(Headline USA) Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, despite being fully vaccinated, his office said.
"Governor Abbott is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, in good health, and currently experiencing no symptoms," spokesman Mark Miner said a statement.
The positive tests comes a day after Abbott tweeted a...
(Headline USA) The dean of the school of journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who led the effort to bring woke "1619 Project" author Nikole Hannah--Jones to her faculty, announced Tuesday she is stepping down, not long after resistance from the school's trustees sent the...
(Headline USA) An order by the Tennessee governor letting parents opt their children out of following mask rules at school has drawn defiance from officials in Memphis and Nashville, including a pledge Tuesday from Nashville's district attorney not to prosecute teachers and school officials for flouting the carveout during...
(Headline USA) House Democrats on Tuesday put forward a new proposal to update the antiquated Voting Rights Act after seeing it stripped by a 2013 Supreme Court decision and failing in another recent effort to seize federal control of state elections.
However, amid the fallout from their failed power grab,...
(Headline USA) Top Democrats plan House votes next week on a controversial budget resolution that could clear a path for future passage of a massive $3.5 trillion spending spree, shrugging off the pleas from vulnerable party centrists who first wish to pass the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Party radicals wish...
A United Nations Children’s Fund official said on Tuesday that he was “optimistic” about Afghanistan's future after Taliban leaders claimed they would support girls’ education.
Mustapha Ben Messaoud, UNICEF’s chief of field operations in the region, said he visited with Taliban representatives who told him they plan to leave schools...
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently denied an emergency request to bar Indiana University from requiring faculty, staff and students to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Now, some speculate that Barrett's decision involving the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals could have a broader reach, potentially impacting NCAA athletics nationwide, Sportico.com...
A former Tennessee health official who was fired, in part, for encouraging teens to vaccinate without their parents' knowledge has been implicated in a hoax over a supposed threat she received for going public.
According to an official investigation, Michelle Fiscus purchased a dog muzzle that she claimed had been...
Left-wing anchors in the mainstream media turned against President Joe Biden's administration this week over the avoidable 11th-hour scramble to evacuate Americans and their allies from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Among the horrifying scenes reported were those of Afghan citizens desperately clustering around outbound planes at the Kabul airport.
Some clung to the...
President Joe Biden's State Department spokesman, Ned Price, asked the Taliban to create an "inclusive" government that guarantees full citizenship for women, the National File reported.
"Additionally, the UN Security Council issued a joint press statement earlier today calling for a new government that is united, inclusive, and representative, including...
United States health officials in the Biden Administration are expected to push a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, eight months after the first two, the Associated Press reported.
So-called health experts now believe that additional vaccine protection is needed, particularly as they play up the danger of the Delta...
(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) After two decades of war, the US occupation of Afghanistan finally came to an end.
“As of Sunday afternoon, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had fled his nation,” NPR reported, “the Taliban were on the verge of once again running the country, and President Biden authorized...