawless can be," said...
UPDATE 7/2/21 6:45 AM via AP: The Los Angeles City Council passed a sweeping anti-camping measure Thursday to remove widespread homeless encampments that have become an eyesore across the city.
The measure was billed as a compassionate approach to get people off streets and restore access to public spaces in...